I love the "feel free to do them stylized even if people say it's wrong" and all that because art is really just subjective and what you want to draw and how is the important thing
I've also been referencing that automatic drawing video a lot, haha.. it's great. Anyway, I might have to give this challenge a go. Those sketchbook pages are looking nice!
I did my first 10 heads last night but I didn't know that there was a specific referential Pinterest board so I've been hoarding head images on my own since then. It's such a relief to see that you (and Dani) did the work of finding the references for us. I will do some from there too. Thanks again!
bookworm62591 same.... but i think it would be okay ... I think that he did a specific patreon for saving our time. But the result would be the same. We will all improving Sorry for my bad English
In all seriousness, artists should prioritize health more. The whole sleep less, draw more is actually far more harmful than helpful in the long run. Sleep is a vital part of learning and the process that helps make sense of everything on a subconscious level. There are many studies conducted on people that sleep vs people with lack of sleep but more practice. The people that sleep performed better every time. I don’t have a specific source, however if you google the studies on it you can find many and see for yourselves. I think everyone inherently understands this though. But working yourself to death is glorified, especially in the art community. If you absolutely want to draw more while also getting sleep, you’re better off just drawing more while lucid dreaming. In any case, this is a great challenge. I’ll be joining in on from January 10th.
In top of that so many artists injure their hands/ their body after working too much for long periods of time :( working a lot sounds cool and makes you seem super productive but you take all of that from your own future... and these things are so barely talked about it hurts!
Bro, I literally sleep more than I draw (albeit it's gotten to a bit of an overflow of sleep) but everytime I'm ready to sleep, I watch several drawing videos just so my brain can calculate and rationalize everything without me having to understand it consciously
Wow, I needed to hear this, so good to know my art anxieties are so common they are almost normal and better yet to have the wisdom you shared to overcome them. Thanks so much!
Man, despite taking drawing seriously over the last 5 years and working hard at it constantly I still struggle with motivating myself to actually sit down and complete studies. This is perfect, thanks so much for putting the challenge out there dude.
Man, so much great advice packed into this video Ahmed. Time to grab my coffee and sketchbook... but which one to use? Not that one, it's too big. And this one has paper I don't care for. Guess, I should sharpen a bunch of pencils, after all, you can't have too many pencils...sharpened. Now, where's my kneaded eraser? Oops, coffee's cold gotta go warm it up. Think I'll sit for a moment to see what's new on RUclips... HEY! Ahmed has a new video on sketching! Think I'll sit and watch it. Man, I"m so inspired! Time to grab my coffee and sketchbook....
Thank you for this. While study and hard work are obviously important, sometimes I feel like EVERYTHING I ever draw/paint needs to be strict, academic, accurate and hyper detailed. That often devastates me, it brings me to the point where I'm not interested in doing piece at all. Truth to be told, more often than not I prefer my "messy" and "unprofessional" work I drew/sketched out on the spot without any planning, reference, study, etc. Work where I went by gut and feeling... Maybe I should stop feeling guilty and ashamed about that and the blockade will go away...
This is one of the best things I’ve ever done to improve my drawing! The portraits are challenging and I can see progress with each one. I only wish I’d done something like this way back when.
I feel like it was so smart to draw from the mini icons of the figures. I have a tendency to draw really big when working off of one picture, and end up using up a majority of the page. But the way you first did them you were able to fit a lot on the page and the focal point was on the practice overall rather than all the tiny details in each portrait. I love this video and the whole idea, I'm so sad I am only hearing of it now!
Been giving this one a go here Ahmed, cause the exercise is great. Thinking of pushing onwards with it to 100 gesture drawings in 10 days, 100 torsos in 10 days etc to really get that flow going. However one thing i do have to point out about the 100 images on pinterest. A lot of them come from fashion/art shoots and the lighting is very flat/even (which is the correct lighting for that kind of photo) however it makes for a fairly uninteresting portrait unless you make up your own lightsource and shade accordingly. the zbrush and sculpture pics have been the most enjoyable to draw as they are more defined and the lighting on them is always interesting.
There's a bunch of us that you're an icon to. You're a movement creator. An inspirator (try to find a spelling of that word that doesn't result in a red squiggly line.) It says there are 318 comments on this video, but the movement you've created out-number the rats in the sewers of new york. Thank you, man. Thanks for sharing with us how you try to be your best, so that we can be better. For anyone that's just starting to set improvement as their goal, you're a benefactor. For anyone that's been working this art for years, you humble us with your tutelage. You are as great a teacher as any.
I just want to say that the comment about sculpting in your darks, like when you're sculpting with clay actually is really helping me visualize a 3D form better. Thank you. Planning on starting this challenge after I get a few projects done. Thank you.
I only wish I could fall in love with drawing again soon. This is a challenge that sparked my interest, after the longest time, so thank you. I love your drawings as well, instant sub!!
I'm so happy you did this because I would normally draw only when I have my projects or tasks that I would get in my art class and other times when I just want to pass time drawing I feel like it wouldn't turn out as good because I wouldn't feel as motivated as with the tasks. This to me is fun but also giving me something to work towards.
Hey dude, just finished up my 5th day of this challenge so I'm at drawing 50. And I just wanted to say that I've already seen a big improvement in my art. I think I understand the planes of the face a lot better than I did last week. I'm really excited to see where I am in another 5 days. Thanks for creating this challenge!
I started 3 days ago. I've been trying to find your references at Pinterest and now I see the link here. 😁 thank you this is a fun challenge. I have noticed improvement on my 20th drawing. I found out I cant really do small drawings too. So I have to draw maximum of probably 3 on a page.
I really like how you think about lol. Thank you so much for this challenge. And thank you for talking about those anxieties and a strategy to just focus on improving, that's priceless.
I love this idea! I might give this challenge a go sometime soon and I will certainly advise my followers to do so too, this is such a great practice ❤ Glad I found your channel!
Beautiful! Thank you. I look forward to doing this because of your emphasis on personal growth vs. being worried about comparing. I am not very comfortable with drawing and especially not more realistic/photo realistic things. I look forward to watching the video on Automatic Drawing too.
This is such a good challenge! I've been trying to get more variety in my work but I always fall back in my confort zone... One goal I have this year is to get confortable with drawing men and this is such a great oportunity to start my journey to that! Also, love the variety of the heads you pinned! I'm gonna start right away with my sketchbook and a couple of mechanical pencils, just like you. I feel like this is a good practice to go back to the basics. :)
Thank you só much! More than words can say. You've really set something in motion with this. For both others and me. Wishing you all the best, and the joy of knowing our Creator ❤ It makes life and painting even more fun. Thanks again!!
I just finished my challenge. It was a great experience. I noticed I did better with the scary faces and statues. Great challenge. Thanks so much for the initiative. Blessings and take care.
Im going to do my best and give this a try! I find it hard to sit my butt down and choose what i should be drawing, what i should be practicing, etc etc so having a challenge with set photos takes SO much artist anxiety out of it. Thanks so much for this ^^
Wow! This is one of the best challenge! I am a bit challenge to do this!! I just love drawing faces, of all drawings, face drawing would always be my preferences! 😁☺️
Gonna start tomorrow...well later on today since its after midnight now and im already seeing double..Anyway..love this challenge and cant wait to get started..thanks
those are some really nice references, thanks dani and ahmed. ill try to do this by myself too, i doubt ill do 100 since i have other work to finish, but a lot of these look very useful for study
This is an awesome idea and practice. I like the idea of trying automatic drawing as well. There's something really fluid and inviting about just letting your hand, mind and heart do what it wants on paper without restriction. That being said I appreciate your thoughts on how to approach the challenge. It's definitely more about becoming better today than yesterday and seeing, acknowledging and appreciating that growth. Will love to incorporate a challenge like this into my drawing practice and I look forward to the end result ^_^
I did a similar challenge as a 100 heads in 100 days a couple years ago - and learnt so much. This challenge is next level! Definitely going to try it :)
I need to start these challenges they seem like fun and easy challenges. I can do these after work but I have to finish the Sculpt January challenge first.
Do you mean his dark circles? Sometimes those are included in your DNA and have nothing to do with lack of sleep. So that’s quite a rude thing of you to say!
@@miscellaneous7777 Dark circles are a genetic trait?? huh, that's actually very interesting, though if we're being honest it kind of makes the Ahmed look cool, gives his face more dimension
I'm 2 days in and this challenge has been kicking my ass, I spent the whole day yesterday just making 10 heads did not expect it to be this hard. but that just goes to show how unknowledgeable iam when it comes to the fine details of drawing. hope I can be better at the end of this challenge!
Thanks for the inspiration, I did your 100 head challenge over the past week and completed it two days ago. I did more in an effort restart my channel so thanks. I may do hands or some other body part next. I think I did them in less time and probably did more heads if I am going based on how you setup the timeframe. I did mine from 2/7 to 2/19 and thanks again for the challenge.
Props to the people who can actually do this. I'm only on and Day 2 really struggling to stay focused. I'm already noticing improvement though which is awesome to see. Still tho, that's a lotta heads .-.
Well i'm for sure doing this. However I draw heads all the time so i think I'll add a small challenge and give all of them different horns/antlers. I've been really motivated by horn designs lately.
This is awesome! Your drawings look good! I was working on this 100 heads challenge without knowing it was an existing challenge. It took me 7 weeks to draw 70 heads, so thats at least 1 a day. With every 100 drawings I'll switch to a larger size of paper. until I have 500. After that I'll switch to colour.
I love the "feel free to do them stylized even if people say it's wrong" and all that because art is really just subjective and what you want to draw and how is the important thing
I've also been referencing that automatic drawing video a lot, haha.. it's great. Anyway, I might have to give this challenge a go. Those sketchbook pages are looking nice!
Any chance to take a peek?
If you're cool with collabing the reveal that would be so cool
Did this challenge. Got blown away by my own progress. Now I'm doing it for all body parts.
I did my first 10 heads last night but I didn't know that there was a specific referential Pinterest board so I've been hoarding head images on my own since then. It's such a relief to see that you (and Dani) did the work of finding the references for us. I will do some from there too. Thanks again!
bookworm62591 same.... but i think it would be okay ...
I think that he did a specific patreon for saving our time.
But the result would be the same. We will all improving
Sorry for my bad English
I have no idea why those BIC mechanical pencils are so nice to draw with. They're my favorite drawing (and writing) mechanical pencils too.
In all seriousness, artists should prioritize health more. The whole sleep less, draw more is actually far more harmful than helpful in the long run. Sleep is a vital part of learning and the process that helps make sense of everything on a subconscious level. There are many studies conducted on people that sleep vs people with lack of sleep but more practice. The people that sleep performed better every time.
I don’t have a specific source, however if you google the studies on it you can find many and see for yourselves. I think everyone inherently understands this though. But working yourself to death is glorified, especially in the art community. If you absolutely want to draw more while also getting sleep, you’re better off just drawing more while lucid dreaming.
In any case, this is a great challenge. I’ll be joining in on from January 10th.
In top of that so many artists injure their hands/ their body after working too much for long periods of time :( working a lot sounds cool and makes you seem super productive but you take all of that from your own future... and these things are so barely talked about it hurts!
Bro, I literally sleep more than I draw (albeit it's gotten to a bit of an overflow of sleep) but everytime I'm ready to sleep, I watch several drawing videos just so my brain can calculate and rationalize everything without me having to understand it consciously
You're a NGMI
Wow, I needed to hear this, so good to know my art anxieties are so common they are almost normal and better yet to have the wisdom you shared to overcome them. Thanks so much!
