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Mehndi came by a week or so ago and gave me some pointers. The only one I remember, because dumb me didn't write them down, was her suggestion as to draw heads starting with the circle then moving to the ears which will then define the eye brow. Drop down from there for the eyes and then formulate the nose, mouth, and cheek. Bring the outer ear down to the cheek and then work on the details.
I did these in a few minutes over lunch today...I did the top one first, beginner's luck, then tried a front one, then tried a profile again with less success. Looking at the progression, I slipped back into my current abilities. :P
She also bade me to set the eraser aside...so there he is, shouting at me, lamenting my trip to the office copier/printer/scanner without his having touched the sheet.
It'll probably look really good small. If you enlarge it I'm pretty sure it's gonna look like poop. Mehndi showed me a way to fix that...but I didn't write it down so I'm missing a step in the layer masking process.
Sad, the best thing on this sheet is the hokey eraser dude.
That makes 9 original submissions for 2008.
Pencils on the back of some scrap engineering drawings.
Swift
I did these in a few minutes over lunch today...I did the top one first, beginner's luck, then tried a front one, then tried a profile again with less success. Looking at the progression, I slipped back into my current abilities. :P
She also bade me to set the eraser aside...so there he is, shouting at me, lamenting my trip to the office copier/printer/scanner without his having touched the sheet.
It'll probably look really good small. If you enlarge it I'm pretty sure it's gonna look like poop. Mehndi showed me a way to fix that...but I didn't write it down so I'm missing a step in the layer masking process.
Sad, the best thing on this sheet is the hokey eraser dude.
That makes 9 original submissions for 2008.
Pencils on the back of some scrap engineering drawings.
Swift
Category Artwork (Traditional) / Doodle
Species Vulpine (Other)
Size 909 x 1280px
File Size 149.2 kB
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*laughs*
Thanks Tacki. My paw is not used to playing nice with the images that appear in my mind. I've squandered many good years when I should have been drawing more and improving. Now I'm fighting time and schedules to make up for it.
But I appreciate the comments. I think I'm going to keep Mr. Eraser around as the tn for the sketches I post. :D
*Hugs*
Thanks Tacki. My paw is not used to playing nice with the images that appear in my mind. I've squandered many good years when I should have been drawing more and improving. Now I'm fighting time and schedules to make up for it.
But I appreciate the comments. I think I'm going to keep Mr. Eraser around as the tn for the sketches I post. :D
*Hugs*
The top two are actually quite good. The third looks like you rushed it perhaps. Look at proportions and the relationship between the individual parts of the figure.
Finding an opportunity to draw foxes from life is probably limited, but dogs would be good practice. I'd say you're on the right track here. It's a matter of seeing how the bits fit together.
I agree about the eraser. He needs a time out. The best exercise in drawing is to not erase at all, but start a new sketch again and again until you're happy with it. Take a cheap notebook or something and just flip the page and do another, and another. My college art teacher used similar techniques and I was amazed at how quickly we all improved. She would also pose a live model and make them change positions every 30 seconds. You had to get what you could and go to a new page each time the pose changed. You learn to find the essentials, the joining points of the lines quickly drawn. It's a very enlightening exercise.
Have you read Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain? I recommend it highly. You're doing good, though.
Finding an opportunity to draw foxes from life is probably limited, but dogs would be good practice. I'd say you're on the right track here. It's a matter of seeing how the bits fit together.
I agree about the eraser. He needs a time out. The best exercise in drawing is to not erase at all, but start a new sketch again and again until you're happy with it. Take a cheap notebook or something and just flip the page and do another, and another. My college art teacher used similar techniques and I was amazed at how quickly we all improved. She would also pose a live model and make them change positions every 30 seconds. You had to get what you could and go to a new page each time the pose changed. You learn to find the essentials, the joining points of the lines quickly drawn. It's a very enlightening exercise.
Have you read Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain? I recommend it highly. You're doing good, though.
Not rushed really...most sketches take about a minute or two to flesh out, then there's the time to adjust them. I attempted to apply the new technique to my existing style. I was attempting to correct what I thought was a muzzle that was too wide and instead it turned out too short. I know where I munged up that bottom sketch, but I posted it anyway. :)
Mr. Eraser really, REALLY, wanted to jump on that bottom sketch. :D
I'm trying to find time to do more sketching...sometimes my muse to draw does not correspond with my schedule though.
I'll have to look up that book though. *Hugs*
Thanks for the advice.
Mr. Eraser really, REALLY, wanted to jump on that bottom sketch. :D
I'm trying to find time to do more sketching...sometimes my muse to draw does not correspond with my schedule though.
I'll have to look up that book though. *Hugs*
Thanks for the advice.
Advice is cheap, you're more than welcome. Probably worth what it cost, too.
Detailed book information: The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards (2nd revised edition, Jeremy Tarcher/Putnam, 1999, ISBN 0874774241 for the paperback edition.) This can be found new or used. The old first edition is just as good. Well worth hunting down. Edwards shows you how you need to make the left side of your brain (the talky part) shut up so the right side (the visual/artsy part) do its job. What she has to say applies to other things as well, such as music, dance, and even sports.
I can easily believe that you have trouble finding time to draw. I have the same problem, and I'm not doing half as many things as you seem to be managing. *hugs*
Detailed book information: The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards (2nd revised edition, Jeremy Tarcher/Putnam, 1999, ISBN 0874774241 for the paperback edition.) This can be found new or used. The old first edition is just as good. Well worth hunting down. Edwards shows you how you need to make the left side of your brain (the talky part) shut up so the right side (the visual/artsy part) do its job. What she has to say applies to other things as well, such as music, dance, and even sports.
I can easily believe that you have trouble finding time to draw. I have the same problem, and I'm not doing half as many things as you seem to be managing. *hugs*
^^ Keep it up Swifty, it would be cool too see more. If you don't already, I recommend also adding a faint vertical line and two horizontal lines meeting right where the nose would be. This will help to proportion the mussel and set the eye-line. It looks like you've already got that down well though. For the body, make a wire figure first to help proportion it.
Yeah, normally I use the vertical and horizontal lines to delineate the eye and nose level, but that wasn't gelling with the new technique I'm trying here. Either way, I've got to refine my heads, I'm pretty good with body proportions with the exception of hands and feet, which are a trouble point for many artists.
Thanks for the comment, the encouragement and advice Circa.
*Hugs*
Thanks for the comment, the encouragement and advice Circa.
*Hugs*
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