As usual, I am completely frustrated by the poor quality of this photo… I actually like the drawing quite a bit. It’s in ink, india ink with a cheapo brush, mostly, plus a little bit of pen (the kind you dip). I’ve been told I’m “not as ugly as that” when I’ve showed this to people. I’d like my drawings of people to look better… the mouth always looks so tight, although maybe that’s partly because of my expression while drawing…
Ink sketches and some photos.
A sketch of my room as seen from the floor in front of the door. I like it a lot in person… the picture isn’t so great though (was on the wrong file saving settings when I took this, didn’t get great quality, plus poor lighting and clumsy Photoshopping…)
Tonight I made a less-than-30-minutes sketch of a view of my bedroom–sitting right at the base of the door. Odd spot, but very comfortable and an interesting viewpoint–roughly what my mini poodle sees as he walks in the door. I’ll post the sketch as soon as I can get a decent photograph; in the meantime, my thoughts:
The drawing (or painting? it’s in ink…) started with my bedpost and I knew going into it that I’d want to put my chair in there. I didn’t realize how necessary the desk was, and then of course the dresser followed because it just didn’t look right without it, and then the jewelry box on top of the dresser, and finally the window. It was interesting to watch it come together. Some bits are obviously out of proportion, but it’s a recognizable viewpoint (walk into my room and you can instantly find exactly where I drew it from). I
think the best part about this, for me, was that I pushed myself–not hard, mind you, but just enough to go from “safe” territory (of the bedpost) to the reckless grounds of the entire room, and entire page. It couldn’t have hurt that immediately before this, I loosened up with some sketches-from-life of my baby chickens. Luckily they were confined to a cage or they would have been impossible to capture at all. Five chickens x ten minutes = five pages of chicken heads, feet, and bodies. All roughly 5-second drawings. Sort of weird-looking now that I’m not also looking at the chickens, but a great exercise.
EDM #165: Draw the front of your house.
This is not the house I live at, but it is our house–it’s an old farmhouse that used to be on a dairy farm. The previous owners sold off most of the land gradually over the years, so the property has dwindled to about four and a half acres. I didn’t show this very well in the sketch, but the house is falling down–extremely decrepit–and is unlivable. We hope to salvage what we can, take it down, and rebuild it using environmentally-friendly construction methods.
Still twiddling with how to appropriately upload images. Don’t have a working scanner so this is from a photograph and, as a result, is not a particularly good quality image. This was about a 30-40 minute sketch in ballpoint-pen, I forget exactly which type but a fairly thin one — anyway, an unusual medium for me. I usually sketch in a fairly big, soft pencil, charcoal pencil, ink with dip pen, or a small everyday pencil (at school). I am sort of pleased with this one though. Wish I had worked more on some sort of shadow, but it was a black camera on a dark blue cloth cloth in low lighting and there just wasn’t much to write home about. :)
I’m having trouble getting WordPress to make thumbnails…
