This is a couple notes I made out of a drawing book I got at the library. I don't have the book with me anymore but I did grab a couple things from it. I might check out the book again another time. But as you can see here, I worked on shading as well as shapes. The drawings over to the right with the dotted lines was when I was practicing ellipses, and the drawings on the left side and bottom are of cones and cylinders...although the cylinder over to the right looks like it's curved a bit or something...and yeah that's a waffle cone.
This is a drawing I did of geometric shapes and shading--a cone, ball, cylinder and cube. It was pretty hard but at the same time, I was copying from the book so it wasn't too hard. Apparently the shading was really good, but the shapes not so much, according to some observers.
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Right now I'm focusing on a book I bought at Borders called Drawing on The Right Side of the Brain. and so far it's a very thorough lesson book from what I've seen thus far. There's lots of reading but there's plenty of exercises that the author leads you through.
This is the first lesson I completed.
#1: Your "Self-Portrait" Sit at arm's length (about 2 to 2.5 feet) from a mirror. Lean your board up against the wall, resting the bottom of the board on your lap. Look at the reflection of your head and face in the mirror and draw your "Self-Portrait."
This one took me the longest. I like the way I did the nose and lips at least...but everything else seems to be a bit off in my book. And I'm wearing a hoodie.
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#2: A person, drawn from memory
Call up in your mind's eye an image of a person--perhaps someone from the past or a person you know now. Or you may recall a drawing you did in the past or a photograph of a person well known to you. To the best of your ability, make a drawing of that person. You may draw just the head, a half-figure, or the whole figure.
Alex looks way too emo in this drawing. And lips are not that dark...
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#3: Your hand
Pretty self explanatory, I drew my left wrist and hand in this case since I'm right-handed.
In this one the watch is not positioned right...I had it positioned right before but then changed it after second guessing. Oops. And that's supposed to be a ring on my finger, but I got lazy. I think I had the most fun with this one.
More drawings coming soon!
1 comments:
Wow, definate improvement going on, especially with the self portrait!
I know I told you this already, but just to remind ya, if you want the hair to look more realistic, try drawing it so it's solid. What you're drawing right now has a lot of white space, so it's more the "impression of hair" rather than realistic looking hair.
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