Life updates

Progress

Another Sunday, another update. A bit later this time because I was still trying to work on some stuff (admit it, you thought I already quit again...).Well, not really a lot to say, other that I've been once again feeling kinda shitty lately. I think melancholy describes it best. I feel like I want to do something, be productive and creative but for some reason I can barely find the energy or motivation to get something done. It feels like no matter what I do it won't really make a difference anyways and then my thoughts spiral down into questioning why I'm even trying to do anything and why I'm even here and... yeah, it gets to dark places. And it doesn't help that my therapist is fighting cancer at the moment... oh well.This week I was still mostly working on head shapes in perspective, trying to do the infamous 3/4-view:I got somewhat fast and confident towards the end, but as always there's still lots of room for improvement.I also attempted to do bottom-up shots, but those ended up pretty bad due to a lack of proper tutorials/explanations. I tried doing them from reference pictures and using a mirror, but I still can't get a feel for the shapes and how the move in space:I got kinda frustrated with that so I decided to move on from the headshapes for now and start working on some eye styles - which I've been looking forward to for a while now:I'm getting a lot of inspiraton for those from redjuice-sensei since I just love the way he draws eyes. So I'll be experimenting around with those for a while until I find something I'm satisfied with, and then maybe I'll try to put the whole head-in-perspective-thing into practice together with those eyes...And last but not least Sycra somehow gave me a bit of newfound motivation to try and do warmup gesture drawings again which I started today too. You probably can't make out anything with all those seemingly random lines but I'm actually feeling somewhat confident in doing them this way (yes, it's trying to be the same as Sycra is doing it...):