This first drawing was the second attempt at drawing Picasso's Portrait of Igor Stravinsky. The first time I attempted it I was in high school, and unfortunately I don't think I have the drawing sitting around anywhere. But I think this one turned out nicer anyways:
The face is definitely something I struggled with. It was hard to not be conscious about whether or not the skull was the right shape or size. Also, the darker spots in the picture (the ring and edge of chair) or actually in pen, and are things I realized I had forgotten after I had drawn it.
I don't know why, but while drawing I tend to pay too much attention to some things and very little attention, if not full ignorance, towards others things. Also, I went too narrow on the tie, and the neck too small. Maybe I didn't go out far enough on the outside edges.
After that, I felt inspired to draw something on the side. Other people I knew were drawing "mindscapes" so to speak, so I made one of my own:
This is actually a side view of the drawing, and also a very FAINT picture. That's because I first used a 4H pencil before coloring the drawing with marker.
This is the complete drawing. It was my intention to make vibrant colors in this piece. The colors for everything were a bit unplanned but I think it worked out nicely. This whole drawing is basically symbols for what represent my positive and negative attributes. I would go into detail of what each thing represented but that would be boring.
The hand was fun to draw, although now that I look at it again I feel I could have done better. The rainbow-yin yang symbol was something I made out of the blue. I can see that being a tattoo for me, or something...Most of this was done in sharpie markers, by the way. The blue birds are supposed to be doves, but they don't look it. The thing that the hand is coming out of is a whirlpool sort of thing...everything else is self-explanatory, I think. I didn't get too many crits on this one.
This next one was basically a long overdue drawing that was requested by a friend. It's one of his characters from an online RPG that he's in right now:
Think a muscular, middle-aged Mexican and you have what I've attempted to portray here. Few crits I got of this were that the eyes were too far apart and it needed more details on the nose and lips. (Before it was even at this point, I had the head a bit smaller than I needed to as well, hence why some of the head is covering the letters.) So, I revised it a bit and came up with this:
The one thing that I think I had showed some improvement on was creating a realistic image by shadowing. Again I'm not too happy about the face because it still looks cartoonish. I worked hours and hours on the jacket though, although I think the lighting on the right side is a bit off, still. And I cannot draw realistic clothes wrinkles for crap, seriously. The ears are a bit wack as well, and to tell you the truth I didn't try to reference the ears that much. But yeah, the shadowing = epic.
Actually, as I look at this now, the first drawing of the face looks more realistic than the second, to me...ah, crap, I don't know.
As far as the book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain goes, I'm working steadily through the lessons, and after drawing Piccasso's piece upside down, I drew the knight & horse upside down (which turned out crappily, but I do want to put it up sometime). I also tried blind contour drawing which I also failed miserably at. Oh well, I'll get it.
I also got a few drawing books from my mom's boyfriend that I have yet to put into use. I've also received a few tips from another artist (computer drawing artist, but nonetheless an artist) that's really good and I'm trying desperately to put into use too. This is the link.
And, that's all from me right now.
