/lwad/#2Previous: >>7849114I've obtained a prescription for (generic) Adderall and wanted to experiment on how it affected learning to draw. I opened this thread to document my progress and for everyone else's observation / amusement.My goal with this thread is to simply take an Adderall and draw for at least a couple hours a day and post the results. Realistically I may miss some days. The hope is to keep these threads ongoing until I'm either satisfied with the progress documented, or I crash out.Probable Questions:>Why?Whether or not medicating has a significant effects on learning, if it only has a partial effect on some related disciplines that go into drawing, or it arguably had no major effect at all, I want this thread to feed into any discussion as a case example. I also chose /ic/ since I know this board doesn't pull back punches.>Are you actually diagnosed with ADD / ADHD?Yes, ADD. I believe inattentive. Been diagnosed since 2003 but never treated long-term.>How old are you?31.>Do you work?Yes. Full time with a very emotionally draining job.>Are you on the spectrum?Undiagnosed but I'm pretty sure. High functioning if so.>Are you Asian?No, white.>What is your drawing experience?I would doodle as a kid but dropped it in my mid-teens. I took and dropped a starter drawing class in college that was mostly figure studies. Good teacher but I had shit motivation.>What are your current struggles?Motivation to draw something that challenges me tends to be few and far between. Taking the medication out of prescribed times also jacked up my sleep schedule.>Thoughts so far?The medication does help focus, but it has a volatility where I can hyper-focus on distractions instead. Discipline and taking care of yourself are the two most important things.>What study materials are you going to use?Currently doing a sample-platter type stuff and studies. A few books on backlog.>What are your goals?To help a friend out with shared projects.
Didn't manage much today. Also the washer I mentioned last night might be borked.
Fundamentally fucked this one up with the stairs off center and I Didn't really make a real left right VP.Debating if I just want to render this one anyway to test some stuff out or try something similar all fresh now that I have a better idea,.
>>7965883this is pretty bold choice of subject to practice for perspective while having mental illness.Why the fuck did you jump into 2 point perspective of a whole house?
Distracted wizard casting fireball on a hydra. Did a two-ish hour straight sit-down. >>7966570I had an idea, but I didn't set / track real VPs so it was doomed from the start.I did feel something click though, so it's something I'll try tackling later.
Fucked up the head, but, 1hr.
Just a sketch today, have to sleep early.Tried to find a specific reference for a stance and the closest thing I got was a a low res photo by some dude who does salts in the Arizona desert for his Christianity blog.
Probably doing the background tomorrow.Bro is looking at the fairy. NOT the sexy lady. I swear.
Not much today. I accidentally made this dude look gormless, but it made me smile so I stuck with it.
Body hurts syndrome today. Cubes.
Hair practice and a figure.I think I figured out what's wrong with me trying to connect the hips and torso, I'm trying to put two things together I should think of it was one thing.Gomen for the lighting.
Trying out a "leave marks not lines" tactic I saw from a video. I gotta fix the top of this arch though, new geometry to me.
Just a teeny bit.
Going to do a few more touches on this one then be done. I don't feel like I was as intentional as I could be. Super tired but a cherry on top is that I have a 3-day weekend.
One of these days I need to go full shading practice.I watched one helpful vid that mentioned I can get the "sunny day" effect leaving the outside completely blank, that was neat to hear.If someone catches this before I start my next drawing, I'll try what they suggest.
Trying this crow was fun
>>7974749Draw this if still taking suggestions
>>7974749Good effort. Try to remember what you were learning about perspective from last thread. This was a good time to apply it.
>>7975042This looked fun on my phone, then I expanded it and went 'hooooolly shit'. I got half of it laid out and scratched on tonight. >>7975484Yeah I tried to do it a faster way instead of being a little more meticulous with having lines aim toward VPs. But my reference also used a lot of uneven crooked stones that roughly fit together, so somehow combining that seems to have some tech I'm not aware of. I think if I stopped using the reference for the top-most portion and used my brain I could've managed it That or try perfectly rectangle squares.
Just a little more plotting today. Had to do family stuff today.
Gonna be a slow week. Focusing on fixing the sleep schedule.I also spent tonight making homemade chili, shhhh.
Hoping I can finish this tomorrow. The back forest was fun.
>>7969638when you make a picture with a subject and a background try to use 3 to 5 values to separate foreground and backgroundsquint (narrow your eyes so that your eyelashes blur the picture) to visualize the value blocksI think the monk's head stands out well against the bush in the background but you're too timid about it. that background area is just too crowded and too low against the head, I would make it fill the whole area above the monk's head and make the fairy shine and also illuminate his face.I know it looks like more work to think about composition but if you block out your imagine right away it becomes much easier to draw and you will also get a better result. at the moment it looks like your pictures are disorganizedwhen you draw a figure start from the gesture first, I am not sure if you were copying or drawing off your head but the pose doesn't have a good dynamic, especially sexy lady shit needs to have a nice smooth curve. that pose is also tricky with foreshortening and the twist of the shoulders so make studies from something simpler and always use a real 3DPD model in case you're working off drawings.
