Um, so, little known fact about me... I like Pride and Prejudice. I was watching the 1995 TV version yesterday and Mr Darcy's Shirt ruffles grabbed my attention. I paused it and quickly sketched it down, then later on Elizabeth's hat caught my attention.
The bottom picture is my friend Rose again, it is another of the poses she did for me the other week, I have just cleaned it up and worked on it a little more. She had a great expression on her face.
The x-ray I found via google (AJ Photo/Science Photo Library) and thought it was just fantastic! If anyone has any other x-rays they want to share I would love to see them!
The baby hands belong to the children of a friend of mine. The centre hand belongs to a 2yr old and the rest belong to a 4yr old. Thank you Oscar and Dexter for being great models!
Hm, picture on the last does not look right. Proportions of head do not match the body. I think you need to be looking more at face structures of you're people drawings. The eyes seem to mismatch a lot of time. A good trick for this is to hold you're picture up to a mirror and you will see how wrong it alls look! Also, x-ray picture may have been drawn to more effect. Is still looking like scribbles.
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Thank you for your words. I do understand what you're saying about my shading looking 'scratchy', and in honesty I did that x-ray picture before you mentioned it previously. I tried to work on it lke you said but it was too late. However, this is supposed to be a sketchbook project, and I have been informed that I need to start easing up on the massive detail. If this was to be a professional standard picture I will use your advice and smooth the shading out, but sketchbooks are meant to be for notes, ideas, scribbling things down. I admit, I'm not 100% sure what the college want but I do know they don't expect perfection now and I will learn to make things better in time. I'm always grateful to hear your thoughts though.
ReplyDeleteThis I understand but also to know that sketchbooks are there for you to for improve. You must look at you're workings and see the errors. The faces you draw have something wrong and this could be corrected through the sketchbook. Try not to be thinking that sketchbooks are there for to think "that will do" - they are there to help with improvement. You need to be having a more critical look at you're works rather than just to be pleased with all you do. This way is where the improvement comes!
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Sorry, I didn't mean that I wouldn't be trying to learn, or that I had free reign to scribble away as I please. I meant that I was worrying about it to a point of no sleep and my friend had to sit me down and make me chill out a bit. I want this to be perfect and I can't, at this moment, figure out how I'm doing it so wrong. I have been advised not to worry about it until I start college and the tutors can watch me and advise me. But, until then, I need to relax.
ReplyDeleteI will get better at this.
I'm thinking that you try and create something that is too finished and this is where you're drawings are looking odd. When you drawed this "Mr Darcy", I am seeing that you did not roughly place his features with light sketching to get proportions correct. You drew straight into trying to make finished image. This is wheres you're work starts to look deformed and not too right. Take your time and try not to be making something that muct look pollished. You are missing out vital steps to making your work better!
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