Completion Project 2
Jul. 1st, 2005 12:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pasitheaTowards the end of my last sketchbook, I started a project to go through and finish out all of the partial drawings I'd abandoned. Even if they proportions were crap or something. It was an opportunity to take a good look at mistakes and correct them. The idea was to not spend a lot of time on the completions, just add hands, heads, arms, legs, whatever had been left off, and make it work with it's deformities, whatever they might be.
This turned out to be a great project for me as I could really identify what I'd done wrong in prior drawings and, for many of them, I was able to correct whatever was wrong with a few quick strokes, or I was able to at least make them into an interestingly weird drawing.
A few days ago I hit the last page of my current sketchbook and still had time to kill, so I decided that what I wanted to do now was practice making smooth fluid strokes (I tend to draw lots of little scratchy lines instead of big sweepy smooth ones) So, I pulled out a ballpoint pen and began inking every drawing (flat line weight) and, so far, it's turning out to be quite a lot of fun and I'm getting some really interesting drawings out of some of the stuff in my book. It's also cool because it makes me realize two thinks. 1) My artwork isn't nearly as bad as it is in my head. 2) I really draw in a lot of different styles.
I'd been feeling like my artwork was in a rut and that I was always drawing the same characters in the same poses with the same proportions but ink makes things on the page really 'pop'. Plus, I'm inking quickly so I'm really looking at the artwork but I'm still going through 2 or 3 pages per hour. It's really insanely varied in every way. Maybe I'll start scanning a few pieces that I like every few days just for fun.
Last little bit of art-related stuff that's been bubbling around in my head for a few days: While talking with Peggy a few nights ago, I got to thinking about art. I know perspective, proportions, and everythign else. The problem is I can't seem to put it all together without the drawing feeling static and dead. But I think I realized what's wrong, or at least the next thing I need to focus on. It's plain and simple miopia. I work two inches from the page and I'm focused on only the arm, leg, or ear. I need to draw from further away and look at the whole picture ALL THE TIME while I work.
This turned out to be a great project for me as I could really identify what I'd done wrong in prior drawings and, for many of them, I was able to correct whatever was wrong with a few quick strokes, or I was able to at least make them into an interestingly weird drawing.
A few days ago I hit the last page of my current sketchbook and still had time to kill, so I decided that what I wanted to do now was practice making smooth fluid strokes (I tend to draw lots of little scratchy lines instead of big sweepy smooth ones) So, I pulled out a ballpoint pen and began inking every drawing (flat line weight) and, so far, it's turning out to be quite a lot of fun and I'm getting some really interesting drawings out of some of the stuff in my book. It's also cool because it makes me realize two thinks. 1) My artwork isn't nearly as bad as it is in my head. 2) I really draw in a lot of different styles.
I'd been feeling like my artwork was in a rut and that I was always drawing the same characters in the same poses with the same proportions but ink makes things on the page really 'pop'. Plus, I'm inking quickly so I'm really looking at the artwork but I'm still going through 2 or 3 pages per hour. It's really insanely varied in every way. Maybe I'll start scanning a few pieces that I like every few days just for fun.
Last little bit of art-related stuff that's been bubbling around in my head for a few days: While talking with Peggy a few nights ago, I got to thinking about art. I know perspective, proportions, and everythign else. The problem is I can't seem to put it all together without the drawing feeling static and dead. But I think I realized what's wrong, or at least the next thing I need to focus on. It's plain and simple miopia. I work two inches from the page and I'm focused on only the arm, leg, or ear. I need to draw from further away and look at the whole picture ALL THE TIME while I work.
