October Drawing Ideas Plan

Daily Drawing Motivation
Drawing ideas and exercises for beginners and intermediates to aid in getting a daily routine. ​

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October Week 1

  • 01 OCT
  • 02 OCT
  • 03 OCT
  • 04 OCT
  • 05 OCT
  • 06 OCT
  • 07 OCT
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Drawing of a Knight

This will be a week of drawing portraits.

​Metal always fascinated me in terms of drawing. There is a crispness in such drawings. This drawing will look good without being fully finished. If you hone in on the face and a coupe of metal part surrounding the face and leave the rest as a contour drawing, it still will remain an interesting drawing. 

Girl with Tiara

Growing up with fairytales in an orphanage but no TV, all of us girls were dreaming of being Princesses. When it comes to the dress, don't be shocked by the amount of detail. The easy part here is that the dress mainly has only two tonal values. So fill in the whole dress in the mid-tone value and then add all darker details on top. 

Flower Tiara

Continuing from yesterdays girl's dream, if we couldn't get hold of a tiara, flowers would do just as well. We used buttercups and daisies, but poppies were great too.  

More Formal

When I was young the orphanage often asked us children to dress more formal for certain occasions. This drawing reminds me greatly of that time. 

Once a year for Christmas we've got new clothing, and pretty much the whole bunch at the orphanage wore the same, as we had only a few choices to pick from. But I remember that I was grateful that we could chose at all. 

Girl with Freckles

This week really catapulted me back to my childhood. I had a lot of freckles and didn't really like it, although it didn't bother me too much either. One day when we were talking about freckles, a sweet boy told me: "Martina, a girl without freckles, is like the night sky without stars". I never forgot that taste of honey in that sentence. 

Dreamy Girl

The hardest part of this drawing is the pullover. Forget all the detail at first and draw the mid-tone that sits underneath the pattern. See where it is lighter and darker. Then watch how the knitting pattern is running in lines and draw them with a very light pencil. Then you fill in the dots running in the middle of the lines you just have drawn. But see how they are fading in some areas and are stronger in others. It will awkward if they would be all the same. 

Catch Up Day

Today you can either rest, or try to finish some of the uncompleted work due for this week. ​​​