Saturday, March 7, 2009

Breaking bad habits (sorry for the time between posts)

Things have been super busy lately, so I send my apologies to anyone who (if anyone?) reads this blog on a regular basis.  Here are some things that have been on my mind:


I had to draw this flower fairly quickly and noticed some of my bad habits returning.   One of which is erasing my guidelines.



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I drew this girl (above) a few years back and did the same thing.  A year or so later, I started to notice my drawings moving to new heights of wonkiness (I dare not post here.)  When I wanted to go back to older drawings to see what went wrong, it hit me.  I had erased all my actual work!




Flash forward sometime later and I came across these Preston Blair drawing lessons on John K's blog!  I know what some of you (imaginary) are thinking, "aren't these lessons stylistically different from what you're doing, Grace?"  Well, yes and no.  They are only superficially dissimilar.   Everything I learned in Life Drawing class is here in these lessons, construction, proportion, perspective, and drawing hierarchy.  Click on the link below to go to his page.

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Above, is my attempt at the first lesson.  I have done more lessons since, but I'm ashamed to say I haven't finished them all yet.  I also need to scan the ones I have tried, I know, bad.

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some day

2 comments:

  1. haha, ur definatley not a fail. i wish i could draw/ design, i try but most of the time my artwork looks the same as it did in 5th grade...

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  2. Thanks! You should follow the link and try the lessons out yourself. They are big enough to print and it'll be fun. :D

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