Man, despite taking drawing seriously over the last 5 years and working hard at it constantly I still struggle with motivating myself to actually sit down and complete studies. This is perfect, thanks so much for putting the challenge out there dude.
this seems like a great challenge! I could join!
Hi I follow u in Insta
Man, so much great advice packed into this video Ahmed. Time to grab my coffee and sketchbook... but which one to use? Not that one, it's too big. And this one has paper I don't care for. Guess, I should sharpen a bunch of pencils, after all, you can't have too many pencils...sharpened. Now, where's my kneaded eraser? Oops, coffee's cold gotta go warm it up. Think I'll sit for a moment to see what's new on RUclips... HEY! Ahmed has a new video on sketching! Think I'll sit and watch it. Man, I"m so inspired! Time to grab my coffee and sketchbook....
thats me all over right now haha
Perfect lol
EXACTLY
😂😂 that's so me!!
*_you use the eraser to blend??_*
Genius
Thank you for this. While study and hard work are obviously important, sometimes I feel like EVERYTHING I ever draw/paint needs to be strict, academic, accurate and hyper detailed. That often devastates me, it brings me to the point where I'm not interested in doing piece at all.
Truth to be told, more often than not I prefer my "messy" and "unprofessional" work I drew/sketched out on the spot without any planning, reference, study, etc. Work where I went by gut and feeling... Maybe I should stop feeling guilty and ashamed about that and the blockade will go away...
This is one of the best things I’ve ever done to improve my drawing! The portraits are challenging and I can see progress with each one. I only wish I’d done something like this way back when.
My god this will be so awesome and fun
*HEAD-start! Your so funny, Ahmed!*
You're*
I feel like it was so smart to draw from the mini icons of the figures. I have a tendency to draw really big when working off of one picture, and end up using up a majority of the page. But the way you first did them you were able to fit a lot on the page and the focal point was on the practice overall rather than all the tiny details in each portrait. I love this video and the whole idea, I'm so sad I am only hearing of it now!
How enlightening the comparison with clay. Thank u!
Been giving this one a go here Ahmed, cause the exercise is great. Thinking of pushing onwards with it to 100 gesture drawings in 10 days, 100 torsos in 10 days etc to really get that flow going.
However one thing i do have to point out about the 100 images on pinterest. A lot of them come from fashion/art shoots and the lighting is very flat/even (which is the correct lighting for that kind of photo) however it makes for a fairly uninteresting portrait unless you make up your own lightsource and shade accordingly.
the zbrush and sculpture pics have been the most enjoyable to draw as they are more defined and the lighting on them is always interesting.
There's a bunch of us that you're an icon to. You're a movement creator. An inspirator (try to find a spelling of that word that doesn't result in a red squiggly line.) It says there are 318 comments on this video, but the movement you've created out-number the rats in the sewers of new york.
Thank you, man. Thanks for sharing with us how you try to be your best, so that we can be better. For anyone that's just starting to set improvement as their goal, you're a benefactor.
For anyone that's been working this art for years, you humble us with your tutelage. You are as great a teacher as any.
I just want to say that the comment about sculpting in your darks, like when you're sculpting with clay actually is really helping me visualize a 3D form better. Thank you. Planning on starting this challenge after I get a few projects done. Thank you.
Yes! I’m almost done but I see lots of improvement!
Very, very challenging. I'm pretty sure my heads will be all failures, but I feel so inclined to do this challenge.
Same dude, I have no idea how to draw proper heads, but I'm gonna jump right in. Good luck doing this challenge guys!
You guys did the challenge ?
I like these challenges, it’s easy and the sense of community really is motivating
wow man you are the chillest man I've seen
goals
I only wish I could fall in love with drawing again soon. This is a challenge that sparked my interest, after the longest time, so thank you. I love your drawings as well, instant sub!!
Ahmed, you're my favourite artist!
I'm so happy you did this because I would normally draw only when I have my projects or tasks that I would get in my art class and other times when I just want to pass time drawing I feel like it wouldn't turn out as good because I wouldn't feel as motivated as with the tasks. This to me is fun but also giving me something to work towards.
