Learn to Draw in 30 Days _ The Hobbyist Challenge

The skill of drawing , how much of it is natural talent versus how much of it can be actually learned on this channel .

I try to learn a new skill as quickly as possible .

And on this month for 30 days , I'm gonna try to get better at drawing .

As for drawing experience , this sketchbook , I go dig around for this to find it .

There was one summer in middle school .

So that was like what like 10 years ago , 10 years ago .

Wow .

I went on a vacation to career or something and I took this sketchbook around and I just started drawing in it .

I'll just show you a few from here .

First one .

That's not bad .

It's a rose .

It's pretty rudimentary .

A Ya Man .

I try to draw a scene from the lion king .

There's Mufasa .

Oh , there's baby Simba who looks like an orange blob in this drawing .

I'm starting off with like at least a little bit of intuitive skill , but all these drawings were just me copying off of reference images or photos .

I don't have an understanding of like how drawing actually works and the rules that go behind drawing .

I'm just gonna see how much I can improve within 30 days .

All right , let go .

Let's get started .

Jolly Sketchbook is eight B pen you can learn to draw in 30 days , pulled up .

Oh , changing to an A SMR channel .

So usually when I'm learning a new skill , I'll do a ton of research before I even start filming the video on how to go about learning that skill .

But this time around since I had this super convenient book .

Anyways , I'm just gonna follow this nine fundamental laws of drawing , create the illusion of death depth depth .

That's such a hard word to say .

That's quite a lot .

It's impossible to draw a three dimensional image without applying one or more of these fundamental laws noted .

Pretest .

That's very day one finally dry circle .

It was actually not a bad circle for a light source .

It casts a shadow .

I'll probably be better at shading , but that's it .

That's day one drew circle identified the light source threw in some shading .

I guess I'll see you tomorrow .

Did you out of all of this ?

The thing that I like the most is my son because I made this smaller this circle lower and also to have them overlap .

This gives off the illusion that the sphere in the background is farther away than the sphere in the foreground .

I'm learning , it seems like pretty obvious stuff , but it's good to know these basic concepts once you get into very advanced drawings .

It becomes much more important to remember these things .

I might take a picture every single day , put it on my story or something .

I finally found the drying kits .

Oh , this looks so fancy .

Look at all this stuff .

You have some pencils , some more pencils .

Oh , an eraser .

I needed one of these .

Not gonna lie .

This is kind of overwhelming .

This is supposed to be used for shading .

So I'll take that .

So we have a pencil , we have the stencil type thing and then take the eraser .

Maybe these tools will help out pretty simple .

Day four .

This reminds me of eighth grade geometry for day eight .

Maybe I'll switch out and try to use this pack .

Oh , it's smooth today .

I am drying a koala that looks kind of creepy Coca Cola .

Wow , that was the most I've ever concentrated on anything .

This might be my favorite drawing so far here , I can explain a little bit more about the book .

As you can see every day had a specific exercise for me to follow and each exercise focused in on one or a few of the drawing techniques .

Every day , the exercises would get marginally harder .

For instance , starting with a basic house drawing to a two set drawing house , new concepts would be introduced while older ones were reiterated .

I noticed that I was having a harder time with the drawings with curved line shapes like the sphere and with shading in general .

So , while I was drawing , I tried working on these weaknesses and paid special attention whenever they came up during the exercises .

So little pleasures .

Fun fact about me , I don't drink coffee though .

I'm probably the only person my age that doesn't more of a tea person .

So I wanted to bring up a point here .

Is it really you're learning how to draw when you're just tapping off with the tale today .

And that's a very valid point for me .

I see it more as yes , they be teaching me how to draw all these different items and shapes .

But more so than that , I'm learning to take nis behind drawing .

So for instance , right now , I am drawing a cup but rather than per se me learning how to draw the most perfect cup , it's more so that I'm learning how to utilize size placement , the best ways to go about shading or reference lines .

I'm practicing all these different techniques within the set examples .

I believe it as more of like guidelines and two liter tunnels .

So that even if I wanted to draw a mug next mug too similar , what's something kind of like a water bottle or um what else holds beverage , a wine glass or like something similar but different ?

I can still draw those things because I have all these techniques in mind .

Tip bit of day 20 .

Let me finish this cup .

Now cut 01 point perspective .

I got a ruler for this one dancing like the all in all .

I believe this is a good introductory course to sketching and drawing .

During this video , I resisted the urge to explain every single technique like you don't want to gradient your shading when it's a flat surface or shading in between creases .

I'm kind of afraid of copyright issues with the book .

So I'm not going to detail every single technique that I learned , but I'll put a link in the description .

If anyone wants to try out this challenge for themselves .

Throughout the 30 days , I felt my confidence growing and an improvement in my drawing and shading abilities .

But not only that I really looked forward to every daily drawing session .

It brought me back to a time when I was a creative youngster .

My job for the next half hour would be to do nothing but just doodle .

Oh crap .

Oh The human face .

I am not confident about this one .

Is that too overly ?

I don't even know .

I feel like with a human face , it's so hard to draw because even like a millimeter of difference in symmetry or blind placement can make the entire thing seem ob this day was definitely the hardest day out of all the days .

It's still a little bit off terms of realism and proportions like her lips could probably be higher , her eyes could be drawn better .

This might be a fun challenge to do just on its own day 30 .

I'm always surprised every time this day comes for the last day we're drawing a hand for this time .

I'm gonna try to do it with no guidelines .

Kind of similar .

No , I think I'm done .

Ladies and gentlemen , nice .

That concludes the 30 day challenge .

So only freaking days .

Each drawing like like 20 minutes and it's 30 days and that's about somewhere around like 12 to 15 hours of total drawing work this month .

Ready catch All right , here is pretest .

Here is day 30 a lot better on day 30 .

But the things that I was already doing intuitively in the past , I can actually describe now how I'm doing those things and the techniques that go behind it .

Additionally , I learned a lot of new tricks on how to draw better .

I feel a lot more confident in my sketching abilities moving forward , especially when it comes to shading .

This is an introductory general drawing challenge , but I would still say that my weakness is portraits .

I want to in the future to focus in on maybe just face portraits .

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