Chris Beaven

I don’t measure while I draw anymore. I find it halts the process of drawing too much and creates a since of mistrust in yourself.

I would liked to have finished this figure drawing but I got caught up in shading rather than focusing on line like I said I would days ago.

Today I’m drawing super slow, I took my time and just enjoyed the tiny details and building up the portrait of this figure.

Today I focused on one figure throughout the whole session.

I don’t think my current medium lends itself well to value so the next session I’m going to focus on describing the form with more line that shading.

I started drawing 1 minute poses of a model from DrawThis on YouTube, and after a few cartoon looking head I decided to spend some time and capture the person.

Working from YouTube and DrawThis, I’m finding it difficult to get the shape of this model’s face correct.

I practice comparative drawing, I barely measure anymore, and what helps me the most to get more accurate drawings is working the drawing side to side.

Even though I schedule my art time and try to protect it from distractions some things just can’t wait.

Today I did a bunch of 1 minute head drawings from the DrawThis channel on YouTube.

I focused on the face of the model today and I discovered that I need to work on drawing faces.

If you want to do art every day for the rest of your life you have to plan it in your day, every day.

The life drawing once a week is a great break from working form photos but I can’t do it every day so I’m back to my norm and working from YouTube.

My drawings today didn’t focus a lot on details and I don’t really care for them.

Two minutes is my favorite time frame for gesture drawings, even though I’m not doing the normal type of gesture.

Back to some shorter drawings with “Draw This” on YouTube, with these I’m getting much better at describing the form of the head quickly.

Today I did a session from DrawThis with longer drawings but I think I started out too detailed for each drawing.

I’ve been taking the wonderful critiques of my paintings for granted, and as my eyes are opened to my ignorance I’m beginning to make plans in sharing my work more.

Well, I’m not drawing from photos exactly, I’m drawing from a YouTube channel called “Draw This” and it features live models.

Another busy day today as both me and my cat had to take a trip to the doctor.

When you have multiple things going on at once it’s very hard to do any one thing to the best of your ability, your best work needs all your focus.

I had a lot going on today so my art session was pretty simple. Setup, find content, start drawing. Short, sweet and to the point.

I consistently have better drawings plus I’m much more focused while drawing when listening to music.

I would hope that I drew at the same speed even though I have more time, but inevitably I slow down.

I switched it up today and did some drawing from Draw This on YouTube, I like the format and the models better but it is a bit long so I just worked on the first part.

I like it when I forget about everything around me and deeply focus on the shape of a contour or the edge of a shadow, moving through the drawing not caring about what I’ve done or what to draw next.

I’ve been following Brian Johnson and his work on YouTube for years and now me and my wife have decided to make a huge commitment to his program.

My gesture drawing has changed over the years, I worry less about getting the whole figure in and more about the accuracy of each stroke I make.

I have big plan for the new year, it may take some time for them to get off the ground but it’s all about longevity. So here is to starting the year off right.

On this new years eve I’m just doing my basic figure drawing for the day. Happy New Year!

I draw from a YouTube channel and I’m becoming increasingly frustrated at their lack of variety when choosing model.

I used a harder charcoal pencil for this session, an HB conte 1710, I like the lighter touch needed for the figure drawing here and the focus on line.

I’m not worried too much about accuracy but I am happy that even after weeks of no drawing, only painting, I’m getting close enough.

I spent some time looking at my painting and I decided to call it finished, the rest of the session was some figure drawing from YouTube.