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original marker drawing versus digital edit
alien zombie?
Jun. 27th, 2022 06:46 pmYet another drawing for the "Fresh Eyes" practice from Love Life Drawing (which I will again co-opt and claim counts toward the "negative space" prompt for ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
drawesome.)
Here's the photo of the paper model compared to the finished marker drawing.
I don't know why, but I'm enjoying messing around with the cheapest art supplies. I've got a handful of Copic markers and quite a few more Blick (basically Copic knock-offs) and I stress out about using up too much of the expensive ink. I do not stress out at all about ruining my Mr. Sketch markers. So even though they are objectively worse markers, I enjoy the process of using them more.
As you can see, it's very easy to knock the paper model out of alignment, so it's kind of a pain. If I planned to do this much longer, I'd think about gluing the pieces to a rougher cardstock (like I could even see the benefit of having them backed with rubber or felt or something else that didn't slide easily). However, I think the whole point of this practice is that when I've done a few (ten?) practice sessions, I'm supposed to just see the proportions in my head without messing with the fiddly bits anymore.
Anyway, I'm still on day "one" because I'm lazy and also I keep getting distracted wasting unnecessary time with digital edits.
As usual, I can never quite decide which of these is my favorite, but I'm kind of fond of...( this annoying blinking version that I'll hide behind a cut )
Perhaps for full "negative space" credit, I need to remove the skeletal frame.
I should probably mention that the original photograph that I was trying to reproduce was a normal human man stretching to the side. But I did something with the neck that made the shoulders look all hunched up and the bend in the torso is weird and what I ended up with just screamed "alien zombie" to me.
For all the time I spent playing around with digital edits, I'm still kind of fond of the plain original marker drawing.
drawesome.)Here's the photo of the paper model compared to the finished marker drawing.
I don't know why, but I'm enjoying messing around with the cheapest art supplies. I've got a handful of Copic markers and quite a few more Blick (basically Copic knock-offs) and I stress out about using up too much of the expensive ink. I do not stress out at all about ruining my Mr. Sketch markers. So even though they are objectively worse markers, I enjoy the process of using them more.
As you can see, it's very easy to knock the paper model out of alignment, so it's kind of a pain. If I planned to do this much longer, I'd think about gluing the pieces to a rougher cardstock (like I could even see the benefit of having them backed with rubber or felt or something else that didn't slide easily). However, I think the whole point of this practice is that when I've done a few (ten?) practice sessions, I'm supposed to just see the proportions in my head without messing with the fiddly bits anymore.
Anyway, I'm still on day "one" because I'm lazy and also I keep getting distracted wasting unnecessary time with digital edits.
As usual, I can never quite decide which of these is my favorite, but I'm kind of fond of...( this annoying blinking version that I'll hide behind a cut )
Perhaps for full "negative space" credit, I need to remove the skeletal frame.
I should probably mention that the original photograph that I was trying to reproduce was a normal human man stretching to the side. But I did something with the neck that made the shoulders look all hunched up and the bend in the torso is weird and what I ended up with just screamed "alien zombie" to me.
For all the time I spent playing around with digital edits, I'm still kind of fond of the plain original marker drawing.
I've started working my way through the Love Life Drawing "Fresh Eyes" figure drawing lessons. It involves copying photographs using a paper-doll frame to get the proportions right. (The goal is to be able to eventually do it automatically without having to resort to the cheat, but I still very much need the cheat at the moment.)
photo of the paper model compared with marker drawing and first digital edit:
My biggest struggle with digital art is knowing when to call it done. I want to keep playing with filters and effects indefinitely. But I think this last edit here is my favorite and I'm going to count it towards this month'sdrawesome prompt (#45: Negative Space).
I'm going to try and do a few more before I pick which one(s) to post todrawesome though.
photo of the paper model compared with marker drawing and first digital edit:
My biggest struggle with digital art is knowing when to call it done. I want to keep playing with filters and effects indefinitely. But I think this last edit here is my favorite and I'm going to count it towards this month's
drawesome prompt (#45: Negative Space).I'm going to try and do a few more before I pick which one(s) to post to
drawesome though.
Drawesome Prompt #45 (Negative Space)
Jun. 25th, 2022 01:19 pm
I've done some cool things with negative space before so this month's
drawesome prompt should be right up my alley. I feel a little meh about this first attempt though. The proportions are off, the composition is terrible, there was no plan at all with the color scheme.I've been saying for ages that I want to practice my figure drawing and I think this a good exercise to do it with, so hopefully I'll get one or two more done soon and have something else to post.
(I need to dig around and see if I can find any of those older drawings with negative space that I think were cool.)