>>7975042I'm going to be VERY careful about taking your recommendations from now on (I'll know who you are).Teasing aside this was a nice one to draw in the 'take my focus off of other things' sort of piece and it looked daunting at first but it was possible to break things down. Gonna cut it short here though.>>7978537Heard. I actually hardly considered values so far, so you made me aware that I should prioritize that a bit more. Doesn't feel like 'more' to doing a composition, to me, but an extra thing to consider. Timid is a fair word for it since at times it's me being afraid to mess up a pic, and other times it's just me not considering values whatsoever so far.What I was trying to do was mix my habit of the lighter pencils I feel like using for sketches, and then I was trying to replicate the color with the darkness of the pencil. Suppose that doesn't work when you put it like that. The monk piece (I intended a mage, but I still haven't learned hair) I think will be on my redraw list for sure. I think fairies are cute subjects.As for the sexy lady drawing, that was referencing a drawing that was exaggerated for artistic purposes (sexo), and I fucked up the head as mentioned. I feel I learned a little bit still with the foreshortening regardless. Anyway, I tried applying the values to this best I could. Thank you (actually) for pointing out the obvious. >block out your imagine right away it becomes much easier to draw and you will also get a better result. at the moment it looks like your pictures are disorganizedCould you elaborate on this a little more? Thanks for your time.
Trying to set up some value practice I find that I can't figure out how to consistently do one pressure
Had a full body acne breakout and I am in a steady amount of pain.How did it happen? Well, there was a whole pan of brownies that needed eaten. Anyway, shitty pokemon attempt.
2 weekends now where I can't push myself to do anything.Gotta go to the motivation store.
>>7979089That was a really hard image give to you to draw (sorry)>>7981513Motivation is the hardest shit to find you are doing better than most. I have no motivation tons of time. so I'm going to try and redraw all of your new posts starting tomorrow (I will not post as to not clog your thread with shit). Hope an anon in parallel will help motivation?
>Almost forgot to post before bed.Oops.I take that this is the general idea with values and backgrounds?>>7981890>That was a really hard image give to you to draw (sorry)New its cool. I teased a little bit or went "oh dang" the more I looked at it, but it was actually cool to think of how to cut it into parts and practice the "draw the effect" part of the trees I watched a video for. >Motivation is the hardest shit to find you are doing better than mostI find its easier if I plan ahead of time what I wanna draw too, take a little time to enjoy the idea.Keeping this up to some extent since Jan 5th is tiring yeah, far from the initial 2 hrs per day planned but at this point I feel like I otta keep the streak up. Feel free to post as you please, mentioned in the OP people can do whatever. It'll be fun to see how others might approach the precise same thing too.
>>7965873i took modafinil, not quite the strength of adderall, but I find that stimulant in general, have tendency to make me hyperfocus and obsessing on details, which is not exactly a good thing in art since you'll risk losing the big picture.When I smoked meth, I ended up jerking off instead of drawing, so there's risk of misguided focus too
I fixed in the wrong thing tonight. Here's oooone gesture.>>7982356From what I heard obsessing on the details is a habit / discipline thing, but the meds certainly might not help.>Meth to masturbate Lucky, when my brother doesn't he just gets bipolar schizophrenia...
Tried to plot something today, may as well count as a break in the streak
Buddy it's been months now. You're well past the phase where a few doodles a day has any benefit. You really need to set a timer for yourself and set a routine for things to practice instead of just drawing whatever comes to mind when you feel it. Start with an hour a day and slowly increase it every couple weeks. You can still draw anything for fun when you have time but make sure practicing fundamentals is at least half of your weekly routine. Even on days you really don't feel like it or didn't take your adderall then just do a 30 min sketch and take it easy knowing that you drew for hours on 4 out of 7 days in the week. I'm sure you don't want to look back on these threads a year from now and see only marginal improvements, if any.
Just some crap. I know how I want this to look in my head but I had only had 3hrs of sleep so I'm on fumes today. Back muscles seized in the middle of the night and woke me up. >>7984538Yeah, you're right. I'm definitely not taking care of myself enough to have the energy for this without a break, so I'm at another point of reassessing. Attempts to fit my sleep schedule were short lived, and I need to cut out that dead time.As mention the goal of two hours a day failed. The couple of things like the tree on a hill for 2hrs and the wizard blowing up the hydra felt nice cuz I sat myself down for those two whole hours. I found that I'm definitely being shy about trying to go for faces and anatomy too. Not gonna say I'm near crash out, but if I ever drop this thread I'll probably flip to /beg/.
1hr 45min and a video. Tree is a bit fucked up but it still feels like one.
1hr 50min and a video on how to do roots (seen left).Fucked up that one branch so I improvised and now it's sawed off. This is gonna be a rather hilly area so I hope that comes out fine.
Wasn't expecting to be out all day today so I got 50mins on for this fenced off portion. Already spotting a potential problem though.
90ish minutes but I enjoyed myself.I'm trying to keep the value thing in mind along with the horizon line to indicate heigh. The latter I knew about but never applied too consciously. Save for that one space picture.
I'm having fun with these micro details for the trees. Didn't have a timer.It doesn't feel like I did a lot, these background trees, but I think they're cute.Also I only got 2 pages left and we have a heatwave going. Will have to brave a trip out soon. I have an idea for something to close the sketchbook but I'll hear ideas too.
>>7989472Dangit.
Like 30ish minutes. Gonna be a slow week. Hope you guys like tiny rendered trees.Honest this would be fun with a micro pen or some.Gonna go camping next month too, I'll draw some nature out there.
Hope this is fair practice for values. Gotta go in the office tomorrow woefully, so sleeping early
