BS (On Record)

This is a perfectly timed question actually, since I haven’t been drawing much this year and am trying to get myself back into the practice of daily sketching. I’m taking it easy on myself so I don’t get overwhelmed, but here are some examples of my go-to exercises that I literally did this morning when I woke up:

I love love loveeee to draw random faces and expressions as the first thing I do when I open my program, it just helps me get back into the motions. I’m not actually working on pushing myself to do anything novel with this one, I’m just scribbling within my comfort zone for about 10-15 minutes. I’m not trying to make it look good either, once I realize it looks off (or I start wanting to avoid the next steps, love a little executive dysfunction) I just leave and start a new face all over again. I don’t let myself pause, either!! If I have no ideas for a new face, I usually doodle cubes.

The next thing I use to warm up, probably the most, is an exercise I just call art-telephone. I start with a random set of lines, and challenge myself to pull something out of it. I almost exclusively draw bodies and faces, so that’s what I end up creating.

I try to see how many I can come up with, and keep it as loose as my brain allows. I love studying flow, but I’m also a perfectionist, so this kind of warm up is hard, but helps me rly wake up.

And the extension of art telephone is this part, where I scribble out similar thumbnails to the original, but change up the motions a little.

Also bonus: Original redesign documents from 2022 when I spent like 4 days researching amazigh clothing just bc I couldn’t stand his real outfit.