Art dump

[amberdreams]

The Creative Sketchbooking course has been more about drawing stuff this term so far - much more my comfort zone than playing with flour and chalk.
I posted the right hand page before but the umbrella pic is new.

Here it is close up. Drawn with a Japanese brush felt tip pen.

Then last week we were trying to measure and get perspective by using one point on a reference picture and then scanning out from here to any points of interest. It was hard! But this time I chose a photo from a nice coffee table book about the TV series of Game of Thrones.

And again this week, we were trying using water to soften lines so this is using a black watercolour pencil. I know nothing, Jon Snow!

I love the effects, so I'll definitely be trying this again, though I did my usual thing of getting the nose and hence the whole face too long.
Got to admit, now I'm taking my own source pics, I'm enjoying the whole thing a lot more!

Comments

[be-my-precious.livejournal.com]

you are incredibly talented!!! i say that every time you post art, but i just HAVE to say it all the time!

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

And you are very kind! :D

[be-my-precious.livejournal.com]

thank you :) i'm honestly looking into getting back into drawing people again. (i used to costume design in college). i can still draw well.. landscapes, houses, random objects, ... but people just left me behind for some reason. and of course, i'm choosing to draw a person that is too freaking beautiful for me to do them justice... Jensen lol. i've already scraped a multitude of ones i have started heh. i'm not sure what number try i'm on now.

and i've always been interested in digital art and how it works. i want to know if it'll be something i'd be interested in.

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Oh Jensen is SO hard to draw! I think it's because he has those perfect proportions, and so it's hard to catch a likeness and not make him look kind of anodyne.

I never used digital before I started SPN artings - I started using a pretty good free software program called GIMP - it does pretty much everything Photoshop does, so it's a good place to start. I would say it you play around with it and think you might like it, it's worth buying a drawing tablet to use, because trying to freehand draw using a mouse or keyboard is really difficult! Or if you have a tablet (iPad type) there are free drawing apps you can try too, though they don't have layers (which is a marvellous invention!).