Recently, I've been spending a lot of my time doing college related things. There's still so much to do and I think my biggest struggle so far is roommate hunting. But let's ignore all of this and focus on non-college stuff! Like always, I've been taking my dog out on her daily walks, so far she has giving me struggles considering the fact she likes eating random food off the ground. It's pretty gross to watch and she always manages to do it with the one second of me looking away! She's not the smartest dog but I would appreciate her not going for a dead bird on the sidewalk. Along with this I've made gyoza! My family had leftover gyoza meat and just recently bought gyoza skin so why not right? It turned out really tasty, not as good as it fresh (the leftover meat got frozen) but still, it doesn't matter. I've been drawing a lot (when am I not I guess?) but more often than usual. I've been getting in the practicing and online lessons I need but I've also been drawing for other reasons. I've been thinking about what I wanted to do for my main project, I've had some difficulties since I want it to be something I'm interested in and I think finally I've decided. There's this sketch I made a while back that's quite old and based off one of my favorite animes. I think it's time I redraw it and I think it'd be great to redraw since there's a lot of things in the old drawing that matches perfectly with what I am currently Imlearning! I'm mostly excited for drawing the hands since I did learn quite a lot. Along with that I want to experiement more with the perspective and posing of everything. Either this or I may do something involving some other characters of mine and them in some kind of environment. My main struggles will mostly be lighting and shadows, I still don't understand how those work yet exactly.
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I've been spending most of my time drawing for fun of a variety of things. But also enjoying going outdoors with my dog and little brother. We go on walks and just explore around the area because we're still new to it. I don't have pictures of us on the walks but here's one of my dog. But let's focus on this project instead of my dog. Even before this little learning project of mine started, I was attempting to draw thing in perspectives without proper knowledge. Watching the videos from the perspectives class I'm currently taking brought me back to the basics. I've done this before in the past in Dan Allen's class but at this point I somewhat forgot and needed a refresher. First, I started out drawing things I already knew how to do and examining my past work I've done to see how my perspectives are. Already, I could tell a lot was wrong with it. I don't use a horizon line or even a specific point to focus on for the background and just draw. Each object ends up having it's own perspective and makes it all look off. I did use a lot of references though but even with that I didn't have much understanding of perspectives in order to do it right. But along the way I realized there were bigger things I wanted to practice on other than perspectives. I really want to learn how to draw hands properly and in more dynamic/ different positions. A lot of the times when I draw hands they look really off or I'm too lazy to draw all the fingers right. I also lack a lot of details and the hand ends up looking empty. I'm having difficulties in choosing what exactly I want to focus on for improvement or if I should dedicated a few days to different things overall, and at the end I combine all this together to make one big art piece. I could end up showing this off during my senior exit interview.
I might end up changing what I want to learn how to draw possibly? I'm not sure yet but I feel more comfortable learning about how to draw hands. |
Photo used under Creative Commons from G. Lamar