One sheet every weekday (hopefully)

good stuff! You will see the progress in just a couple of weeks. With my sketch a day I’ve noticed a dramatic difference from the first couple of weeks till now, 6 months in!

Morning all,

Today’s efforts attached; dumbphones! Some good, some bad. I feel like you can see where I found my flow as I worked from left to right.

I did attack this one with markers after scanning this, but the results were less than favourable as I’m a little rusty, so I won’t post it! Maybe tomorrow instead of sketching I’ll get these into Photoshop or Sketchbook Pro.

All thoughts and comments appreciated.

You may have noticed I’ve been absent for a while. In short, I was interviewing (successfully) for a new job which starts mid-September so I’d been spending all of my time preparing for that almost immediately after I started this thread!

Anyway, here are today’s sketches in the weekly sketch challenge theme of printers!

congrats! Where will you be working?

Thanks MD, it’s a consultancy in Bristol, UK. I won’t name names until I’m away from my current employer!

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understood. Best of luck with it, and keep those posts up! :slight_smile:

Tried a new approach and am not overly happy with the outcome, but want to show everything for the sake of progress tracking.

I wanted to attempt a more well rounded analogue/digital sketch, but I think I pushed how much I was trying to do in the hour I had this morning and ran out of time. Should have kept it more simple and just done enough to illustrate material breaks, value, texture, etc. I may come back to this, may move on to the next.

The original looked a bit flat so I bumped the contrast and whilst it definitely looks like a bodge-job, it looks much better.


Congrats on the job!

The contrast bump on the second image makes a huge difference. I think it would benefit from heavier linework around the outside of the bag to pop it off of the page.

At which university did you study?

Derby, why do you ask?

Just curious how other unis teach. I went to two and lectured at 2 others. They have taught you well.

Thanks MK19, where did you lecture? I feel like they gave me a good foundation but that at least 80% of the real learning has been on the job, though I suppose that’s the case with every subject/career.

I’ve always been interested in the prospect of lecturing but have wanted to get some industry mileage in first before thinking about it seriously.

Today’s effort - earphones or ‘earbuds’ to my friends across the pond :smiley:

Quite scrappy and felt like a bit of an ‘off’ day. These are biro and papermate flair, scanned in and with some background/shading applied in Sketchbook Pro to add a little ‘pop’.

Applying a one-hour time limit has the benefit of pushing me to produce several forms quickly, but the caveat of feeling like I’m rushing and that I could do better given more time. I want to upload everything up here unfiltered though so that a real reflection of where I’m at can be seen, even if I’m not happy with it!

Missed yesterday’s upload because I cycled to work and as such had no spare time!

These are great. Strongest so far I think.

R

agreed, fun page.

Thanks guys, I’m interested to hear why. Quality of exploration, sketch style, etc?

Visual interest, color, variety of form and shape, color, line. Kinda everything makes it good.

R

Perfume bottles today, using a Pilot Hi-Tec C and Papermate Flair.

More earbuds today, slightly ran over the hour mark.

Bonus one from lunch today. Never sketched cars before, just trying to get a hang of the proportions and perspective!