Zebadiart - Learning to Draw

Blogs are kind of a dead medium, but I write so much on my instagram stories, only for them to turn to dust on the wind, I figure a bit more text space to parse out the thoughts and make them re-accessable couldn't hurt. For now, here's a few pages from my most recent sketch books; I've been playing around with gouache for the past few months, and it's my first real experience trying to consistantly improve at a physical paint medium. I was playing with water colours before that and was having a lot of fun with those but was just really missing access to opaque blending. Learning that Gouache can be 're-activated' on the pallette with water also got me excited from a material waste perspective (i always hated how much acrylic paint i didn't ultimately use and once that's dried, you're done for buddy). I have the idea in my head at the moment that I would like to be able to do rapid portraits for people in a market setting, which I think is definately...