Welcome back!
No vlog post today. I was planning on doing one, it’s only day 2 after all, but PAIN happened. Also, it’s been a late night, on account of holiday.
So, what happened was this: excited about having a bit of spare time due to tomorrow’s holiday, and also enjoying my new “toy”… ok, let’s just go with straight up toy, a usb to guitar connector, I was looking forward to sitting down and spending a bit of time strumming away with Rocksmith, which is essentially Rock Band, but with an actual guitar instead of a plastic one. Since we were spending time with our new pup in the living room, I decided to bring the whole rig down there for some practice time. Unfortunately, while carrying both laptop and guitar, along with the various cords and chargers, I was a bit off balanced, and my foot slipped on the stairs and it was all over. I landed hard on my arm and back, electronics went flying everywhere, the dog lost her mind (barking at me, rather than checking up on me mind you), it was a bit of chaos.
I’m fine, all in all, pretty bruised, and my side hurts like mad, but nothing seems broken. Even so, I didn’t really feel up to trying to go through the effort of making a video. It would mostly just be grunting anyway.
That said, injury may stop the updates, but it can’t stop the work. Well, it can, but I didn’t let it this time. Today I practiced some sketching, working on gesture drawing based on references.
The first one is just super simple gesture lines, as well as I could work them out with very little knowledge of what I’m doing. For the second batch I increased the time with each reference photo from 30 seconds to a full minute, and spent some time trying to work out the basic shapes of the form.
This is a fairly standard form of practice, as I understand it, so I’m sure this won’t be the last time I do something like this. And hopefully, like anything else, the more time I spend learning how to spot the gestures, the better I’ll get at it, and the more demonstrative the gesture drawings will be.