Daily Drawing Practice - image 1 - student project

Day 1: Playing with Portrait (inspired by Strictly Come Dancing) very little inner critic happening while doing this. The positivity of Strictly in the background helped. Enjoyed getting glimpses of Motsi but not having long enough to get too hung up on whether I was drawing an exact representation. Using Adobe Fresco until I get some watercolours and other materials.

Daily Drawing Practice - image 2 - student project

Loads of inner critic happening with this one but trying to pick out what I like about it. Mostly enjoying the tractor and hills. I wanted to add detail over the top but feel too scared to try. Fear of not drawing things correctly. Maybe need to spend some time getting more comfortable with just drawing with lines on no fill...

Day 2:

Daily Drawing Practice - image 3 - student project

Having a go with just drawing in black water colour. Horses showing up a lot.

Day 3: Still playing with drawing. Horses. Playing with curves and geometric shapes as well as different styles of nose and eye shapes

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Not so abstract! But enjoying trying to get to grips with drawing the horses body

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I really like aspects of some of these. The kindness on some faces, some look more like boys and some more like girls, some even smile.

Day 4/5: Having a play with colour pencils. I loved spending time in this moonlit world with this beautiful creature. Daily Drawing Practice - image 7 - student project

I tried to draw a person by the fire but wasn't happy with the shapes so now its more of a ghost..?

Day 6: Having a play with different ink pens.

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Day 7: Drawing the contents of my bag as a part of another course

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Day 8:

Drawing for a daily gratitude journal

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Day 9:

Drawing inspired initially by the food I ate today (from another course)and then being joined by my cat as I drew.

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Day 10: Birds

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Day 11: Can't resist spending time with a horse - enjoyed playing with watercolour and pen and ink combined. Love the way ink responds when added to wet paper.

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Day 12: Mixed media - Sleeping winter fox

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Day 13: I had a particular look I wanted to achieve with this one. I used Coptic markers on watercolour paper. I think it may have been Bette to use marker paper but I didn’t have any. I wasn’t too happy with the colour pallet or the trees so I had another go and prefer my second attempt which is a mix of Coptic markers, coloured pencils and posca pen. Daily Drawing Practice - image 16 - student project

Mags McNeill

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