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Having trouble coming up with something to draw? No worries - while you'll eventually learn how to start from a tiny seed of a thought and gradually nurture it into a complex concept to explore through design and illustration, it's perfectly fine not to be there just yet.
For now though, here's an idea that might interest you.
The Great Space Bakeoff
Welcome to the future! Space travel has become commonplace, and humanity has made contact with many different species of aliens, each introducing their own complex cultures and traditions. There is one thing they all have in place, however - their love of good food.
It was no surprise, therefore, that "The Great Space Bakeoff" was a smash hit as soon as it hit the intergalactic television networks. Participants come from all around the known universe, and while the results aren't guaranteed to be pretty, they are always exciting.
If you're feeling down for some character work, design a contestant, a judge, or even the host of the show. Alternatively, designing one of the dishes they create, the appliances they use, or even the set on which they all compete.
This one isn't doing it for you? How about this one instead: The King of Spring >>>
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Marshall Vandruff's Perspective Course
Marshall Vandruff is a ubiquitous name in art instruction - not just through his work on the Draftsmen podcast and his other collaborations with Proko, but in his own right. He's been teaching anatomy, gesture, and perspective for decades, and a number of my own friends have taken his classes at the Laguna College of Art and Design (back around 2010), and had only good things to say about him. Not just as an instructor, but as a wonderful person as well.
Many of you will be familiar with his extremely cheap 1994 Perspective Drawing lectures, but here he kicks it up to a whole new level.