BEGINNERS' Drawing Workshop - Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

#101

Welcome back Shaun; My entry will follow in a day or two.

#102

Hi, here is my first exercise. Took me just under an hour.

20 minutes here. I am satisfied with the look of my hand. I’ve done my hand two or three times before
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b341/deepociankid/The%20right%20side%20of%20my%20brain/hand1.jpg

My child from memory. The book holds truth to this exercise. I don’t like this picture much. Spent 5 minutes on it.
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b341/deepociankid/The%20right%20side%20of%20my%20brain/memorypic1.jpg

My self portrait. Spent 25 minutes here.
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b341/deepociankid/The%20right%20side%20of%20my%20brain/portrait1.jpg

My pictures are dark around the edges, sorry. I only have internet access on my parents computer right now and its extremely slow, so touch ups are hard to work with.

Thanks for looking at my work.

#103

Hi All!!

Ive bought the book few weeks ago and now ive find this thread!!yujuuu. So here are my drawings. They took me under an hour. I drew with pencil and scanned. From now i`ll work with the wacom.

I think two weeks per chapter its ok, and if we see that its a lot of time we can shorten to one week.

Sorry for my very bad english.

Selfpotrait:

My hand:

And my mother:

HAsta luego!!

#104

DeepOcianKid and Basie,

Great to see you guys here! :slight_smile: Thank you for posting your work. Glad you are participating, and hope to see more of your work in the future. :slight_smile:

Cheers! :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#105

Ah this is a cool thread. I bought the book a couple a weeks ago but didnt start it (only the first one, cause my drawings looks horrible). This thread is motivating me to go on further in the book.

Dont laugh of my drawings pls if i post them haha ;).
Tommorrow i going to scan them.

#106

Purc,

No one is going to ‘laugh’ at your work. :slight_smile: The purpose here is definitely to learn. Good luck, and look forward to seeing your work! :slight_smile:

Cheers,

~Rebeccak

#107

i’d laugh. then you can be :blush:. then i will post my work and everyone can laugh. wee!

#108

schnappy,

Ah. My day just got more entertaining. :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#109

wow, this thread is getting busy! and since we’re talking about laughing, here is my third part of the first exercise: the portrait from memory. i hope i can cheer up everybody’s day with this one :scream:

it’s supposed to be my brother… he won’t like that one :smiley:

and the other 2 drawings:

#110

BernieK,

Lol ~ at your comments, not your drawing. :slight_smile: Thanks for posting! Will you be posting the self~portrait and hand exercise as well?

Cheers, :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#111

check page 7 on this thread for my other drawings (sorry that i didn’t post it in one go…)

cheers!

EDIT: btw, i just edit my posts so all drawings are in one post…

#112

BernieK,

Oh, duh, sorry for that! It’s 10 am here and I’m not usually awake on the weekends before noon, so, you know how it is. :slight_smile:

Thanks for restructuring! Hope you have found this exercise useful so far, and will be participating in the next round ~ Exercise 2 begins in one week! :slight_smile:

Hey! You and your brother definitely look alike! :slight_smile:

Cheers, :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#113

Hello fellows,
here are my assignments:

  1. Self portrait:

  1. Portrait of Amélie, my niece (sorry for the crapy scan):

  1. My left hand :slight_smile: :

Bye.
-IS-

#114

Igor,

Thanks for posting! I think your hand sketch is especially nicely done. :) Ok...so I have to ask...do you really have a niece named Amelie? Does she run around shyly doing nice things for people? :scream: I am just kidding, I am insanely jealous of cool names. :) 

Good to see you here. Let me know how your book delivery is coming. :)

And remember guys…new exercise in one week!

Cheers, :)

~Rebeccak
#115

hehe Yes she’s called Amélie and she loves Babar
Thanks for your comment on my drawings, Rebecca.
Bye bye.
-IS-

#116

~Sandman - the vein on that hand bothers me. if you look at your hand your spider veins are covered with skin, so the edges or inserts of the vein are not so prominent.

depending on lighting/the angle of your hand they become less or more visible. so what i am saying is pay attention to lighting. even draw at night using the light from your computer monitor if it helps.

so in theory depending on where you look when you shade the hand, on side of the vein would have a very dark and noticable shadow and leading away it would get lighter. there by giving the illusion.

#117

Hi Guys,

Igor I just want to say “can you see the improvement in your drawings”. There are the portraits which are little rough (just being honest…they are howvwer a great start). Then there is the hand, which shows a great deal of improvement. Allready with a ltiitle bit of constructive practice (you are forced to look at an actual object vs. making one up) you can allready see the difference. The hand shows great promise as the forms and masses look good. The structure and anatomy are a tad off. That is okay though becuase you have really begun to see things spatially and that is exciting. Good job and keep up the good work.
Really, in all sincerity great improvment.

Shaun

#118

BernieK

I like the shading. I can really appreciate that you are going for form through the use of shading in conjunction with line. This is something the book covers later on and I am hoping we can really expand on that for you. Good job.

Shaun

#119

Ocean Kid and Basie,

Really glad you decided to join. I see a really good and earnest effort. You guys as well are off to a good start. We are all a little rough around the edges but it is really great to watch people improve with the just the first 3 drawings. good job guys!

Shaun

#120

Thank you Shaun and schnappy for your comments. The vein is completely off indeed. The truth is it sticked out so much (I should see a doctor :slight_smile: ) that I couldn’t put my eyes away from it. I should have made it softer.
Oh yeah congrats to the others. I know by experience that it’s hard to take the first step and post crapy pictures on such a forum as cgtalk :deal:
Bye.
-IS-