Week 1 Sketch Dump

In addition to project work I'm going to be posting weekly "sketch dumps."  This week I've tried to focus on improving my life drawing, more specifically trying to let my own style through (instead of copying the photo exactly) and getting faster at drawing within time limits.  I've mainly been using pixelovely.com for this but I recently discovered Croquis Cafe which has a much more diverse range of body types to use for reference.  

I planned to focus on environments next week but today I tried doing studies of hands in different poses and I'm even worse than I remember!  Therefore I'm dedicating week 2 to hands. 

Project-wise I'm going to be finishing up my 2D horror game case studies and making a dent in my reading list.  I'm also going to be doing some Gamemaker tutorials.

 I feel I'm slowly managing to get a style across although I think I'm going to experiment with mixing in some more dynamic, angular lines.   I have to stop being lazy with feet and hands and also improve at rendering quicker!

On the left I drew a quick portrait based on Kate Bush in copic markers.  I tried to concentrate on style but I definitely lost her likeness in the process.  Need more practice.
I'm really unhappy with how the drawing on the right turned out as it's totally disproportional - the arms are too long, especially her right one, the right hand is too big and the legs are too short.

 From left to right, 30 second drawings, a 5 minute drawing and a 10 minute drawing.  (Apologies for the dodgy quality, my pencils lines were far too light for the scanner!)

30 minutes for the drawing on the right, forgot to time the others!