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I am trying this year to post a weekly study. One a week will give me dozens of experiments in other styles I would never try and keep me from trapping myself in perfecting one copy for ages. I ran out of time on this one to finish the challenging (to me) background landscape.

sea discovery, Nokse Mojo

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Your girl is on Form Intersections

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I am really sad to realize my last homework (not including repeat exercises) was in April! I’m back on the game as part of my New Year’s resolutions and my goal is to finish the whole course this year. I’m going to do my homework before work every day so I stay consistent.

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Ok I moved right when I got back so this was a long delay, but it will soon be time to resume drawing

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I’m going on vacation but when I come back I will slay the dragon (Drawabox Lesson 2)

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I am bored of this piece which was too ambitious for me which is my curse so I am just gonna check it in and maybe one day I will want to paint hair

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“Does it hurt, Naminé? Watching your two childhood friends fight all because of you? You have my sympathies. From the heart.”

Drawing one of my favorite scenes from Chain of Memories! In the novel, they are looking into the ball together at Riku during this line.

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So the texture exercise takes a lot of effort and I have been stuck on it for a month… I think I will try doing one texture a day so I don’t feel overwhelmed. Slow and steady wins the race

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SO it has come to my attention that one of the reasons it’s so easy to get burnt out on drawabox (or trying to learn drawing generally) is that we want to make PERFECT art that has a satisfying end result. And you just aren’t gonna get that very much as a beginner. So (at least for me) there is an aversion to drawing the things you want to draw because you don’t want to see them ugly, so then you draw things you don’t care so much about... but then you don’t put as much effort into them and don’t have fun. I had sooo much fun drawing fanart for fakiru week and put a lot of effort into it. Not so much fun drawing random things just to “do the 50% rule.” The 50% rule should be about drawing stuff I love! So I will be putting more effort into making sure that I’m trying to draw things that excite me. Even if it means “breaking” drawing rules, this is to keep me motivated and exploring.

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More 50% rule and playing with digital art

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It’s a miracle anyone makes art with traditional media cause I can’t even make a not wonky digital cylinder

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This is my terrible cityscape LOL. I’m trying to take the drawabox 50% rule seriously but it’s hard because I don’t enjoy making really crappy stuff and I feel I’m spending time learning nothing. I’m hoping to find time to do more lessons that I can apply to this free draw time.

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WAIT I FORGOT TO SAY I DID ALL MY BOXES

On to LESSON 2 (!!!) later this week!

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He’s a bird and a fish crossed together idk don’t ask me

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I passed 200! 250 here I come!

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My boxes are recovering after my hiatus! This time I’m gonna get to 250!