These People are Boring

So, my Person-A-Day project has dwindled down to a...um... Person-every-so-often. It comes back to my usual problem. I can never think of anything for my subjects to be doing. So they just stand there. Staring. I have more like them to post and I'll scan them but...urgh!

Person A Day 1-31-12

These are not in order, I've been somewhat lax about dating my daily people. Need to start doing that. Also, the gap between 1-16 and 1-20, I did some digital drawings but they aren't done yet. Stay tuned :D

Person A Day Project

I came across this great tutorial by Teesha Moore (thanks Pinterest!) and it has really helped me a LOT. Anyone who knows me knows that my people drawing skills are not up to snuff. (How high up is snuff anyway?) She starts with the eyes and draws the person around them. For some reason this works really well for me. Mind you my proportions are still wonky but overall I feel that I've improved!

Teesha's also doing a 'Drawing a Day' project which a lot of artists do. That isn't much of a challenge for me as I do about 1-3 drawings a day anyway. But it gave me the idea that I could improve my people drawing if I practiced them every day and so I am going to do a Person A Day and post them from time to time. I hadn't formally formed the idea until 3 days ago but I've been practicing since after Christmas. This first one is a sketch dump. I LOVE the girl in the middle left with the black boots and short curly 'do. She came out perfect except for her hands.

You know what's cool about this one is that one of my other drawings showed through when I scanned it and it looks like wallpaper.

Girl by a stone wall wearing a ruffled dress.

Yesterday and today's people, diggin' the zig zaggy sweater. I need to draw some guys.

Figure Practice

I've been doing some people practice lately.  I've found several tutorials that I think are extremely helpful Especially this one by Neon Dragon.  Setting up a body with 3 dimensions really makes a difference.

One exercise that was fun, in this tutorial by Jeinu, was to make a weird squiggly shape, and then make a face from it.  The guy in the upper right corner is one of those and I think he came out pretty interesting.  The cute lil' girl in between the spiral rings of the notebook was drawn by my daughter doing the same exercise.  The thing on her head is a hat that might have shrunk in the wash.  I also tried doing some old people and some homlier faces since these are harder to draw.