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Day 5 - You suck at faces

Sketches inspired by today's random word— "Mist"

I'm hitting a wall today. I mean, I'm still motivated and all, but I can't for the life of me think of something useful to look-up.
This calls for a re-examination of my goal:
I'm going to research and implement one strategy a day. Just one thing that will help me find my mojo, and I'm going to blog about it.
So, "strategy".. entails what exactly? Nothing's holding me back from being creative and painting today. I mean, I already released my tablet from it's holding-cell and had fun drawing with it (the shitty-ness of my drawings is beside the point!).

The use of the word "strategy" as the center of my goal is the problem. Finding strategies is not the only thing that will help me find that mojo of mine and chuck Sir Nothing out the window.

My goal is need of refinement.

Instead of finding, implementing, and blogging about strategies, I should have said "methods". Within a process, methods can be strategies, actions, or even tools (if I remember correctly).

So my life-saving-method of the day (yes because my painting was indeed shitty), is to find new ways of rendering faces and .. work on faces. Paint faces today, dear.



Today's Sense-of-Accomplishment To-Do List

  • Find whatever fun references you prefer
  • Put them together in one image (to share here)
  • Read your SMARTER-Goals list if you feel overwhelmed
  • Create a step-by-step process image from the references
  • Blog it up


Resolve & Outcomes

I ended up with some dead looking schmuck on my screen, but at least (I think) I have a better understanding of why lights and shadows go where they go on faces. I mean I already had a general idea of the anatomy, but was never able to put a decently rendered face into a lit environment and make it blend. The references I found (shared below) are so beautiful and fun to look at, so don't laugh when you look at the messed up face I ended up with. I only had time to make that one before 3pm anyway!

It's really sad, how bad I've gotten. It makes me want to bury myself.

My collection of references. Found them all on Pinterest.. Sorry for not asking for permissions


My step-by-step, dead-schmuck, process drawing






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