A Hazy Sketchbook

First of all, thank you so much for the course! It has been a long journey.

Among a lot of things that this course had taught me, the most important thing I learned is probably that's normal to feel dread when I start drawing and it's okay if I don't like my drawings.

After the 4 weeks I kinda understand how drawing from observations can help with my other drawings. The point is that when drawing from observations I don't need to copy all the information because there are simply too much, just need to take the informations that I want or catch my eye.

I really had a lot of fun too.

So here are my sketchbook cover and some drawings

Week 1. Human and living environment

I totally relate to what you said about every time you draw live, it feels like a mistake. I drew these from live music videos on youtube, it was so hard to do when people keep moving... So I decided not to care too much about the accuracy and just draw what i see.

I tried to capture the whole stage along with the audience. It was quite difficult because there are many things to draw.

Live music again... The instruments make it kinda hard for me to see the full body so I just leave them like that. Now looking back, I like how I can kinda see the differences in their personalities.

Week 2. Inanimate objects

I made these while looking at a stuffed animals picture. The original picture has a lot of animals and it was too much so I only drew these two.

Also from a photo reference. I like their expressions and also the lines I made with black colored pencil. Using a black color pencil is really nice. Love how it acts like a pencil without smudging all over the places.

Some objects lying around my houses. I like the composition of this one

Week 3. Drawing from imagination

It kind of blew my mind when you said that we don't have to try to imagine something brand new and just need to draw whatever comes up. Drawing the birds in the right page was pretty fun. I thought about how some of them have different personalities.

The right page is an attempt to make figures with personalities only by changing their shape.

So I found that all the humans I draw don't have a consistent style, while I know now that I shouldn't care that much about style, I'm a bit.. confused about what style I should draw when drawing things from my imagination so I drew some different faces in different styles.

The contrast of one big face on the left page and a bunch of pages in the right page is quite nice, i think.

The cut of the green ring was created when i accidentally spill some water on my sketchbook. It was a happy accident (?)

Week 4. Narrative

I'm not quite sure if I truly understand the word narrative. I just try to put personalities in my characters.

In this drawing, I draw the flower first, and then I want to draw a man next to it (I was looking at a lot of Saul Steinberg's drawings during that day so the face kinda got influenced). And then I think it'd be funny to make a serious dude dancing with a flower.

I don't like the style in this drawing very much. But the scene look pretty warm.

Naming the book was fun. The name is from a web novel that I read.

Finally, a penguin and.. Aladdin!

That's it. Thank you again, I shall continue to draw and listen to the mindset lesson!

Also if you have any feedback, I'd really appreciate it!