W24 - 30 - FO - No F's Were Given!

Had a headache so went to bed after work around threeish on Sunday. Started sketching poses around ten or twelve that night.

When I started drawing I was playing with how I held the pencil. Switching between a "sketching grip" and a writing grip. I was trying to look at the reference and capture its feeling and less trying to copy the image. I did try and pen over one of my sketches but the ball point has no fading so I kinda killed my sketch. As I got over how strange and kind good it felt to sketch with a new grip I started working toward confident lines were no f***'s were given to how crappy the result looked.

Here I started getting comfortable with the grip and what I'm trying to accomplish. I feel my lines are getting more fluid and less jagged. Making one mark for the gesture and not retracing it over and ever for the right line. Nor did I use my eraser in any if the drawings. Graphite went down and stayed down. You can see little after thought notes of the poses I was pushing. I was trying not to think while sketching from the reference and just going with what I felt I was seeing. Then analyzing it afterwards.

I started to loose steam here around three or four in the morning. Pushing Walking poses is strange. I was trying to instil what I thought walking should look like and couldn't stop doing it. I managed to dew a few more sketches before running completely out of juice. I Finally broke the rules of the session on my last few sketches at the bottom and used my eraser, so I stopping drawing.

I did a quick light study of an image at 25% in photoshop. The top is what I was working with, the bottom is the full size of the image. After finishing I played some Guacamelee for a while before heading to bed.

I must say that this felt like a much longer endeavor than the poultry work shows. But I guess that means I was learning things yes?