CharmLotta
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CharmLotta
I took my creativity muscles to the gym but they are still weak. I did the first drawing before watching the demo, but even afterwards I managed to draw only four thumbnails from the second photo. Thumbnails on the A4 page, my palm for scale and of course absolutely not for the attention :-D
Niklas Nilsson
well done!
CharmLotta
"Hi, mum! Oh, you are doing your drawing lesson. What are you practising this time?" "Just some ugly drawings with a dull pencil..."
CharmLotta
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This kind of poses drawing should probably take no more than 5 minutes per figure, I needed 20 or more... I focused on proportions and the methods of simplifying of the body parts. Maybe it's just not the time for me to speed up yet.
Martha Muniz
It's alright if you need more time, especially when starting out! There's a lot of different parts of the figure to break down, but once you get more familiarity with the subject, speed will be less of an issue. I do think you still keep fluidity throughout the poses with rhythms in mind, which is excellent. Do however watch out for the tendency to elongate and make the limbs, especially the arms, too fluid, almost into noodle arm territory. Adding structure by finding hard edges to incorporate as straight lines can help. Also, keep an eye out for the shoulder area as a transitional rhythm between the torso and arm that still holds it own mass, so it can be more fleshed out and developed in the drawings. I think this will also help with keeping the arms proportional, as the arm's starting point will be further away from the torso thus shorter. Hope this helps!
CharmLotta
First six pages are level 1, the last without numbers - level 2. After putting away references and my own drawings I felt a sudden emptiness in my brain, I didn't remember the poses sketched a minute ago! I did some seals from memory, but it was really challenging.
CharmLotta
I tried level 2, now I see I should play more with the proportions, not only with shapes. I had problems with the side view - it was hard to forget about 3D thinking and identify simple shapes. I gave up with the fox this time, I have to come back to this exercise again sometime.
CharmLotta
This exercise was like a healthy food: not very tasty, but you hope for the future benefits...
CharmLotta
I was struggling with this exercise today and gave up, because the result looked weird for me. After watching two first thumbnails made for Rembrandt now I see it really should look like that. I only began with too many details, but generally I understood the assignment well. By the way, I've almost fallen asleep watching the first part - the music was so relaxing.
CharmLotta
Thanks for the detailed comment about the light. My desk lamp was good enough for all my hobbies so far, even for fairly precise work, like sewing or drawing with a fineliner. But distinguishing the subtle differences between the values in this assignment appeared difficult. I definitely have to test some different bulbs.
CharmLotta
My first attempts - even for level 1 - were rather chaotic. Then I practised organizing lines weight doing the "Perspective challenge" (all drawings can be find in an album in my profile) and I also wasn't very happy with the results. Now I participate in Inktober and I hope some progress can be seen.
Agnieszka
3mo
Well Done
Melanie Scearce
Amazing progress! I really love the backpack and journal drawings.
CharmLotta
Lighting is important also when drawing, not only taking photos. I made the assignment in artificial light first and I corrected it next day in daylight. And I think this version is better - I could see the differences between the values more clearly. Row 1 and 2: The same pencil set, two attempts. Row 3: Polychromos coloured pencils (black, white, two shades of cold gray). I'm not very happy with the result, but I just don't have much experience with blending this type of pencils. Row 4: fineliner, random hatching - without a specific goal, like drawing a texture or showing object's curvature, it doesn't look stunning :-)
CharmLotta
4mo
PS. Sometimes it is useful to be short-sighted, I don't have to squint, I just take off my glasses and the image is blurred perfectly. I suspect that many of the brilliant artistic effects that we admire today are the result of the painter's vision defect :-)
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