Oh and I guess also here's 12 more pages of faces and heads: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lbassettart/ I do about four or five of these pages a day now.
Maybe one out of every five of ten on average is any good, which is pretty good odds of success to me.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Friday, October 10, 2008
Faces and Heads! Faces and Heads!
Doing so much life-drawing, figured I'd balance that out by going for some more comic style, cartoon head-face stuff. Well, origionally I was going to just draw hats, as you can see in the top-left here, but I decided that'd be too easy, and therefor boring, so changed that to faces and heads instead. For four pages.
Anyone else want to count them and see how many I did?
Well, I was having so much fun drawing comic style cartoon faces, it turns out I just turned the page and kept on going. Hit a sort of peak there where there were all these faces just dropping out of my pencil when I wasn't looking, plopping right down there on the page, I hardly even had to pay attention to it, faces just spewing out everywhere.
And the second page of faces fell out of the pencil so well, I kept right on going. Alternated between a soft 4b, and a 0.5mm mechanical pencil, for no particular reason, though the 4b was less finicky. I've always found mechanical pencils too sharp and narrow, though they can be convenient. I gotta do more faces in the future.
Turns out, first time doing concentrated face-drawing like this, it takes about four pages before I start to fade. They were still falling out of the pencil easily, but the 'holy crap, faces are coming outta my pencil' was starting to distract me. Decided to end it here rather than go on, at this point; the four pages in all took maybe an hour to get through.
Definately going to do this again.
Friday, October 3, 2008
More!
Started drawing bagels, or doughnuts, or donuts, you really can't tell from the pic, but was getting bored with them. Realized that the basic shape of a bagel is basically a loop, or torus - and got fancy with it. :)
Knots are hell of interesting to invent and draw.
This one was interesting. Was sitting outside, and a seagull landed on a post about ten feet away from me - luckily I was drawing leaves at the time, and I had about ten seconds to capture this before he figured out what I was and flew off - I'd have liked to get a full-body portrait, but seagulls aren't known for sitting still very often.
Not bad for a ten second sketch - I'd loved to have had ten minutes.
Another quick sketch while I was outside, this with one of those big 1" thich chunks of charcoal, which is rapidly becoming my favorite drawing tool. Wanted to capture the strong light on her face - she had an interesting expression, sort of staring off into the distance - not pensive, but not calm. Maybe just... taking it all in. Whatever it was, I hope I captured it here.
Life drawing! Two and a half hours every Thursday, it's the most fun I have every week. I've got tons of these, but the charcoal dust tends to stick to the scanner, so I don't often scan them - and they're usually drawn on 18" x 24" paper. Except for this Thursday - it was raining, and carrying newsprint outside in the rain is usually a bad idea, so I used regular three-hole punched printer paper instead. Which I gotta say, I actually enjoyed - not drawing as large as I'm used to really helped me to focus on the bigger picture, ironically enough - less room for small details means I'm less likely to get hung up on them.
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