Ok, so I promised you that I'd show you some of the things I've made at the art course I'm taking...
..and I will.
I just forgot that my scanner's not big enough for A3 sheets,
so I have to apologize in advance for the crappy quality of the pictures, but my camera's not the greatest, and the light in my room does justice by absolutely no one..
Anywho..
Some of you might have noticed that the banner has changed,
and instead of the old one with my drawing of a monkey on,
it's now a picture of the site's mascot, who dearly needs a name..
Meet..whatshisname. For now, I shall call you Ludwig..
The drawing workshop I go to once a week is pretty basic stuff..
and in the beginning it was all about perspective, basic shapes and composition..
Like so..
Ludwig is not very impressed by this, and he is certain I can do better..
The workshop has covered these basic terms:
I hated the first shading class, because we had to work with coal, and since I usually draw using a mechanical pencil, I'm trying to adjust to a regular pencil instead.
So having to use coal is not something I approve of..
Heads however..
The teacher made a point of renaming the class from "self portrait" to "heads" because he figured that would take the stress off our shoulders. Because then our drawings didn't have to look like ourselves..
Haven't done any shading on this one though..
(in the one I did shade, the nose is waaaaaay too tiny, so I don't want to show that one..)
Next was shading/hatching
My teacher didn't like to call it shading, because he felt it didn't really express what we were trying to do properly.
So he called it "shape defining hatching".
Basically, using different shades of whatever to show shape.
We got to choose whatever we wanted to draw, and while most of the others chose boring stuff like cups and bottles, I skipped (yes, skipped) over to the shelves where I found..
an animal skull!
I dunno what kind of skull, but that's not important..
My teacher told us to add some draperies as well, because it's a good exercise on hatch shading..
The guy sitting next to me just gave up on his own drawing when he saw mine.
Not that he's bad or anything, he was just having a bad art day..
(or so he said...)
One of the funniest ones was when we drew hands..
I've always hated drawing hands, but I've always loved the challenge.
Hiding hands in sleeves and stuff only works for so long in drawings.
Cheating ones way out of drawing difficult thing doesn't exactly make you better at them..
Hey Ludwig, do you have a favorite?
"DO I!"
Ah yes, this hand.
This hand..
..belongs to Kiyoharu
[I have a hate/love relationship with that man. I love his music, and his sense of fashion. But I have some serious issues with his face.. It's not his fault. He just looks like a walking collection of STDs sometimes..
I think it's the mouth that does it..
Either way.. he's got very drawable hands.. or something..]
Last time we worked on measuring.
Measuring using the pencil only.
GOD, I hate that.
It looks stupid when people does that.
It has its purpose sure, I do see that..
I just can't get myself to actually do it myself.
I'm used to drawing 'the basic shape of a thigh' then adjust it later.
So when I use guidelines in my drawings, I tend to draw something that looks more like a balloon animal than anything else..
Most of the time I just use eye measurement.
It's very often way off, but it's kind of stuck with me.. if I want to measure stuff, I'll use a ruler..
anywho. We had to do some quick drawings after having to draw houses and stuff..
this is still the best one from that day..
It's actually a copy of a picture by a Danish painter,
but I can't remember the title or the artist..
We used to actually have a poster of that particular picture hanging around somewhere, but now I can't find it. I just remember thinking that the woman in the picture always reminded me of my aunt somehow...
That is all for now.
New drawing workshop tomorrow..
Let's hope we'll get something decent out of it.
♥
..and I will.
I just forgot that my scanner's not big enough for A3 sheets,
so I have to apologize in advance for the crappy quality of the pictures, but my camera's not the greatest, and the light in my room does justice by absolutely no one..
Anywho..
Some of you might have noticed that the banner has changed,
and instead of the old one with my drawing of a monkey on,
it's now a picture of the site's mascot, who dearly needs a name..
Meet..whatshisname. For now, I shall call you Ludwig..
The drawing workshop I go to once a week is pretty basic stuff..
and in the beginning it was all about perspective, basic shapes and composition..
Like so..
Ludwig is not very impressed by this, and he is certain I can do better..
The workshop has covered these basic terms:
- Perspective and basic shapes
- composition
- shading
- heads
- shading/hatching
- hands
- measuring
I hated the first shading class, because we had to work with coal, and since I usually draw using a mechanical pencil, I'm trying to adjust to a regular pencil instead.
So having to use coal is not something I approve of..
Heads however..
The teacher made a point of renaming the class from "self portrait" to "heads" because he figured that would take the stress off our shoulders. Because then our drawings didn't have to look like ourselves..
Haven't done any shading on this one though..
(in the one I did shade, the nose is waaaaaay too tiny, so I don't want to show that one..)
Next was shading/hatching
My teacher didn't like to call it shading, because he felt it didn't really express what we were trying to do properly.
So he called it "shape defining hatching".
Basically, using different shades of whatever to show shape.
We got to choose whatever we wanted to draw, and while most of the others chose boring stuff like cups and bottles, I skipped (yes, skipped) over to the shelves where I found..
an animal skull!I dunno what kind of skull, but that's not important..
My teacher told us to add some draperies as well, because it's a good exercise on hatch shading..
The guy sitting next to me just gave up on his own drawing when he saw mine.
Not that he's bad or anything, he was just having a bad art day..
(or so he said...)
One of the funniest ones was when we drew hands..
I've always hated drawing hands, but I've always loved the challenge.
Hiding hands in sleeves and stuff only works for so long in drawings.
Cheating ones way out of drawing difficult thing doesn't exactly make you better at them..
Hey Ludwig, do you have a favorite?
"DO I!"
Ah yes, this hand.
This hand..
..belongs to Kiyoharu
[I have a hate/love relationship with that man. I love his music, and his sense of fashion. But I have some serious issues with his face.. It's not his fault. He just looks like a walking collection of STDs sometimes..
I think it's the mouth that does it..
Either way.. he's got very drawable hands.. or something..]
Last time we worked on measuring.
Measuring using the pencil only.
GOD, I hate that.
It looks stupid when people does that.
It has its purpose sure, I do see that..
I just can't get myself to actually do it myself.
I'm used to drawing 'the basic shape of a thigh' then adjust it later.
So when I use guidelines in my drawings, I tend to draw something that looks more like a balloon animal than anything else..
Most of the time I just use eye measurement.
It's very often way off, but it's kind of stuck with me.. if I want to measure stuff, I'll use a ruler..
anywho. We had to do some quick drawings after having to draw houses and stuff..
this is still the best one from that day..
It's actually a copy of a picture by a Danish painter,
but I can't remember the title or the artist..
We used to actually have a poster of that particular picture hanging around somewhere, but now I can't find it. I just remember thinking that the woman in the picture always reminded me of my aunt somehow...
That is all for now.
New drawing workshop tomorrow..
Let's hope we'll get something decent out of it.
♥
