I always wanted to be like Leonardo da Vinci or Pablo Picasso. I was never good at Art in my life at any point, and I’m still not. But I want to change this, so I ask AI GTP if I can improve my drawing. I’m gonna follow what I was told for a week, 30 minutes per day. At the end of the week, I’m really hoping I will get better. Let’s begin the journey.
First day of the challenge, I’m making basic shapes. It is very hard to even get straight lines. I have these spikes on the corners of everything. I’m trying to understand which way I do better, like the one motion drawing or separate for each edge. Both look really bad. Let’s make a little bit complex shapes like stars. I’m really bad at making stuff. Okay, I quit making stars. This gets even worse.
Thursday is over. Hopefully, we made some improvements. Day two, I have some improvements. I think my cable is not straight, so I’m gonna use a book to put my paper on, and I’m gonna use a pencil instead of a pen. This is the day for drawing lines, straight lines, curved lines, thin lines, thick lines, and also making contours of different objects.
Let’s start. One thing I realized when I put my arm to the table, my drawing is a bit more shaky. When I lift it up, it’s a bit better. I feel like I lose my ability to draw. I feel like the shoulder position is also important. Okay, this session is done. You can see all the pictures and outlines.
Today is day three. Today’s lesson is shading and value. I’m gonna do a little bit of research before because I don’t know what is that. Then I’m gonna practice the values and the cross. I got a little bit of concept of what is meant by shading or hatching, cross-hatching, stippling, and stuff like that. So I’m gonna do them. Hatching means like lines or what I understood. Let’s bring the day to work and let’s add some shading to some of those shapes. One of the fundamental things when you do shading is you need to choose a point where you think the light is coming, where you want the light coming from. If the light is coming from this direction, the shade should be on the opposite direction. Okay, I can’t believe I’m learning drawing for the first time ever in my life. Another thing it was saying that you can use your finger to blend the lines or dots or the crosses together. So it gives some smoothness. Actually, a little bit. Time is up. The tree is done.
These are all my shadings that I’ve done. Day four, I’m gonna study the mean of proportions in drawing. I’m gonna study human proportions, then I’m gonna practice it. From what I learned, I will try to do a human body. The proportions had the battery issues. One in seven or one in eight. So I did one, two, three, four, five, six, seven on roughly eight equal lines and place the head into the first one. Eyes in the middle of the head. If you divide it into two, the nose should be there. Shoulders are two heads wide. So two heads longest torso since the head is one line. It looks a bit short actually, but I mean it is what it is. Let’s do it. So the legs are 3.5 to 4 heads long. So it’s gonna be one, two, three, four. I’m short. Rich if this is kneecap, okay, should reach hips and kneecap between their halfway. Something like this. Doesn’t look too bad. This is the end for today.
This is the result of day five. Today is all about perspective. I’m going to study the basics of perspective and drawing using chat GTP. Then I will draw some road hallways using one-point perspective, which I’m not sure what it is, but I will try to learn now. There are some key points. The first one is the horizon line. It says draw the horizon, which is the line that the eyes kind of look at, like the middle of the paper. And the vanishing point, a point somewhere in the horizon line. So let’s say this is the vanishing point. Where do you go from the vanishing point? The object will be that much closer to you. I think. End of day five.
I’m actually not sure what I did today. Day six, today is all about textures. So I will look at some samples that I have in the room, like erasers, rocks, and other things. I’m gonna try to replicate their textures on the paper. This is actually one of those days that I’m not exactly sure what I’m doing. I was looking at all different objects and trying to mimic their texture, but it’s hard to find exactly what the texture is because most of them are smooth and shiny. End of day six.
Day seven is the last day of the challenge. I’m going to reveal what I have learned so far. Going through all my drawings, then I will make a personal project. After careful review, I decided to make a landscape as the first project. Then I will draw myself because I drew myself before the first day, so I can compare the beginning of the challenge and the end of the challenge and how much improvement I made in drawing. I will reveal my drawing at the end. This is the end of the challenge. We started with day one, day two, day three, day four, day five, day six, and day seven. This is the image I did today, actually a landscape. This is how I drew myself today at the end of the challenge, and this is how I drew myself at the day one of the challenge.
Lesson learned: you can’t just wake up and be Leonardo da Vinci or Pablo Picasso. Learning to draw is really hard. You need to spend a lot of time on it. I don’t think I made a big improvement, but I think I still learned a few things. Thanks for watching, and I’ll see you in the next one.