I got this bro. Will keep you updated.
I rarely draw diverse men, so the sculptures have greatly improved my ability to draw different noses, beards, and eyebrows. I'm so grateful.
Literally on my mind immediately before seeing this
Thank you for putting this together. I think I'm going to try it out.
I'm so pumped to try this!
Hey dude, just finished up my 5th day of this challenge so I'm at drawing 50. And I just wanted to say that I've already seen a big improvement in my art. I think I understand the planes of the face a lot better than I did last week. I'm really excited to see where I am in another 5 days. Thanks for creating this challenge!
_I’m doing it, my dudes, wish me luck._ I will update!!
Me too
You never updated
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Did you die
@@zillabnp8501 unfortunately I passed away
Your style is so beautiful
I started 3 days ago. I've been trying to find your references at Pinterest and now I see the link here. 😁 thank you this is a fun challenge. I have noticed improvement on my 20th drawing. I found out I cant really do small drawings too. So I have to draw maximum of probably 3 on a page.
I really like how you think about lol. Thank you so much for this challenge. And thank you for talking about those anxieties and a strategy to just focus on improving, that's priceless.
I love this idea! I might give this challenge a go sometime soon and I will certainly advise my followers to do so too, this is such a great practice ❤ Glad I found your channel!
Beautiful! Thank you. I look forward to doing this because of your emphasis on personal growth vs. being worried about comparing. I am not very comfortable with drawing and especially not more realistic/photo realistic things. I look forward to watching the video on Automatic Drawing too.
This is such a good challenge! I've been trying to get more variety in my work but I always fall back in my confort zone... One goal I have this year is to get confortable with drawing men and this is such a great oportunity to start my journey to that!
Also, love the variety of the heads you pinned! I'm gonna start right away with my sketchbook and a couple of mechanical pencils, just like you. I feel like this is a good practice to go back to the basics. :)
Just started the challenge today after a friend showed it to me yesterday. Awesome video! :)
Really liked doing this challenge! hard work but rewarding. Thanks for the reference pinterest board!!!
Bruh I love this man so much
I will start this Challenge Today since its the holiday season and I have sometime to improve myself
Thank you só much! More than words can say. You've really set something in motion with this. For both others and me.
Wishing you all the best, and the joy of knowing our Creator ❤
It makes life and painting even more fun.
Thanks again!!
I just started the challenge last night. 10 in two hours. Blessings and take care.
Your art never ceases to inspire me and make me strive to be better :D
I just finished my challenge. It was a great experience. I noticed I did better with the scary faces and statues. Great challenge. Thanks so much for the initiative. Blessings and take care.
Hummm never done one of these. Maybe this will be the one to try.
I’ve been soo inspired ⚡️… I’m looking forward to try this challenge
*Dani already got a heads start*
Minnie Small lead me here! Starting this today, great challenge!!!
These challenges are a good idea! I'm gonna start doing them!
Im going to do my best and give this a try! I find it hard to sit my butt down and choose what i should be drawing, what i should be practicing, etc etc so having a challenge with set photos takes SO much artist anxiety out of it. Thanks so much for this ^^
I've already done like 250 heads from cartoon reference last month. I guess another 100 from photo reference can't hurt!
Pity I start hands challenge quite late and didn’t even finish it yet, cannot start to do head at the same time with you! Love it!
Wow! This is one of the best challenge! I am a bit challenge to do this!! I just love drawing faces, of all drawings, face drawing would always be my preferences! 😁☺️
This channel was recommended my Minnie Small. Really glad it was 😊
those heads are great man. Love your interpretations.
Can i change heads? I drew other heads than yours
Because i didn’t know tjat we need to draw specific heads
i'm very excited to try this challenge this june! 🤩
The mantel is lit lets go
Easy for a experienced artist.
Thank you for this video and your advice!
Gonna start tomorrow...well later on today since its after midnight now and im already seeing double..Anyway..love this challenge and cant wait to get started..thanks
Can you start this challenge any date? Really would like to give this a go for the ten days.
