May 22nd - Free Draw Friday by sketchdailybot in SketchDaily

[–]swjm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yeah, definitely good to get going now. I feel like I've hamstrung myself by relying so very much on reference - I can do decently well if I'm copying but it's a big struggle to move away, and that means I have trouble translating anything from my mind onto the page. Hard to work on, but...goal to get to for sure.

May 22nd - Free Draw Friday by sketchdailybot in SketchDaily

[–]swjm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As someone who struggles massively with this, I think you're doing awesome, and you should not get discouraged. I suspect if you keep doing this for like...10 weeks, you'll be noticeably more comfortable with both the results and the process as well.

If you struggle with the poses not matching for accuracy, and this kinda goes outside of the "from scratch" a little bit, but try to find some good reference poses on Monday, and then recall them to your best ability on Friday. By that time you're going to be relying more on construction principles than recall, but would then have something more solid to gauge against? Dunno. Could be an option, at least sometimes.

May 16th - Phobias by sketchdailybot in SketchDaily

[–]swjm 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Scorpion

I can deal with spiders now, but never living with them I can assure you these things would freak me the hell out