I’ve never been so excited and alive for a long long time!
At the beginning of this week, for some reason, my hand felt cramped and stiff, and I dreaded drawing for the 1st time. After Wed, it got much better.
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Below are my attempts at constructional drawing. You can see the perspective compared to the photo is wrong to begin with! If you have any crits, pls let me know:



And portraits from photos below. Trying to accurately draw angles are one of the toughest thing in art:


Below drawing has no likeness! After I finished it, then I realized some angles (lips etc.) ain’t correct:

The Organisation of Illustrators Council Singapore had 2 Portrait Day this weekend and I attended both.
This event is basically a mass portrait drawing session, whereby participants (posers etc.) sit on the couch / chair, and all the artists sits in a semi-circle fashion and draw. Each portrait lasts 20 mins, and after you’re done, you clip your drawing to the hanger and if the poser likes it and buys it, you get SG$10 for it.
The distance between poser and artist is approx 4 – 8+ feet away depending where you sit, though you can get closer still, but I didn’t dare to try that:
And I had an eye-opener when I saw some of the works by the guys there. I think most of these drawings are expressive in nature (illustrations) and stylized. They are all very beautiful, and I hope to draw like them someday….maybe in 50 years, I hope.
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My own drawings were complete garbage, but seriously, I’ve really tried my best to observe and draw what I see. I treated the event like an academic drawing, but LOL…mine were the worst of the lot. Here:
I dunno how to draw the 2 kids who moved non-stop. I dunno how to draw anything that moves! Like the dog.




Profile drawing. I think your 2-year old kid can do better than this:



The left drawing of the lady reminds me of John Singer Sargent’s Madame X. LOL! ![]()

The lady below moved her head every 2 seconds, and I got tried to join different poses together and a chimera results:

The next portrait day will be held next month, so in the meantime, I’ll continue to study the books I’ve, draw from still life and photos, train myself in line confidence and ACCURACY (this is the hardest), and also gonna start copying from Bridgeman’s anatomy drawings.
As usual, if you guys have crits or feedback, let me know. I’ve gotten mentally stronger since my last burn-out and I lust for negative feedback so that I can improve.
Good day,
Xeon





































































































































































































































































