The Weekley 02 - What I learnt this week.

The World of Drawing and Sketching this week, as seen on Mr Noob's TV.

Hello!!!

I have had this thought all week - even when the internet was down¹.

So I want to ask you - if ‘cautious’ means watchful/uncertain, why isn’t the opposite of it “cat-ious” (to mean curious)?

Shouldnt the millions of cats we have seen and continue to see, or the raft of idioms about them, mean that Cat-ious should be a synonym of Cur-ious? 00

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Contents in Brief::

0. Hello!

1. Why the Weekley?

2. What I drew this week.

3. Learnings & Applied learnings!

4. Next’s week Try-cast

5. Inspiration.

6. Hmm.

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1. Why the Weekley

So, this series, which I started last week is called the Weekley, a pley play on the word Weekly, of course.

As I wrote last week: (link)

But without a check-in or a periodic review - it would be very hard to both quantify and improve my learning of the many skills that make “Drawing” or “Sketching”.

Thus. The Weekley.

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2. What I drew this Week.

Pink Trees and Movement Study

Pink Trees

I saw this beautiful picture of a pink tree full of flowers - bursting with them and even weighed down with them, one could say, and it just looked beautiful. It had bestowed a lot of them onto Mother Earth as well, and whoever had taken the photo had done a fantastic job of keeping it all in-frame.

Unfortunately, I don’t seem to have saved that link, so the picture and drawing will have to do!

Movement Study

Another picture where I had the “I should draw this” reaction like I mentioned in a post previously². And thus, based on the positive experience from there, I took this up.

This wasn’t easy cos it combined many things I have had very little experience of:

• Drawing faces to resemble humans (and not cartoons),

• Drawing of limbs in postures where there’s movement

• Multiple Colours in one place.

As you can see, it is a Work-In-Progress, that I hope to finish this week, along with the one I had talked of in my last “The Weekley” letter (link).

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3. Something I learnt this week.

I saw that flipbooking can be something one can try - It always seemed too much work. And then, one video later, it changed.

Just like that³.

Just like that, I saw how it could be made, and I wanted /want to try that⁴.

Thanks to

Rachel Bevan Baker

sharing her notes (and yes, the Substack algorithm for prompting that on my feed) - that also showcase how to do it - it seems like something to try.

And most importantly, IT LOOKS FUNNN!

3 a: Ongoing Learning - Working with colour layers / layering

As you might spot if you look at the Hullophant below, or the other sketches above, I am attempting to layer colours - in the Hullophant below, I am layering the border “light blue” to be below the darker Purple/Pink tone of the Hullophant’s Mouth/toungue⁵.

Also did that with the Pink Tree above where I saw that the “muddy” brown was layered below the pinks, ditto the greens on the side - so I first got onto that. And then dropped in the pinks afterwards. It was interesting to see how much “pink” was needed to “pink-wash” the browns of the tree branches or drak greys of the Bars holding up the tree. At the least, that’s what I think they’re doing: Holding up a Tree drunk in pinks.

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4. Things I want to try the coming week(s)

1. Flipbooking: I dont know if the Flipbooking thing fits here or in #3 above. We shall see.

2. Joyful Sketches: So I have been rather taken in by the joyful energy put out in the sketches of Milena (link). And this is something I definitely want to try and incorporate into my own sketches.

   First I want to to see how I can do more of it.

Maybe an answer is in something I tried last week, the Hullophant⁶

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5 Inspiration

Always enjoy

Animation Obsessive Staff

shares, and this one below was no different. Released about 70 years ago:

Apparently it is of a tale⁷ written before World War 2 had officially started(!) and you can see the short film link in the footnote below.

Have you seen this post from

Michelle Lin

, where it looked like a Cat wagging switching swishing its tail:

It wasn’t!

Gotta love how much information can be conveyed in a few colour and shapes.

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6. Something to mull over:

Being attacked by someone who we think is doing better than us:

Yara

did a great job distilling that framework of how we might want to think about such a thing! Even if you don’t want to frame at as demons vs spirits - the frame of “In their tantrum, they see/show strengths in us that we don’t ourselves see” should motivate us to see what we might have missed!

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Thanks for reading!

That is it for this week’s edition of The Weekley!

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Have a good one!
Mr Noob. ☺️

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Footnotes:

1. About 2 -3 days of this week, the internet was having the funnies. It would work for a few minutes then go down, then work again, then repeat the cycle, sometimes for hours on End. Like a true Ninja fightor, I dug deeper and went for hours into the fight until the my devices ran out of charge, nearly.

2. In Noobles07 where I had talked of it last:

3. (I had a fantastic GIF/ Video lined up for this. Darned substack wouldnt let me upload it, can you believe that??)

4. Like you know that fresh cup of mango juice that just wafts by at the right time in the summer or that ice cream that pops-by right when you are wanting something sweet and cold!

5. For a few serious years I was lead to believe that “toungue” is the right spelling of ‘tongue’. I kitten kid you not. 😣😿

6. Hullophant note is here (Link).

7. See Wiki here: (link)
Link to Youtube video here:

8. I am told the imporant part of “Love thy neighbour” is the second half of that sentence goes “invite them to Substack & ask them to subscribe to Mr Noob’s posts”.