More drawings

I've been sick for the past week and a half so I have not been drawing as much as I should be. I had to missed my Portraiture class on Wednesday since I couldn't stop coughing =[ I just hope my professor won't be mad at me when I go to class next week. I have some more drawings from that class and also some homework I did. I'm still trying to work through "The Natural Way to Draw" (just finished schedule 1D!) slowly, but surely. The contour drawings are a pain in the neck; I can't seem to concentrate on drawing them for an hour. I did manage to do another exercise from "Keys to Drawing" which I shall post.

I got two new books in the mail the other day: "Perspective Made Easy" by Ernest R. Norling and "Complete Guide to Life Drawing" by Gottfried Bammes. I know I really should work through the stack of books I already have, but it's so hard to resist getting a new book.

Since no one really reads this blog, I'm not going to bother cropping/fixing up the photos of my drawings. I'm feeling very lazy at the moment. Sorry for the crappy quality.

Self-Portrait from a "Keys to Drawing" exercise 

 From a cast of Augustus Caesar

 Model from class

 Mah boyfriend

 My mom

 Self-portrait

I'm really hoping that I will see some improvement by the end of this year. 

Finally updating!

Sheesh, it's been forever since I last posted. I got some copic markers and promarkers a few months ago and I love them so far. I'm still getting used to them and I'm all too aware that I really have no idea what I'm doing when I color haha. I just finished the picture below the other day and it kinda, sorta sucks really bad. I have no idea what the dude on the right is wearing or where the rest of his body went lulz. There's still so much I need to improve on ;_; 

A little over a week ago I decided to start working through "The Natural Way to Draw" by Kimon Nicolaides. I'm still in the first section of the book. I just finished schedule 1C earlier today. I really hate doing the contour drawings. No matter what I can't seem to draw slow enough nor for as long as I'm required to. I was supposed to do an hour long contour drawing today, but I only drew for 45 minutes. Hopefully I will get into the groove of things as I get further into the book. I don't mind the gesture drawings though. I'm used to those. Here are the majority of the drawings from it:

Since I don't have regular access to a model (except my boyfriend for some of the drawings), I've been using the pixelovely gesture drawing tool for the gestures and whatever objects are laying around my house for the contour drawings. I apologize for the crappy picture quality. These are too big for my scanner so I had to use my phone to take them. 

I really hope that by the time I finish the book (most likely a little longer than a year) I will I have made some noticeable improvement and maybe I will be able to get started on a webcomic =] I just have to make sure I keep up with the exercises in the book.