Draw with me - my week

Sketchbook

Hello sunshine!

I love painting, drawing and sketching and the week before last, I made a little sketch every day to show you, how easy it is to paint something every day in less than 10 minutes. Even if each of these sketches is not a whole masterpiece, I like that I did it and that I can tell you some stories to my pictures.
Usually I use such sketches to put in my Bullet Journal because (for me) every spread looks prettier with a little painting. So if you don't like it to prepare your weekly pages in advance, you can find some time to paint something for each week whenever you like.

A Bullet Journal is free to use in any way you want to use it and this week it is my Sketchbook!

MONDAY 29|10|18

I started the week with a very long and productive Monday. I have two of my modules on this day, so most of the time I’m somewhere on campus and sometimes I feel that I would be more productive if I wouldn’t sit in class and listen and make some research instead. In Germany I wouldn’t go to classes like these because we do not have to be there and honestly I don’t have 100% attendance, but here I have to be there.
And when I was talking to my boyfriend at the end of this day, I started painting this mouth. I saw it on Pinterest before and I felt like everyone was talking beautiful shit, but it does not make as much sense as the people wished for.
I drew some easy flowers coming out of the mouth with small circles and leaves. To highlight the senselessness of words, I thought it would fit to make the mouth melting. So I added in these melting-lines and painted over the end of the mouth with a white gel pen.

Sketch for Monday

TUESDAY 30|10|18

This was a very good day. I was very productive and did all the things on my to-do list for this day. Again I painted the sketch in the evening but this time before I could talk to my boyfriend, and I was missing him a lot. So I drew this rose as I have been drawing thousands of roses before, but I didn’t want it to be like every other flower… I wanted it to be trapped. And I remembered a old picture I painted years ago and there was a lightbulb shining at some flowers and so I drew the lightbulb but this time, it was around not above it.

Sketch for Tuesday

WEDNESDAY 31|10|18

To be honest: I love painting women. The female body is so curvy and aesthetic that it feels easier to draw and in addition to that it is easier to have a picture in your mind of what you see in the mirror on a daily basis. But I hate drawing faces and hands with a ballpoint pen, and that’s why I decided to hide the hands in the hair and sketch the shades instead of mimic.
I have never painted a kneeling woman before, so I started with the upper body. After adding the belly, I realized that the t-shirt was to short even for a crop top. This is ok, because it is just a sketch, but I wanted it to fit proportional. So I changed the perspective! Instead of standing in-front of her, I imagined looking from below. Do you know these photo shootings on the beach where it looks like the photographer is melting in the sand to get the best angle? Now I imagine to be the photographer! And the women ended up kneeling somewhere.

Sketch for Wednesday

THURSDAY 01|11|18
As you can see by the dates: Wednesday was Halloween. So Thursday was the day after and I was so tired! Not that I have been partying for so long or got drunk or anything, but the people in-front of my window did! So I had an unsettled night and had to get up early for university.
The result was that I was missing my home more than I usually do. Normally I party with my friends and when I go home after it, I will wake up next to my boyfriend the next day and as kind as he is he would bring me some breakfast in bed. But here I am alone, I have to move on and no one really cares about my mood. The only thing I can do is motivating myself to keep going and on days like these it is hard.
But I took the time to drew down my feelings and actually, this picture took the longest time. When I am painting hands I try to paint left hands, because I can hold mine next to the picture and use it as a template while drawing with the right hand. I used my ballpoint pen for my hand and a blue fine liner for his.

Sketch for Thursday

FRIDAY 02|11|18

To be honest: I haven’t been very productive in Thursday and so I had to make good for this on Friday. I had to finish an assignment, I wanted to paint something for Instagram, I wanted to write a marketing plan for one module and I had to write the next blogpost… End of the day: I felt like I had done everything but nothing. I managed to hand in the assignment because it was the deadline, but after this I lost my focus again. I don’t know whether the translation is correct but: you can’t have your cake and eat it too .
In Germany we say: You can’t dance on two weddings, and that’s why I wanted to paint someone dancing on different places at one time. The girl is going through black holes and again she is hiding her face behind the hair. Moreover, I was too lazy to draw fingers or toes, so she just has something that could be hands and feet if you look from far away.
I don’t like that sketch so much, because I think the proportions are not correct and it could be way prettier if I would take more time.

Sketch for Friday

SATURDAY 03|11|18

Honestly I lost my motivation to paint anything. I totally forgot that I was doing this week of sketching and it was almost midnight when I saw my sketchbook. So I ended up redrawing what I saw on Instagram. I love @dinasaurus.art and her paintings.
I had a whole month in my Bullet Journal with recreations of her drawings and why not again painting a picture from her? Nothing is wrong in recreating someone’s art to practice and learn. I think her paintings are perfect to learn to paint faces and this is what I really want to improve.

Sketch for Saturday

SUNDAY 04|11|18

Finally! One more week done and one week less until I can go back to Germany. I can’t wait to go home and see all my loved persons. I can’t wait for Christmas and I can’t wait to give my Christmas presents to all my sweethearts! Currently I’m motivating myself by focusing on all these upcoming events to not give up. I have so fu*** much to do and I am giving my best to get very good marks.
I know I sound like a nerd, but I want to give my best to achieve something. And on days like last Sunday, I feel like I could conquer the world.
But to be fair: I have been drawing ballerinas since I started to learn how to proportion a human body. After using these manikins, I loved sketching it in unnatural positions as ballerinas do. They have my respect for being that stretchy!

Sketch for Sunday

And this is it. This is my week in sketches! I hope you got an idea about my week and how I paint my little sketches. The secret is practicing! Even if the sketches are not the greatest, once ore I painted human bodies and maybe next time I know, that the crop top should be longer or some proportions should be different.
If you would like to see more of these, check out my Instagram and follow this blog. I would love to read your opinions in the comments below!

See you next time!♥