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Day 114
Thursday, June 15, 2023
🌧 31 °C
Altitude: 5,203 ft
Mexico Oaxaca City 17.078011, -96.72326717°4’41” N 96°43’24” W
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#3. April 21 to June 14, 2023
June 14, 2023 in Mexico ⋅ 🌧 31 °C
In this latest part of this Udemy course, “The Complete Drawing Masterclass,” I’m drawing “portrait parts,” i.e., eyes, ears, noses, mouths, and hair. Then there are a few subjects of my own: a little dog, a stuffed goat head, and “souvenirs” of my left knee injury: a crutch and my knee injury, as seen from a view of the ligaments.

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Traveler Very successful.
6/16/23Reply
Speak, WorldThank you! Angles is going to get better and better, because I am using the compass on my phone! It’s not exactly training my eye, but I’m getting it exactly right.
6/17/23Reply
Your dog is really well done. I love the light and shadows of his face. Looking right at us! [Ellen B]
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Speak, WorldThank you, Ellen.
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Day 72
Thursday, May 4, 2023
☁️ 30 °C
Altitude: 5,203 ft
Mexico Oaxaca City 17.07806, -96.72326717°4’41” N 96°43’24” W
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#2. March 28 to May 3, 2023
May 3, 2023 in Mexico ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
This is what I’ve studied in my online “Complete Drawing Masterclass, lectures 56 to 100
1. Applying value: hatching, cross-hatching and the “reductive method.”
2. Drawing in one- and two-point perspective.
3. The blocking-in method of drawing
4. A few drawings of my own

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Traveler I wonder if you found the classes in perspective drawing as satisfying as I did. All those "oh yes, of course" moments.
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Speak, WorldYes, doing perspective is very satisfying in many ways. I was lazy in doing 2-point perspective for the ex-Convento in not putting the vanishing points way outside the page. Next time…
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Gosh, you don't do things by halves! These are so impressive! (sister sz) [michelle]
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Speak, WorldThank you! I guess I’m ready to look at how things really are at this point.
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Day 34
Sunday, March 26, 2023
☀️ 30 °C
Altitude: 5,203 ft
Mexico Oaxaca City 17.078129, -96.72338117°4’41” N 96°43’24” W
#1 February 19 to March 26, 2023
March 26, 2023 in Mexico ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C
I am definitely doing a different kind of “trip” here: after a 24-year hiatus, I decided to start drawing again, and I wanted to keep a “diary” of my progress. Therefore, every “trip” here is a course or a topic, and every “footprint” in the trip will be my drawings. All will be in chronological order so I can keep track of my progress, and so can you.

This first class of “Beginning to Draw Again” is called “The Complete Drawing Masterclass: From Beginning to Advanced” taught by Jonathan Simon. It is a course on a very well-thought-out platform called “Udemy.” In this footprint, I covered Lectures 17-22, doing gesture, contour, and structural drawings, This is the usual way drawing instruction starts for beginners.

Although I’m not an actual “beginner” in this footprint, 24 years is a long time to not do something! Also, in 1998-99 as a true beginner, it somehow didn’t occur to me to practice every day. So my progress wasn’t good. This time around, at age 72, I’m practicing almost every day.

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