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+title: 'Drawing week 01 - pencil illustrations'
+date: '2017-03-01'
+subtitle: Gotta start somewhere...
+tags:
+- Learning yourself to draw
+published: true
+---
+
+Also read [Learning yourself to draw](/post/learning-yourself-to-draw/).
+
+As you might already have read, I started the drawing adventure with a 10-week 'illustrative techniques' course. It sounds complicated but it wasn't really: it's more of a gentle introduction in different mediums (pencil, ink, acrylic paint, ...) than a crash course in drawing techniques. I didn't know then that to draw illustrations, you still have to be able to draw. (I'm reading "drawing at the right side of the brain" and I know better now). But still, thse drawings might be fun to look at or to compare to the other weeks. 
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+These are all random drawings I did between the lessons to get myself familiar with a pencil. That sounds awful, doesn't it? Who uses pencils anyway. The left scan contains some color: that's an experiment. The brown is **bistre**, something we had to work with in the second class. The other colors are very cheap **pastels**. 
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+So, what did I learn this week:
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+1. Bistre can be a bit of a mess. You absolutely cannot wait, edges will form and it'll be worse than watercolor. 
+2. Expensive tools **are** better than cheap ones. Pastels are softer and contain a lot more pigment than the ones you can find in sale bins. 
+3. I know the difference between a **HB** and a **B4** pencil. I know how to sharpen one. Yay. 
+4. These drawings look like doodles because they are a lot like doodles. I like drawing that but I have the feeling I'm missing a lot background info (will be continued...) 
+5. Patience looks like an important skill to aid me in learning how to draw.
+6. **Do not look at the work of others!**
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+I warned you:
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+This also is bistre. 
+Ouch. 

content/post/drawing-week-02.md

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+---
+title: 'Drawing week 02 - Art before breakfast'
+date: '2017-03-07'
+subtitle: So ballpoint pens are useful after all
+tags:
+- Learning yourself to draw
+published: true
+---
+
+Also read [Learning yourself to draw](/post/learning-yourself-to-draw/).
+
+After the illustration course, I'm not ashamed to admit I completely dropped the pencil out of the game. It creates lines easy to remove and that means I'm working on a drawing forever. I need something to commit myself to. That something is called ink. 
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+It also seems that I already have stuff to get ink on a paper: pens. Ballpoint pens. Black, blue, whatever. Just simple pens you use to write with - the cheaper, the better. I came across **Danny Gregory**'s work [Art before breakfast](https://dannygregorysblog.com/books/art-before-breakfast/) and [The Creative Licence](http://www.dannygregory.com/author) (buy the latter one if you can). These are very inspirational books that get you kickstarted drawing from zero by learning how to see, explaning negative space and other simple techniques. It doesn't go into detail, it simply helps you get drawing. 
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+And Danny is a fan of ink + watercolor. I immediately fell in love and knew that was what I wanted. So yes, put that pencil back where it belongs. I started trying to draw what I see:
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+It looks a lot brighter than [week 1](/post/drawing-week-01). After drawing with a pen a few times, it felt better and better. I tried to copy Danny's style a bit by giving it some (water)color but that might be too much new stuff within a few weeks. 
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+I'm particulary fond of the yellow post-it note: an impression of my left foot while waiting for my wife to finish shopping. I keep pen & paper with me at all times: that's a healthy habit I developed 7 years ago when starting journaling. 
+The first foot trace was a complete disaster by the way. 
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+So, what did I learn this week:
+
+1. Pen > pencil.
+2. Danny Gregory rocks. He has tons of books and is co-founder of the [Sketchbook Skool](http://sketchbookskool.com/). Once I knew that, I enrolled in the "beginning" kourse. 
+3. I like sketching more than doodling. 
+4. "Seeing" is incredibly hard: I constantly mess up proportions.
+5. Adding watercolor seems to add a lot of dimension. 
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+Let's take a look at what Danny does:
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+Awesome. 
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content/post/drawing-week-03.md

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+---
+title: 'Drawing week 03 - Fineliners and texture'
+date: '2017-03-12'
+subtitle: The fine discovery of Skillshare
+tags:
+- Learning yourself to draw
+published: true
+---
+
+Also read [Learning yourself to draw](/post/learning-yourself-to-draw/).
+
+I wanted to continue my quest of finding my own style within ink and watercolor boundaries. After the amazing discovery of [Skillshare.com](https://www.skillshare.com), I switched to using Artline fineliners. I also have some Steadlers but hardly notice any difference between different felt tip pens if they have the same thickness. I found a short course by Shirish Deshpande on drawing with ink and creating some contrast and texture. The drawings in the videos are amazing and I tried to copy them to my best abilities:
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+The ink flowing from a technical pen is much more intense than a standard ballpoint pen as seen in [week 2](/post/drawing-week-02). I like that a lot. It also enables me to be much more precise and that is something that I tend to do a lot. I usually draw (too) small and try to cram in as much details as possible. The thinner the felt tip pen, the better for me. (Although I borked a 005 one, those guys are very sensitive!). 
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+During the snow & rose course, the lesson with the fineliners suited me the most, and now I have that same feeling. I finally give (cross-)hatching a shot and it really looks a lot better. Thanks Shirish, for building up my confidence in drawing with ink! 
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+So, what did I learn this week:
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+1. Intensity of ink matters.
+2. Contrast is extermely important and gives your drawing an "oomph"
+3. I learned the "hatching", "stipling", and "random" technique. 
+4. Fineliners > ballpoint pens > pencils (sensing a trend here, fountain pen coming up)
+
+Let's take a look at what Shirish does with his pens (and added colored ink):
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+He usually doesn't color with watercolor but with (diluted) colored ink. I have yet to try that. 

content/post/learning-yourself-to-draw.md

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 title: Learning yourself to draw
-date: '2017-03-06'
+date: '2017-02-01'
 subtitle: A year of spilling lots of ink
 tags:
 - Learning yourself to draw
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 These are some christmas-themed cards I made with cheap pastels during the third lesson:
 
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 It starts out very simple, as you can see. I'm still having difficulties buying the right equipment. The pastels used above are very hard and grainy, and don't contain a lot of pigment. That is clearly visible in the gameboy one on the far left: the brown paper shouldn't be that visible. Small steps, small steps... 
 

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