2.7

Well, I’ll try to keep this blog short and simple. Excuses aside, I only did one drawing this week so I will not write a ton about it.

I ended up drawing another human figure, it took quite a long time  to draw, and to add to that the dimensions where not right at first, so I had to redraw them. I did this on my first two humans, so I figured that this time I would draw the picture, and see if the dimensions were right, then draw details. I did this, but by the time I ‘thought’ the proportions were right, I was so tired I did not realise the truth. Long story short, I drew all the details in, thought “wow this is great”, showed it to my mom, and she laughed. It turned out the legs were too short, and I redid them the next day when I could finally see that they were wacky looking. Next time I will look up human dimensions, and actually measure it out.

You may notice that she is much better than my last two people. I was able to draw actual clothes on her, that looked not skin tight, and I was able to draw her in a difficult-to-draw position. The only thing that still bugs me is her hand. When I think about it, the hand is in the right position, but something seems a bit off. If you can tell what seems wrong about it feel free to comment as to what that is.

Last but not least, there is a line right where the thigh that should be covered up by the other thigh held in a bend position. I did not forget to erase this. What actually happened was I happened to drag my pencil across the paper very hardly, coquenadedlty right where the other thigh should be. So in conclusion: no, she does not have see-through legs, I just could not erase that mark.

Anyways, drawing was a fun project for me, and good luck to all of you on your Ted Talks.

2.6

So this week I my main project was drawing the human figures; I drew a boy and a girl. They are not art by any means, but a) they actually look like a humans, and b) they do not look like motionless robots. So I’ll call it a success.

I did not use the drawing book on this. I’ve seen people draw humans with two triangles for the hips and the chest then connect them together. I also figured that it would not be much different than drawing animals.

The proportions on the girl are pretty accurate. At first I drew the knees way to low on her leg. I would say that the shins made up only about ⅛ of the entire leg. Of course, I only not noticed this after I drew her calves, her boots, and thighs. It took much extra time to have to redraw the knees higher. The other things that I had to correct was making the back of her head bigger, and making her shoulders and chest much smaller. Lucky I saw this at the beginning of the process.

As for the boy, I did not see that his chest and shoulders seemed abnormally big until I had already drawn his arms in position they are in. I also had to make one shoulder slightly smaller than the other since his shoulders are slightly turned. By time I did notice his abnormalities, it was too late- I was not going back and redrawing all of it. So take it for what you will; maybe he’s a bodybuilder.

Another challenge I encountered was drawing clothes on the people. You would be surprised to learn that it is really hard. Depending on the way their bodies are positioned, the clothes will have wrinkles in certain spots and will fall in asymmetrical positions. So I made both of them wear shorts and a skin tight tank top as these do not move very fluently. The thing I am most proud of, looking back on this project, is definitely the hands and the shoes. They are small, but very hard to draw. In both of my drawings they look very realistic. Ironically, they did not take a very long time to draw.

Lastly, I drew a picture of a tree hanging over a green lake somewhere where it is tropical. I looked off a picture online, but I drew it without as much detail as in real life. Almost like if someone looked at the scene without glasses. I drew it with these pencils that are supposed to look like watercolors. So after you draw the picture, you wet the paper and it becomes a watercolor picture.

After water was added

Before water was added

I have to say that it looks nice, but it wasn’t as pretty as I thought it would be. I can not put my finger on why that is. Maybe I just did not use enough colors.  Anyways, I probably will not use the water color pencils in any of my near-future drawing, but it was fun to experiment with them.