Art Getting Better - An Exercise

[yakiimo]

Sounds presumptuous, doesn't it? Well, we all want to get better at our art, right? The best advice I've ever gotten was this:

Fill one page of a sketchbook every day. Both sides.

It actually really works. I'll take a blank piece of paper and just draw. I won't have anything specific in mind. I'll just start to draw. Usually expressions or eyeballs or disembodied hands. I'll fill up the sketchbook, draw anything and everything to fill up every section of white I can possibly find!

I started to see my mistakes and worked hard to overcome them. Or at least start the climb.

There are two examples attached because they're too huge to post up this way. It'd make you have to scroll horizontal and I can't stand that.

Anyway. I want to give all you aspiring artists out there the chance to post your sketches! People are always ready to post their completed works, but what about the steps in between? The sketch, the ink, the sketch that was tossed?

Post those here and show everyone your progress! I'm sure there are others out there like you and willing to critique your work!

Let's work together to help improve our art!

[eleanor]

[font=trebuchet ms] Sweet, I really like this thread. Here's my sketches for today:

[img]http://i36.tinypic.com/25f7d4z.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i33.tinypic.com/11cgv13.jpg[/img]

Sort of bare, but today was a tiring day.[/font]