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Well, this may have been quick, and it may look sketchy, but actually, this is real drawing practice. I’ve long had a copy of How to Draw: Getting Started<\/a> book, a meaty slab of hot drawing tips ripped from the pages of the now-defunct Wizard magazine<\/a>. This “Basic Training” compilation still remains my favorite one-volume collection of comics techniques, deftly combining breadth and depth through short mini-lessons from top comics creators (I mean, come on, they’ve got Adam Hughes, pinup-style cover artist extraordinaire, drawing the section on “Sexy Women” followed by Terry Moore, character-driven independent artist, drawing the following section on “Realistic Women”, and that’s just for starters).<\/p>\n I’ve read it many times, but I’ve never really sat down to methodically do all the exercises.<\/p>\n Until now.<\/p>\n Pictured: roughs drawn from five comic book covers picked pseudo-randomly from my inspiration stacks: Xanadu #1, Dreamery #4, Eagle #3, Superman #39, and Cloak and Dagger #1. I figure I should do ~5-10 of these from existing covers and\/or reference drawings, then ~5-10 of these from my own previous drawings and\/or my mental character gallery. Then I’ll move on to the next section.<\/p>\n Drawing every day.<\/p>\n -the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, this may have been quick, and it may look sketchy, but actually, this is real drawing practice. I’ve long had a copy of How to Draw: Getting Started book,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226,227],"tags":[48,15,260],"class_list":["post-4775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artworks","category-sketchworks","tag-across-the-transfinite-canvas","tag-artworks","tag-drawing-every-day","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4775"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4779,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4775\/revisions\/4779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}