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eye_of_toad) wrote2023-06-30 08:24 pm
eye_of_toad) wrote2023-06-30 08:24 pm
everyone's a critic
This is my roommate's cat expressing her opinion of my sketching.
The Drawesome Prompt this month was "Draw What You See" and I had to cheat and give up and take a photograph of my still life of junk and finish sketching it in my room. (After the walking-on-sketchbook and sitting-on-sketchbook, there was an active attempt to eat my pencil which is when I gave up.) I did do all the initial sketching and outline in person at least.
I was really excited about this prompt and had fantasies of doing a daily drawing this month. Drawing what's in front of you seems perfect for that sort of thing.
However, as usual, I put it off and put it off until suddenly it was the end of the month and I hadn't done a thing so I sketched this out quickly.
I did a pencil test up in the corner comparing a Faber-Castell Pitt Graphite Matt #14B with a simple Blick #6B and I don't see that the "14" is darker as such, but the matt pencil definitely is less shiny than the standard one. (I also started to do this with a blue colored pencil and quickly abandoned that idea due to the lack of contrast.)
This still feels a bit unfinished, but I'm giving up on it. Everything is all out of proportion and wrong and so I'm not motivated to make it pretty.
I really do need to spend a whole month practicing drawing from real life. It's so much harder than drawing from a photograph or imagination.
The Drawesome Prompt this month was "Draw What You See" and I had to cheat and give up and take a photograph of my still life of junk and finish sketching it in my room. (After the walking-on-sketchbook and sitting-on-sketchbook, there was an active attempt to eat my pencil which is when I gave up.) I did do all the initial sketching and outline in person at least.
I was really excited about this prompt and had fantasies of doing a daily drawing this month. Drawing what's in front of you seems perfect for that sort of thing.
However, as usual, I put it off and put it off until suddenly it was the end of the month and I hadn't done a thing so I sketched this out quickly.
I did a pencil test up in the corner comparing a Faber-Castell Pitt Graphite Matt #14B with a simple Blick #6B and I don't see that the "14" is darker as such, but the matt pencil definitely is less shiny than the standard one. (I also started to do this with a blue colored pencil and quickly abandoned that idea due to the lack of contrast.)
This still feels a bit unfinished, but I'm giving up on it. Everything is all out of proportion and wrong and so I'm not motivated to make it pretty.
I really do need to spend a whole month practicing drawing from real life. It's so much harder than drawing from a photograph or imagination.
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Practice is key though, that's for sure. That and letting go of the need to be accurate in every detail. I feel your pain!
letting go