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[drawing every day 2024 post seventy-six]: conceptual sketches

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A couple of conceptual sketches for a planned illustration for my story "Shadows of Titanium Rain." Not very intelligible at this stage, but this is a stage I need to get comfortable at so I am not simply drawing and hoping it turns out, but planning my drawing for it to become a success.

Drawing at a rate of once daily, posting every day.

-the Centaur

[drawing every day 2024 post seventy-five]: more wizardry

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Recreating front matter sketches from "Wizard: How to Draw". I like the inking technique they used on the toothy monkey-zombie dude in the bottom left, though it's hard to recreate with my portable art kit.

Drawing every day.

-the Centaur

[drawing every day 2024 post seventy-three]: random sketches

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More from the Wizard Basic Training How to Draw book. It surprises me how much I got out of doing the stick-man and outline sketches - they showed me limits of my existing practice (and conversely, how much I've progressed in other areas, like hand shape and arm length). Still, a lot of work to do.

Also, some superhero costumes REALLY look like lingerie in disguise. Just sayin'.

Drawing every day.

-the Centaur

[drawing every day 2024 post seventy-one]: expanding the reach

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For years I've been carrying about the book The Best of Wizard Basic Training: How to Draw: Getting Started, trying to make progress in it, and failing. But, my new methodical approach based on Goldman's book seems to be working, so I'm going to add the Wizzes into my drawing rotation. Let's see how it goes.

Frankly speaking, if I was to do it all over again, I'd start with the hands and feet, as they're the hardest part, and when you start trying to draw a person but can't finish it due to the hands and feet, it's hard to really feel that the drawing is done. I don't really feel that anymore, though I know I have a long ways to go.

Drawing every day, methodically, through a set of exercises.

-the Centaur

[drawing every day post sixty-nine]: more porsche practice

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Trying a continued focus on the shape of faces and position of eyes. I think it's getting better, though the tilt of the face is off a bit; at least it is decently proportioned and the eyes aren't all over the place.

This is the last of the Porsche character sheets in this series, and I'm going to dive in to finishing the hands and feet Goldman book before switching gears to faces. Still, this exercise turned out not too bad ... and I am now seven days ahead on drawing every day AND scheduling them for posting.

Drawing every day, on average, posting as far ahead as I can.

Next up: editing work on SPECTRAL IRON, Dakota Frost #7!

-the Centaur