October Drawing Ideas Plan

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

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 fairytale stories in an orphanage and 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 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. ​​​

October Week 2

  • 08 OCT
  • 09 OCT
  • 10 OCT
  • 11 OCT
  • 12 OCT
  • 13 OCT
  • 14 OCT
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Chain

Draw light pressured outlines and draw the lightest mid-tone you see all over the chain, even in the darker areas. Do not press too strongly, as the paper needs to keep its tooth, so that we can add more pencil layers. Then add the darker mid-tones over the mid-tone areas as seen on the image. Last add the darkest sections with a darker pencil. You can use a thin pen eraser for lifting little highlight off. 

Bamboo

Like the previous drawing, create light outlines and then first draw the mid-tone you see everywhere within the bamboo. Then use your darker pencils to add the darkest sections. Again you can use a thin pen eraser to take highlight out or if you missed a light line you wish to be clean, use an erasing template. 

Nautilus Clock

Use a compass or a string to create the circles first. Then outline all other details. Instead of mixing a lighter and a darker pencil in the darker areas, fill all mid-tone sections first, but be careful not to press the paper down, as that will make it hard to add the darker pencils on top for the darkest sections. 

Ducks

As usual outline all shapes in a light pressured way. When drawing the details within the duck , as will all detailed works, start with the largest available form within, and then hone in on the smaller forms. Fill all mid-tone sections and then add the darkest sections with a darker pencil. 

Kingfisher

A typical bird here in Australia is the Kingfisher. When tackling the outlines, draw all larger sections of the feathers first. Like the left side has 3 larger sections. The mid section has two larger ones within and then smaller ones within those. Drawing this way, makes it so much easier when the brain get overwhelmed by too much details. Create one simple mid-tone wherever needed and then add the darkest sections. 

Little Plant with Mosaic Pot

This little pot plants is from my studio. Draw all outlines lightly. Then fill all mid-tones, even in the areas where it is darker, except for the background. Then add the darker pencil on top and fill in the background. 

Catch Up Day

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

October Week 3

  • 15 OCT
  • 16 OCT
  • 17 OCT
  • 18 OCT
  • 19 OCT
  • 20 OCT
  • 21 OCT
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Metal Vase with Flowers

Continuing soon...