I always carry some sort of camera around so that when I see something that interest me I can try and capture it. I don’t always take out the camera, and when I do I’m not always succesful. The photos that are join my collection of things I see.
Fourteen days of drawing every day
Succes! My second week of drawing every day is complete without missing a day. While I am not always entirely happy with the results, since most are quick sketches of trying new things, I am happy that I kept up with posting them to instagram. Here’s day eight to fourteen of my #draweveryday sketches:
Right now I’m trying to just keep doing it and move through the book on fashion illustration. I know they are not very fancy drawings and are basicly the minimum I could do each day. But I’m doing them. Getting more of a rhythm drawing more often is a good thing, even if I tend to make these at the last possible minute right before I turn in at night. I should probably work on starting them earlier in the day/evening, just so that when I am done with the month and don’t have to do them I am still used to drawing at a more manageable moment in the day. But the main thing is to keep doing them and make it a full month. 
The drawings of the first week are in this post.
A week of drawing every day
I have succesfully completed the first week of my draw every day for a month goal. I’d started this goal before but was missing too many days so I decided to start counting anew. And on the second day I though that posting my sketches to my instagram (and twitter and tumblr) would be a good stimulation to keep up with it.
So here is a collection of my first #draweveryday week, days two to seven! I didn’t post the first day, because I hadn’t decided to start posting them yet, and I didn’t really like that sketch anyway.
Except for day four all of these are based on examples in the book on fashion illustration I got a while back. My goal is to get good at all sorts of different poses so I can draw believable women bodies. I plan to keep going through the different chapters of the book so I will get better at drawing clothing as well.
Here is the goodreads for the Dutch edition that I got, and here is the English one (they haven’t been combined yet, which is someting only a Goodread Librarian can do.)
I still have trouble with hands and feet especially but I know there is a chapter on those coming up later in the book, so if it doesn’t take me too long to get there you’ll be seeing drawings of hands and feet as a part of my #draweveryday overview posts (which I plan to do for each week). I also feel like the legs I draw are too long, but this is sort of the case with the examples in the book too and I guess a consequense of stylized fashion ideals. Or maybe legs really are that long and I just don’t pay enough attention to them in real life. I also want to start trying some more ‘plus sized’ models, considering I want to be able to draw a more believable me.
On the swingset in beautiful weather
My nephew turned six and we celebrated that on one of the first real spring days at the end of april. The kids were happily playing outside and I captured them with my Olympus Trip 35 filled with Fuji Superia 200 film that had expired a year ago. I’m really happy with the results (party because of my models obviously ).
My nephew got quite a bit of lego gifts and he spend a lot of time putting it together according to instructions.
