Archive for February, 2009
A drawing of an old man with pencil and watercolor.
Yep, here’s a drawing of seth and his cat and little large nosed gary at the bottom.
Ah president’s day. Here are some different sketches of a girl blowing bubbles. The second one is done with sharpie marker and watercolor on a piece of plastic as I have been doing lately.
Here’s some sketches I did for a tattoo for my friend George Ann. She wanted a “Sailor Jerry” style tattoo in black which I don’t think I accomplished. Oh well. I used pencil and a brush pen for everything here.
Here’s a quick sketch I did on a piece of plastic with a sharpie marker. I was trying to get some ideas for a drawing I’m doing of a woman eating something. This is what came out and I thought it looked pretty cool.
This is the next drawing I did out of the “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain” book. This project required me to copy a drawing of Igor Stravinsky done by Pablo Picasso but to copy it upside down. The concept is that you if you are only looking at the drawing upside down then you can’t really associate the drawing with a person or hands or a face and just draw what is actually there.
It was interesting.
A friend gave me a copy of this book called “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain” It comes highly recommended by a bunch of people so I figured I would give it a shot. I’ve started to read it and it seems pretty cool.
Besides the slightly bizarre “left and right side of the brain” parts of the book it seems to mainly focus on the idea of seeing like an artist instead of the technical skill of drawing.
I’ve done the first three drawings you are supposed to do without any instruction as sort of a baseline. The one below is a self portrait which I don’t actually like very much. I look cross eyed and stunned. It actually makes me a little sad at the amount of skills I have lost. Now that I’ve uploaded it, though, I am a little happy with the way the hair turned out. Sigh.
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learning to sketch again in one year…