Draw Better Together

Variety of heads drawn with different expressions.

#drawbettertogether #DBTfaceyourfeelings

This was a lot of fun! Its also a good way of practicing heads in general.

Now- I need to actually put an OC to paper to meet Santa Sully!

Forgot to post a challenge this week, but instead I'll encourage you to do any previously posted #beginnerartclub or #drawbettertogether challenge that especially speaks to you

#drawbettertogether #DBTfaceyourfeelings
This was so hard for me, and I don't feel like I did a very good job either.
I think if I did this again I'd make it a wheel rather than a chart, it might feel more natural to combine specific emotions, rather than trying to 'find' a feeling to fit a gap...

Artists Challenge! ~face~ your feelings Divide your page into a grid like this chart is a rectangle divided into 4 quadrants labelled "negative - postitive" and "expected - unexpected" Then fill it in with expressions that fit The same chart again, filled in with characters from 'Inside out' to represent the various points on the chart.

#drawbettertogether #DBTfaceyourfeelings
Use whatever labels you like on your grid: some other ideas are hot/cold, big/small, love/hate, or however else you can imagine a wide range of expressions!
The idea is to try a wide range of expressions, so try to draw them smaller with and less detail.

Hands are honestly just so hard. There's a lot of complexity in the way they move.
I find that the big shapes to small shapes approach helps me:
Sketch the overall shape of the fingers as a group (tends to follow the curve of the knuckles)
Then find the midpoint curve (first knuckle), then fingers.

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Here's my input for last week- drawing hands.

Its been hard for me to focus on a single subject for a while, and I can see that on these hands. :)

Artists Challenge! ~face~ your feelings Divide your page into a grid like this chart is a rectangle divided into 4 quadrants labelled "negative - postitive" and "expected - unexpected" Then fill it in with expressions that fit The same chart again, filled in with characters from 'Inside out' to represent the various points on the chart.

#drawbettertogether #DBTfaceyourfeelings
Use whatever labels you like on your grid: some other ideas are hot/cold, big/small, love/hate, or however else you can imagine a wide range of expressions!
The idea is to try a wide range of expressions, so try to draw them smaller with and less detail.

Hex has been drawing some excellent technical hands recently, if you need inspiration

7 hand sketches: - a thumbs up - the back side of a hand throwing 'the horns' with index and pinky fingers up - foreshortened front view of a 'finger gun' pose, with index and middle fingers pointed to the viewer and thumb pointed up - shadow-puppet 'dog' pose, showing the pinky finger separated from the other three, and the thumb tucked into the palm - a 5-fingered 'claw' hand with fingers bent erratically; viewed from the side - a 6-fingered hands crossed 'gang sign' with thumbs and ring fingers folded down (I hope this isn't offensive, it's literally just something random I did with my fingers) - a 7-fingered hand spread, with fingers interlaced between 2 hands.

@drawbettertogether.bsky.social - Counting on your fingers

3/4 sketch of a woman smiling.

Front sketch of a abberant human

My drawing(s)!

Started to overcook, but quit. I love the idea of a weekly prompt!

a WIP of a bald feminine :3 face

no idea what the deadline is but early on in the WIP of this year's cirno day, hair is like the last thing I do and I do it freehand so baldno it is for now

That is my drawing 😋

A mermaid with six lemur ears, bison horns, six frog legs, crowns wings and a lobster mouth.

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Chimera!
Mermaid + Bison horns, octopus eyes, six lemur ears, a lobsters mouth, six frog legs, and crow wings.

#beginnerartclub - Chimaera - 1 - Roll 2 or more random subjects 2 - Draw them all 3 - Combine them [below the text is a doodle for example, duck + beaver = a duck with thick legs and a beaver face] More info: - Random subjects from wherever is most convenient for you, Wikipedia, a board/card game like Monikers, a randomiser app, dictionary/encyclopedia, whatever you prefer. - re-roll as many times as it takes to get suitable subjects, this is about finding inspiration from chaos, not dealing with frustration from bad luck. - The idea is to use nouns, but a good combination of noun+verb/adjective could be fun too.

I used Wikipedia, at the left of the page you can see little doodles of a moth, a Gridiron player and the NY water taxi. Beside the doodles are a few test doodles trying out different combinations of the elements: - my first idea was a water-borne moth-boat with a football helmet, I later added a crocodile face to represent the logo on Gridiron Guy's shirt (I don't know sportsball). This was basically what I ended up going with. - My second idea was imagining if a boat-moth was playing gridiron, I felt like the boat elements got totally lost, but I liked the front view of the moth head inside the gridiron helmet. - My third idea was imagining a moth that somehow had the vibes of a gridiron player and the water taxi. I gave it bulked out wings and taxi stripes and it looked okay, but it just wasn't my favorite of the 3 ideas. For the large drawing, I drew the moth-boat facing us so that I could focus on the helmeted moth head, I attempted to have the wings opened out behind, and the frame of the boat visible between them. I added some wake waves and ripples to place it in space Generating this prompt I skipped probably a couple dozen articles about random people and places that didn't inspire me to get these 3 - I rolled an extra because I do silly combo drawings often and wanted to challenge myself this time.

