Enter Cameron, from Paint Myself Pretty. She has decided to tackle one exercise a week and blog about it, and has
Lab 1 - "Cats in Bed"
The idea was to draw lots and lots of cats from your imagination, while drawing on a soft surface (such as bed) to keep your lines loose. Here are my bed kitties. I tried and tried to make a different shaped cat (without going to google and looking at other people's cat drawings). My brain seems to know ONE way to draw a cat (and not a very good one at that).
Lab 2: blind contour giraffes
Okay, so it's not a giraffe. It's another cat. And in fact I skipped this exercise in the interest of catching up with assignments, and pulled out a blind contour drawing I made of Jake 6 months ago. I'll go back and do some giraffes. I swear.
Lab 3: Pet gesture drawings. The mission was to make a series of quick loose gesture drawings of your pet in action. It was challenging because one cat would't stop moving and the other sat like a lump. But I kept at it throughout the day and captured quite a few poses. I even like a few of them:
Good job! I have that book too- I've had it for a year, and I have done nothing. I'm inspired to pull it off of the shelf today. I HAVE made 4 drawings for rubber stamp carving though.... pretty excited to dig in. Loved the stamps you made and the ones that Pamela posted on her Blog- very cool!
ReplyDeleteI recently got this book too and I'm not working through them in order but in order of what catches my interest. I posted my dog drawing sketches, my one lines, my "famous artist" style, etc. I like the exercises because I CAN"T draw but these don't feel intimidating somehow. Fun to see what you accomplished.
ReplyDeleteThat's what I liked about this book when I bought it.....that it's not so much an emphasis on drawing well, but discovering little surprises about yourself and your ability as you play.
ReplyDeleteI draw fairly well....but I don't play well. I wanted to focus more on that aspect....and tell my inner Phyllis to take a hike :D
I love what you've done with the lessons so far! (...and I think you can skip the giraffe....that one of Jake is great!)
I guess I did sorta beg, huh?! haha!
Glad you joined in :)
One of the most valuable lessons I learned in art school? You might have to draw a thing over and over for 100 times before you learn how to draw it well. Mr. K didn't lie. I can draw a pear in my sleep! Just draw a thing until you can do it without a model or reference. For real, gurl. :)
ReplyDeleteLooks like you've been working hard! I'm still behind, but I'm enjoying the catching up experience. Onward and upward!
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