Completed a whole week of daily sketching!

Day 2 of my Form before Detail practice starts with poses from Quickposes. Preferred men muscles and nude models, but put undergarments into these sketches anyways as I had been starting to post sketches everywhere. One of 'em kiddie playgrounds is Art Amino, an app where art-loving kids can open an account and upload their art ventures. Art Amino does not allow nudes so I hope half-nudes like mine below won't be blocked.

I'm proud of what I did below as I think this is the prettiest I've done men sketches so far. I did choose random gestures that are not timed, so I can really study muscle dynamics.

Form before Detail: Day 2

Day 3 sketch below is obviously hurried, with too many sketches on a spread. I think starting that day, I resolved to just sketch at most five to really study more.

Form before Detail: Day 3

On Day  4, I switched to taking Instagram photos instead for inspiration.

I then thought of The Sartorialist as I really like the natural poses of his muses.

Form before Detail: Day 4

Then I realized, I really should be staying away from details (e.g. complicated clothing) for now so I can thoroughly understand form.

Started thinking of the many beautiful minds and bodies I admired and followed on IG.

I then came up with the stunning yogi Talia Sutra.

Sigh, I could just draw her all day!

Form before Detail: Day 5

Talia's IG page has really gorgeous poses perfect for learning form.

I love using photos of people in stretched poses, or in action as they give me so many options to explore perspective. They're mostly in 3D so you get to think harder and develop some kind of x-ray vision to see how the boxes tilt and revolve.

I am terrible at foreshortening, but I think I'm beginning to get brave at it by using the boxes technique, and these of these beautiful poses.

Form before Detail: Day 6

Also, I am so thrilled that she visited my page to see this sketch,

and commented that she liked it.

I was both excited and weary as my sketches are too raw.

This Day 6 sketch I think has the most likes my IG page has ever had since its first post!

Somebody must have kindly shared the photo elsewhere.

My deepest gratitude to you, somebody! <3 <3 <3

On Day 7 sketch (below), I chose one serene pose of Talia along with two stretchy ones.

I like that I challenged myself with perspective with the one on the top,

having the camera shoot her from an above angle.

Form before Detail: Day 7

I know I said I could draw Talia all day but why not draw something different for a change, yes?

Photographer Martin Koll of @bild17 DM'ed me and asked if I could sketch some of his beautiful photos. I chose the three passionate poses below as they are perfect for my Form before Detail practice. Thus, Day 8 below.

Form before Detail: Day 8

And last but definitely not the least for this post, I sketched the talented queen of hoops @nosleeptilbrookelynn . Most of her posts are videos and I'm finding it hard to screenshot some great poses so I only got to choose from among her few but gorgeous photos.

Form before Detail: Day 9

I'd probably won't be doing anything different next week. Maybe similar poses but from different new IG accounts.

I'm really excited that I've done #dailysketches for this long now. I like flipping through the sketchbook, and looking forward to completing it, and buying another one!

I wonder how I progressed from here =)