Wow your sketchbook is awesome! Really like your train sketches, seems like a good way to fit in drawing every day. As for drawing, I just joined a life drawing class so that every week I know I'm doing some focused drawings from life. Maybe find some like-minded people and meet up in a cafe every weekend to covertly draw…
That's another great exercise, drawing contour lines over objects and imagining how the surface flows/how it looks from that perspective and intersects etc. @vassago: I'm the same, starting a drawing can be so painful for me cos i've a tendency to want it to be perfect right from the start. Also it can be frustrating when…
Most people on the train are fairly distracted, reading, listening to music and staring out the window, so they don't really notice you drawing them. That's just the way the train is - I've never had any probs. I keep a sketchbook on conceptart.org here (shameless plug!) which is mostly train doodles. I usually pick…
We're hating on tracing cause what you're doing is not tracing :P Tracing means following the lines. By noting and drawing things like the line of action, some perspective, and porportion, you're actively thinking about what you're doing and learning from it. Tracing is just mindless tracing :p IMO, the best way to learn…