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I'm not the type to watch tutorials very often, but this proved to me once again that it can be really helpful to do that sometimes; especially when you're struggling with motivation!
Oh and also, very important: this tutorial of his quite literally started with drawing a simple circle for the head, which I struggled with so much I almost got frustrated. While practicing it though, I discovered that it's way easier to draw a shape like a circle when I'm using my arm to draw instead of my wrist! Drawing big shapes with your wrists is difficult because they need to bend weirdly to stretch to the dimensions needed, whereas the arm allows for a much smoother motion with these sizeable shapes.
Oh and also, very important: this tutorial of his quite literally started with drawing a simple circle for the head, which I struggled with so much I almost got frustrated. While practicing it though, I discovered that it's way easier to draw a shape like a circle when I'm using my arm to draw instead of my wrist! Drawing big shapes with your wrists is difficult because they need to bend weirdly to stretch to the dimensions needed, whereas the arm allows for a much smoother motion with these sizeable shapes.
## Day 10
<span class="date-marker">2026-02-15, 22:02</span>
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altText="Two anime-style heads. Both are looking to the left, but one has their head tilted to the right. Both are drawn using a pencil and contain construction lines to mark out the general shape."
subtitle="picking a cool pose can make quite the difference."
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For today's part of the challenge, I mostly tried to continue with mikeymegamega's approach I learned yesterday. It went okay!
I first did the head on the right. The head actually looks quite big, gives me Megamind vibes maybe some hair would make it blend better. I think it turned out okay overall, though a bit boring. Perhaps the ear is a bit small.
The second drawing, on the left, looks more interesting, I think. I went back to the video and used a still image as a reference. I found myself erasing and re-tracing a lot. Since I had a *bit* more of a goal here than I did a few days ago, I wasn't quite as bothered by this though. The perspective isn't ideal (nose/mouth look a tiny bit off), but the pose makes me like the second one quite a bit more!
I was actually kind of bothered by my tools today more so than by my skills. I noticed that my eraser kept leaving red marks, and the paper of the notebook I'm using is pretty thin, so previous drawings shine through (more noticeable in-person than on the scan). Worse yet, when I try to finalise lines and draw them with more pressure, they press through to 2-3 pages after. I'll get a new eraser tomorrow probably, but we'll see about the notebook, I don't want to chuck away this one after only having used it for a couple of days.
I wonder what I should draw next. Maybe I'll try using a photo as a reference pic and draw the head of a person using this technique; learn how to evaluate and draw poses on my own, without the guidance of a tutorial.
That type of freedom is my end goal.

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