#beginnerartclub - Chimaera 🧬

No rules, just have fun with it, I hope to see what you come up with!

(More details in alt text, but really just do what you want with the prompt as long as you've mixed stuff together)

Use the # tag &/or QRP your submission so that we see it!

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This was a fun practice. It really helped loosen up my sketching.

I'll probably do another this week. :)

#beginnerartclub -Stylisation- 1 - Choose a reference 2 - Draw it 3 - Push and simplify 4 (+) - Repeat step 3 until it breaks! The page includes a little doodle of a 'realistic' face, then a very cartoonish version of the same face as an example of the exercise. PUSH means make big shapes bigger, small chapes smaller, curves curvier and straights straighter. SIMPLIFY means removing any elements that don't tell a story including excess shapes, lines, details, or shading. The goal of this exercise is to end up with a hyper-deformed drawing like a chibi or a newspaper cartoon character

4 pose drawings of a woman in urban clothes holding a long sword and doing a high kick. Each drawing is more stylised than the last for the purpose of art study. The first drawing is an attempt at realism, the proportions are natural and the clothes and hair show natural folds and gravity. Her jeans are cosmetically ripped in several places and she has a jacket tied around her waist. Her pose is very balanced, with her arms and knee close to her torso to maintain a centre of gravity. The Second drawing is meant to be akin to a comic book or anime drawing. The head is about double the size, the kick and sword are further outstretched and the hair is flowing backwards to give an impression of momentum. The creases and rips in the clothing are now just a few simple, larger shapes. The third drawing could be like a western TV animation. The head is smaller than intended because I didn't leave myself enough page. The legs are shorter, the hands and eyes are larger, the hair is fully blowing back, the kick angle is much longer. The details on the shirt and jeans are removed, and the jacket is spread much wider and hanging lower. Her chest is smaller, and I probably could have eliminated the indication altogether and relied solely on the shape instead. The final drawing is chibi proportions, her head is the same size as her body, her hands and boots are much larger, her kick is straighter and higher. her legs are shorter. She no longer has a visible breast shape, neck or shoulders, and her hair has been simplified down to a single thick ribbon, except for the single long strand over the ear which emerged as a prominent characteristic simply because I simplified every other part of her hair.

#beginnerartclub - Stylisation 🗿

Whatever your skill level we'd love to see your attempt.
Let's practice and grow our skills together!

Use the # tag &/or QRP your submission so that we see it!

We got some great advice last week, if you have good tips/tutorials for stylisation please share them!

Sketches done with pencil to practice drawing hair. Curly, short and choppy, a long braid and a sleek ponytail.

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This week's prompt was hair. There are things that are definitely easier done digitally but I'm finding these traditional practices much more satisfying and enjoyable.

#beginnerartclub - HAIR! Use reference! No Faces - Only Hair! Fill a page if you can Try to draw different styles and types DON'T FORGET THE HASHTAG! Any beginner hair drawing tips/tutorials appreciated.

A page full of hair drawings: A messy, curly hairstyle A slicked up short hairstyle A wavy long hairstyle A tight ponytail (x-ray view to show the ponytail path and shape) A messy head of wispy kids hair A slicked back mid-length hairstyle A swoopy short and straight feminine hairstyle A scruffy, wispy kids hairstyle A wispy and curly kids hairstyle A buzzed down spiky hairstyle A buzzed down curly crew cut A spiked up kids hairstyle A Karen 'do (what else would you call that?) A spiked-out scene girl hairstyle A puffball hairstyle of tight curls The spare space at the side and bottom is filled in with explorations of different hair shapes: a long curly strand with a lot of shape variation A thinner, more consistent curl A wavy sheet of hair Another long, thin curl two short strands of tighter curls a longer length of thinner wavy hair with flyaways and separations

#beginnerartclub - Hair!

Whatever your skill level we'd love to see your attempt.
Let's practice and grow our skills together!

I'm pretty happy with my attempt, which tells me I need more feedback (Please)

A face drawn with pencil.

#beginnerartclub

Draw a face.

It was nice to just draw with no reference etc and see what happens. I'm reminded that I wanted to explore something more stylized.

Beginner Art Club Draw a Face Pictured is an excited boy with a wide brimmed hat and a facial scar. If you squint he might resemble a familiar rubber pirate, kinda. I decided to play around with some old manga pens I have had for about 20 years and hardly touched, but I don't think I used them right 🤣

#beginnerartclub Exercise 1 - Draw a face.

Draw any face in any style and any medium, as long as it's the first draft of a new drawing and finished in one sitting (don't overcook it!)

Use the hashtag if you post it so we can see each other's work.
I look forward to seeing your bad drawing! /pos

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I really appreciated the observations you made. Helped my practice!

P.S. Please feel free to join in at any exercise at any time and do as many or as few as you feel like.

#beginnerartclub is public and free, it's not a school or a business and I'm not your boss, you can do what you want ;P

bsky.app/profile/100k... - First exercise

VVV Previous exercise VVV

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Forgot to post my original with the tag, so here's a new face!