mnl ,
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I’ve started writing a “learning to draw to make better engineering sketchbooks” and was wondering which aspects I should focus on. Here’s a selection of some working pages from 2016 and 2022 (I started the endeavor in 2010).

Which make you the most curious?

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Some more working scratchpad style pages…

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Here is the first page before and after I made the decision “fuck it I’m learning to draw”. Can’t believe it’s been 14 years and 100+ sketchbooks

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Some more images of the progress over the years. This is from sketchbook nr6. I was using 160 pages sketchbooks at the time so it’s a span of maybe 8 months oO

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About 3-4 years later…

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2 years later around 2016 and also the time I stopped drawing because I burnt out. I since haven’t really picked it back up besides a short stint last summer.

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And the few drawings from last summer where I got an ai art boost.

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sylvthesizer ,
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@mnl Whoa that's cool as hell

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@sylvthesizer thanks!

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@mnl ha, I think I recognize which book that model sitting on a chair is from 🙃

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@playinprogress hah which one? I don’t :)

playinprogress ,
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@mnl Bill Donovan's "Advanced Fashion Drawing", exercise on negative space. Actually a good book that I sometimes recommend to people who are ok at drawing from observation and want to play around more with style, graphic qualities of things and such.

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@playinprogress oh completely forgot about this, I love fashion drawing, so slick

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