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Art grinding... drawing for xp and trying to lvl up
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My Aims
I'd like to be able to satisfy my creative urges through art, therefore I am teaching myself how to draw. I touched on basic techniques in school and am trying to extend on that.
Feel free to leave suggestions on how I can improve. I am starting off as a self confessed novice.
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Art Challenges
The goal is to spend at least 10 minutes drawing something every day for a month.
Challenge #1 - 13/05/10 (50 days)
Challenge #2 - 21/11/10 (20 days)
Challenge #3 - 01/06/11 (43 days)
Challenge #4 - 25/04/12 (87 days)
Feel free to leave suggestions on how I can improve. I am starting off as a self confessed novice.
Note: All images are copyright ©
Please do not repost or use for any purpose.
Art Challenges
The goal is to spend at least 10 minutes drawing something every day for a month.
Challenge #1 - 13/05/10 (50 days)
Challenge #2 - 21/11/10 (20 days)
Challenge #3 - 01/06/11 (43 days)
Challenge #4 - 25/04/12 (87 days)
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Things to Remember...
One percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.
That was originally quoted by Thomas Edison to describe genius, but I think it also describes motivation. Some people also use this quote to describe creativity. If you talk to any creative person they will tell you that they've created a lot of flops to get to their masterpieces.
Creativity is a muscle. If you want that muscle to stay strong you’ve got to use it every day. Do things that you know will be difficult, and if they are hard, do them every day until you are good at them. Expand your creative muscles. You don’t grow by staying within your comfort zone.
Ruts are for chumps. Just because you’re going through a bit of a rut that doesn’t mean you should stop drawing, sewing* or any other creative outlet. Accept that not everything you produce is going to be awesome and keep going. If you’ve lost excitement for a project then ask yourself why it’s not exciting anymore. What can you do to make it exciting again? Change something!
* I mention sewing here because it is where I want to take my art and one of the reasons I am practicing drawing.
That was originally quoted by Thomas Edison to describe genius, but I think it also describes motivation. Some people also use this quote to describe creativity. If you talk to any creative person they will tell you that they've created a lot of flops to get to their masterpieces.
Creativity is a muscle. If you want that muscle to stay strong you’ve got to use it every day. Do things that you know will be difficult, and if they are hard, do them every day until you are good at them. Expand your creative muscles. You don’t grow by staying within your comfort zone.
Ruts are for chumps. Just because you’re going through a bit of a rut that doesn’t mean you should stop drawing, sewing* or any other creative outlet. Accept that not everything you produce is going to be awesome and keep going. If you’ve lost excitement for a project then ask yourself why it’s not exciting anymore. What can you do to make it exciting again? Change something!
* I mention sewing here because it is where I want to take my art and one of the reasons I am practicing drawing.
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3 comments:
You know, it is interesting to see my own reactions from an aesthetic point of view to these different models. I find I have a strong preference for the taller models like this one. They look "right" to me, even though your drawings of shorter models, like the previous one, may be accurate too.
I can see why magazines and clothing manufacturers are always choosing what are in fact unusually tall models! Somehow they look different in an image than in real life.
Mark compared this to the photo and said I was getting a lot better at being true to the photo but there are still a few things off. I decided to stop, rather than erase though as it is more about acknowledging the mistakes and moving forward than making perfect renderings.
Interestingly Loomis talks about artists using unrealistic height proportions - and that was in a book published in the 40s! People are normally 7.5 heads tall. He gives other proportions though:
Ideal - 8 heads (what I've been trying to use)
Fashion - 8.5 heads
Heroic! - 8.5 heads
Legs are usually half the space and the rest of the body above. The biggest thing I've learnt about legs is that Loomis is showing the knees ending at upper edge of the middle of the legs when I was doing my knees central making the lower leg look too short.
That's interesting, Metanoia, thank you!
It may also be that people are getting taller since the 40s. It is very common in Canada that children born here are taller, sometimes much taller, than their old world parents. Different diet, I think.
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