I recently started the 21 days challenge. Being amazing at finding excuses and procrastinating I had some issues starting and keeping it up, so in the end I made a schedule so I could cross off each day. It is still hard to be creative and draw when the mood isn’t up for it and might be even feeling ill. To have some drawing exercises to stick to I ended up using wysp a lot for trying to learn to get the main proportions down fast and this video was also helpful to get some inspiration for what to work on.

Unfortunately this only lasted 8 days since I had forgotten to take the easter break into account. My family had planned a skitrip in the mountains, Hardangervidda, where we walked from cottage to cottage for 5 days + 1 extra day for travelling. SO I will just have to start the challenge again after we come back.:) Still had some wonderful days in the mountains and got a bit sunburnt. Tricky in the mountains during easter where you can easily get sunbrunt even if u can’t see or feel the sun.

Anyway, I can’t say I noticed a massive improvement during the 8 days I managed to keep this up:P. However, I did notice it became easier to get something that looked like faces out of the wysp sessions. My focus was facial proportions and getting the lines down at the paper at the right places. So in the start I kept drawing after the timer had gone out, since I had barely gotten anything down on the paper. I thought it was more important to get the proportions right rather than the speed and hopefully the speed will come later on. I did set the timer per drawing on 5 minutes also for this reason, and eventually I did at least get some of the main features down before the timer ran out. So hopefully with a proper 21 days challenge I will get even better at this and drawing in general. Especially the faces from the front seems to be a weakness of mine as well as tilting of the heads. Under can be seen some of the drawings from this time period.

Sorry the quality, I don’t have a A3 scanner here.