This week was honestly just OK in terms of how much actual, tangible, exportable content I produced. I did pivot, as I have been doing recently, to exploring a different hard skill for practice purposes.

This week I started taking on digital sketches.

I worked exclusively on human faces and bodies because they are the first objects I think about when I sit down and start drawing.

I have to be honest, I don't have a consistent style with my drawing. I have a style for my motion design, my graphic design and my filmmaking. Heck, I have a style in my dang blog posting, but I haven't been able to figure out a style for drawing. To be self-critical for a second, I think this is basically because I just haven't given it enough practice. I'm hoping to change that with these little exercises.

I've been drawing since before I can remember. I turn to my sketchbook when I'm in a rut with other projects and it helps to just draw whatever is on my mind. But aside from a few brief moments in my adult life, drawing has mostly served to get me interested or assist me in making art in different disciplines. Drawing helps with story boarding for film or animation, it helps with planning out vector illustration, it helps with visualizing 3d models. Its always just helped me with other stuff. So I'm giving it a bit more a chance now. I hope that will give me an opportunity to develop my style a bit more and find what I like and what I'm good at (if anything).

Not much more to say on the subject. I like drawing faces, so I think I'll keep at that for the near future. Once I'm comfortable with that (or possibly once I get bored with it), I'll move on to drawing more bodies, objects or settings. Who knows, honestly? I certainly don't. Considering the medical issues I am working through this month, I do appreciate the low pressure/ low stakes nature of sketching.

By the way, in my head canon, this Elvish woman is an absolute beast with a bow an arrow and she can do that cool thing where she shoots two arrows at once and they each hit a different target. When it comes to fantasy warrior types, rangers are hands down my favorite. Hence why I'll always favor Faramir over Boromir, even though Boromir is undoubtedly a more complex and interesting character.

Can't turn my back on the bow mans.