To New Waves

Blendy

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 | Drawings, SteveMack | 1 Comment

Working on some blending from The Big Book of Drawing. I’m finding that blending with a tissue takes a lot of effort. I should get some better blending stuffs.

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Etching

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 | Drawings, Jimsan | 6 Comments

I resketched and etched Mr. Frog on copper today, adding a bunch of minor details. Copper isn’t the best material to photograph.

Hours: 15.5/1000

An eye for detail

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 | Drawings, Jimsan | No Comments

Did a lot of detail work on this eye.

Hours: 15/1000

Freestyle eyes

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 | Drawings, Jimsan | No Comments

I drew these without using a reference. I’m going to go back to references so I can learn the eyenatomy better.

Hours: 14.5/1000

Draw by number

Monday, October 27th, 2008 | Drawings, SteveMack | No Comments

This is the first exercise in Lee Hammond’s Big Book of Drawing, where you draw a mixed up jigsaw puzzle of pieces into the correct spots, which turns out to be an upside-down horse, to prove to you that you are capable of drawing. I’ve done these before, but this one seemed kind of ridiculous with the 60 pieces, so I went and drew it right in the book. Heh. Took me a lot longer than it would have taken me if I was just drawing it from an upside-down copy, but probably more correct. I don’t like the idea of carrying a grid around with me to do this kind of visual work, but the results are easy to see.

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Eye try

Monday, October 27th, 2008 | Drawings, Jimsan | No Comments

I didn’t have time to draw during vacation (the abstract car doodles left something to be desired), but I’m back. I’m not finished with my Halloween illustration, but I decided to do a bit of eye study tonight.

Hours: 14/1000

By the number

Friday, October 24th, 2008 | Drawings, Jimsan | No Comments

About halfway done with this piece. Still lacks shading, background, extras, and some touch-ups on the outline.

Hours: 13.50/1000

Taking shape

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 | Drawings, Jimsan | No Comments

Fixing the lines a bit in preparation for color.

Hours: 12.50/1000

Ecaflip

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 | Drawings, Jimsan | No Comments

A rough of a piece I want to submit for a Dofus art contest. Maybe. I’ll most likely digitally touch up the proportions tomorrow.

Half a chance to finish your life

Hours: 11.45/1000

Batteries

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 | Drawings, SteveMack | No Comments

Camera isn’t turning on, so I guess it needs a recharge, and I’m not waiting for that since I want to sleep, so I’ll backdate tonights post tomorrow morning. Not much again anyway! In other news, I installed Google Analytics on the site, and did some optimizing after a report of poor page-load times. Let me know if there are issues.

Edit: That’s all I had done in thirty minutes, but I discovered two important things drawing those heads. The first thing I discovered was why I prefer to draw small. It’s because I can see the entire form more easily, and know when something is proportionally or perspective-ly out of whack. When it’s larger, I find myself not paying attention to it. Interesting, but now that I know it, I can account for it. And secondly, on the smaller head, I was learning some important lessons in perspective. I’m pretty good at perspective when it comes to straight lines and vanishing points and such, but it never made much sense to me organically. I can’t put my finger on what I figured out, but I found myself working out the perspective in the same way I’m learning to work out proportion. Neat, I guess. Sometimes it’s funny how you can learn a lot from something quick, and learn nothing at all from something longer. 🙂

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