Discussion: Art skill development

[mekare]

Since we are in between challenges atm, I’d be interested in what you are all working on. Do you have a specific skill you are trying to learn? A technique or new medium? A subject matter you haven’t portrayed a lot? Is making time for your art a challenge right now?

What are your personal challenges right now or your successes?

Comments

[yhlee]

What has really helped me work on likenesses is to carry a sketchbook and sketch people at the coffee shop or library or whatever. (I also sketch my husband a lot because he's a friendly, slow-moving target and does not mind when I get his nose completely wrong.) I've been doing a fair bit of travel for work, so I end up sketching random strangers in the airport, at hotel lobbies, etc. This forces me out of my comfort zone in "formulas" for facial proportions and gets me drawing people who look very different.

Watercolors are my favorite too! I love how chaotic they are.