Wow I was doing a painting and I literally thought to myself I need to draw more heads.
I'm definitely doing this :)
lifted my mood! Thank you!
This was so helpful and inspiring!
those are some really nice references, thanks dani and ahmed. ill try to do this by myself too, i doubt ill do 100 since i have other work to finish, but a lot of these look very useful for study
Yyeessss I'm so here for this. I'm so bad at drawing heads in proportion. This is the perfect challenge.
This is an awesome idea and practice. I like the idea of trying automatic drawing as well. There's something really fluid and inviting about just letting your hand, mind and heart do what it wants on paper without restriction. That being said I appreciate your thoughts on how to approach the challenge. It's definitely more about becoming better today than yesterday and seeing, acknowledging and appreciating that growth. Will love to incorporate a challenge like this into my drawing practice and I look forward to the end result ^_^
I did a similar challenge as a 100 heads in 100 days a couple years ago - and learnt so much. This challenge is next level! Definitely going to try it :)
I need to start these challenges they seem like fun and easy challenges. I can do these after work but I have to finish the Sculpt January challenge first.
I've been doing 1 page a day for sketches and I will start doing this too! Gonna try to do both and see how long I can keep that up💪
ahmed looks like he's doing the no sleep til 2020 challenge 😂😂
rude
Do you mean his dark circles? Sometimes those are included in your DNA and have nothing to do with lack of sleep. So that’s quite a rude thing of you to say!
@@miscellaneous7777 Dark circles are a genetic trait?? huh, that's actually very interesting, though if we're being honest it kind of makes the Ahmed look cool, gives his face more dimension
😂😂
So inspiring!
Great idea bro 👌🏼
This is amazing, I'm gonna start it today!!
You make this look a lot easier than it is ^^'
I'm 2 days in and this challenge has been kicking my ass, I spent the whole day yesterday just making 10 heads did not expect it to be this hard. but that just goes to show how unknowledgeable iam when it comes to the fine details of drawing. hope I can be better at the end of this challenge!
Good to know about how the eraser can be an awesome tool. Referred by Minnie Small. So happy!! Starting the challenge today.
Thanks for the inspiration, I did your 100 head challenge over the past week and completed it two days ago. I did more in an effort restart my channel so thanks. I may do hands or some other body part next. I think I did them in less time and probably did more heads if I am going based on how you setup the timeframe. I did mine from 2/7 to 2/19 and thanks again for the challenge.
Props to the people who can actually do this. I'm only on and Day 2 really struggling to stay focused. I'm already noticing improvement though which is awesome to see. Still tho, that's a lotta heads .-.
I'm gonna try this as well but I'm gonna use the Loomis head method for each one I'm very new at drawing.
I definitely want to take part in this challenge
I am going to do this. I am learning.
I’m definitely going to try to do this. So far it been day 2 and already drew 20 heads! Now moving on to day 3 😤 this is so motivating
ill try this too
i was waiting soo much for this!!
I wont take part in this challenge but thanks a lot for all the awesome reference pictures! They are pure gold :)
This looks really intrestingt! I probably should try that out.
Btw I really love your voice and tips!
missed this challenge but I'll still join in and post it on my Instagram.
Well i'm for sure doing this. However I draw heads all the time so i think I'll add a small challenge and give all of them different horns/antlers. I've been really motivated by horn designs lately.
Going to do this challenge today!
“She’s already got a head start.” Haha get it..HEAD start
I know, I’m a comedic genius 😌
Oh this is a good to start the year! I'll do it 😁
This is awesome! Your drawings look good!
I was working on this 100 heads challenge without knowing it was an existing challenge.
It took me 7 weeks to draw 70 heads, so thats at least 1 a day.
With every 100 drawings I'll switch to a larger size of paper. until I have 500. After that I'll switch to colour.
I've been watching your videos and it is just so great and inspiring! Me, Saiful, your number 1 fan