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

#221

Man… How did I miss this thread… now I will have to put my homework on hold and start working on this… can someone please add about 7 more days to the week and another 24 hours to the day so I can do everything I need to do now… :scream:

#222

Hey Shaun, welcome back, comrade. We’ve ben missing you :slight_smile: Hope everything is fine for you now.
Take care.
-IS-

#223

Shaun,

Car accident… you o.k.? Sounds pretty serious - and here I was thinking it was a dodgy computer.

Hope to see you around the forum soon

MIKE

#224

I did a little more upside down drawing practice. I’m guessing that the point of the exercise is to examine and draw the details. If we don’t miss any details then the picture as a whole will turn out. (??)

Even so, I noticed my own reversion to scratchy lines, multiple times over the same location to get the approximation of the area I was drawing. Whereas the others that have posted seem to have done solid, single pass line drawings. (And the example in the book too)

Is there a specific method we should be striving for? eg. single pass flowing line, scratchy mutiple pass, or something else altogether.

I could certainly see taking my existing drawing and cleaning it up a lot, but I’m not sure if that’s the direction you intend us to take. (I’m using electronic medium, so doing that on layers would be fairly easy)

  Or is this worry over  nothing?  (eg. just shut up and draw  :)  )
  
  EDIT >>  Redid the exercise...

First attempt (scratchy lines)

Second attempt (trying to maintain solild line, single strokes)

This second attempt required more concentration, though I am still a long ways from being happy with my results. This is very hard, more difficult than the man in a chair.

#225

Dracofodder,

The point isn’t to have a beautiful clean drawing necessarily ~ it’s definitely not to practice cleaning it up in Photoshop. :slight_smile: You’ve done a great job here, but might I suggest re~attempting the exercise without using scratchy lines? I’ve nothing against scratchy lines in principle, but I think in a way, when you lift your pencil to go back over an area you’ve already done, you’ve lost your concentration a bit. I think you will get a cleaner drawing if you do the exercise (and I know this is probably hard) without much lifting the pencil to go back over lines which you have already created.

Hope you have time to do this, as I think it may be enormously beneficial. :slight_smile:

And no, you should never just ‘shut up and draw’. :scream:

Cheers,

~Rebeccak

#226

Hi all. Here is my Stravinsky. I know the lines haven´t the right size in most cases, i drew it with the left hemisphere in the major part of the drawing, i think.

I made too the vase/face exercise but i don´t show it cause i think its only for experiment anything new, and i experimented the confusion a bit.

Sorry for my criminal (horrible) english.

-David-

#227

David,

Good to see your work! :slight_smile: Looks like everyone is doing a great job! Trust me, your English is way better than my Spanish. :slight_smile:

Cheers, :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#228

have i missed the brief for the next exercise or is that still to come? please say it’s the childhood-drawing :bounce: haha!

anyways, have a nice monday everyone :scream:

cheers!

#229

If you don’t feel confident with your lines, one thing you might want to try is to ghost your line before you drop it, that is make the movement several times without having your pencil touching the paper. Then drop your line.
Also there is a basic exercice that might be usefull to you: take a pice of paper and draw two dots about 5 centimetres away from each other then try to connect them free hand (without ruler). Do it several times and as you feel more and more confortable, make the initial dots further away from each other.

Those two simple things helped me a lot. It might not work for you though :slight_smile:
Cheers.
-IS-

#230

It seems interesting. I´ll try it. Thank you for the idea.

Rebecca: If you can understand me, then i feel good.jejeje, thank you for the pacience.

Ciao.

#231

Rebecca: If you can understand me, then i feel good.jejeje, thank you for the pacience.

No worries. :wink:

Cheers, :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#232

Thanks, I currently “don’t” feel confident with my lines. I’ll try this exercise out.

#233

Dracofodder,

Once you feel as though you can hit two points in space a little way apart, try moving the points further apart. Ghost it a few times, and then drop in the line in one smooth action. DON’T WORRY IF YOU MISS THE SECOND POINT! :smiley: Whatever you do, don’t redraw the line again if you miss, as it starts to look less professional having lines overlapping. :sad:

Once you can do this comfortably, try creating perspective cubes using one line strokes freehand. Then cross the faces from corner to corner on each face using single strokes so you get a centre point. From here you can start practicing elipses… This is of course basic penmanship skills that all illustrators, draughtsmen and industrial designers need to practice to improve their 2D visualisation.

Hope that helps some! :slight_smile:

MIKE

#234

hey guys… i have read this fantasic thread 3 days ago… then i realise it take 2 weeks+ to ship the book over to australia. That’s where i live. :slight_smile: However, i manage to borrow the book from my uni’s library.

i have read 7 chapters in 2 days. i love this book. i love u guys (Rebeccak and Stick_S) who introduced this book to me.
Also i have done most of the exercises. i haven’t got a scanner, but i will go to my friend’s house to upload them let u guys have a look. :slight_smile:

i m just here to say thank u all for the great thread.

Cheersss…

#235

xxtan2,

Welcome to the forum! :slight_smile: ROFL, I think it’s Ms. Betty Edwards who deserves the thanks…her book has been instructing literally generations of beginning artists. I definitely recall struggling through her exercises. I think they were actually quite instrumental, at a certain level, for me. :slight_smile:

Glad you can join us! Don’t worry too much about the pace, we’re pretty relaxed here. The purpose is to do the exercises as you can.

Good luck, and look forward to seeing your work!

Cheers, :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#236

Hi!

It was really exciting discovering this forum, then this thread and reading all the posts here. I am about to order the book and try to join as soon as possible. I always tried to start drawing at home in the evening, but the with a lack of ideas and no support from other like minded people around, I did not get far :wink:

So here is another chance. Looking forward to joining you soon.

Cheers,

Marcus

#237

Oooo I am a beginner… and I happen to own the book so Yeah. I am in! it seems that many weeks have passed, but Ill catch up. :scream:

#238

Ines,

Awesome! We’d be happy to have you. :slight_smile:

Cheers, :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#239

Okay I will be doing Exercise 1- tomorrow, selfpotrait, someone from memory and hand… are we in exercise 2 yet? I didnt see any notice of exercise 2 starting… :slight_smile: want to know how far behind I am. :smiley: You should see my posts tomorrow night.

#240

Guys,

I apologize for the delay in getting things back on track, but I have tried contacting Shaun without success…perhaps his computer is down? For those of you who have been faithfully following along, please use this and next week to post the next exercise, and I will continue to try to contact Shaun.

Cheers, :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak