Date: 01/01/22 (1)
Comment: 5 mins (guestimate)
100 Faces Nos. 1 and 2
In both cases, I tried to keep it broad and not get bogged down into detail but that just meant that I abandoned it because the hair was hard. No. 2 was even harder to get the angle.
I realised that I should learn the proportions again.
Date:1/1/22 (2)
Comment: What ended up being one of those rare times I tried to do more than one drawing in a session! I felt that I needed to remind myself the proportion of faces.
Date: 3/1/22
Comment: Total time 8 mins.
Practising two things – face proportions and eyes. Neither very instructive.
Date: 9/1/22
Comment: Total time 8 mins
Practising again the face proportions. I think around here, I was started to think the approach of drawing circle extending it a bit for chin etc wasn’t really working for me.
Date:15/1/22
Comment: Total time 20 mins
100 Faces No. 4
I didnt realise at the time that I had missed No. 3. Got the eyes totally wrong (ie of an image with lots of wrongness, those were the wrongest).
Also I abandoned the idea of doing smaller drawings. Some of the people who do these do smaller drawings and do them quickly. But I found one a page a better size for me.
Date: 16/1/22
Comment: Total time 10 mins
100 Faces No. 6
Again out of sequence in terms of faces.
I remember distinctly trying to get the main areas done in outline and then go back and add a bit but I lost interest.
Date: 17/1/22
Comment: Total time 10 min
100 Faces No. 3
Went back and did the third one. I say I got bored but that is bravado for the fact the hair was very intimidating and the rest of the drawing was too naff to even bother.
Date: 18/1/22 and 19/1/22
Comment: Total time 35 mins over two sessions
100 Faces No. 5
Other than proportion and shape, the shading was better than previous attempts.
This is the first time I started a drawing on one day and finished it the next.
Date: 24/1/22
Comment: Total time 10 mins
100 Faces No. 7
I actually gave myself a 10 min timer for the first time and just stopped. I didnt get much done!
Date: 25/1/22
Comment: Total Time 10 mins
Taking a break from the 100 Faces and remembering that the drawing yesterday the nose was difficult. So I did a nose from a reference image.
Date: 26/1/22 and 27/1/22
Comment: Total Time 45 mins over two sessions
I found a reference image and drew an eye. I found that my hand was a bit freer than before and I felt that I was more disciplined, patient with the detail.
Date: 28/1/22
Comment: Total time: 30 mins
100 Faces No. 8
This is wrong on so many levels. Even though I spent 30 mins on it, I never quite managed to get any depth to it or even get any of the detail right – I mean where are her lips?!
Date: 31/1/22
Comment: Total time 5 mins
100 Faces No. 9
Now I should say that Monday evenings are habitually an evening when I relax. So for this drawing I decided to try (again) to keep my hand loose and just focus on the broad shapes based on the values. On the one hand, you can see that it is a girl and the proportions arent that bad, not great but not really bad. For 5 mins it is acceptable.