I’m having a stupidly good time doing this art class thing, probably because I haven’t started doing anything boring yet. I am, however, FULLY MAKING IT HARDER FOR MYSELF because, to paraphrase Bette Davis, “The hard way is the only way to do it.”
So I did the opening challenge to draw a book on a table, a coffee cup, a doughnut & a house (using no references), and for some fricking reason I did 3/4ths of it as a frickin’ still life…
…followed by drawing my house. Or part of my house. I clearly need a piece of paper roughly 6 times the size of this one, except I would have just drawn it bigger if I had one, so. I kind of feel like I should do this again and try to get a whole house on a page.
DO NOT ASK WHERE THE LIGHT COMES FROM, OBVIOUSLY I DO NOT KNOW
Aside from establishing a baseline skill level, the other point of doing these drawings was (for the original guy doing this, anyway) to establish a boredom baseline. I spent 2, maybe 2.5 hours on these sketches, so basically 30-35 minutes a sketch. So…idk how easily bored that means I am, altho yer man in the video apparently took about 20 minutes total for his 4 drawings, so. :)
Only then I discovered this tutorial doesn’t just have coursework, it has a TEXTBOOK. Hnf. I thought it was all from the videos listed on the video. All right, fine, I bought Mark Kistler’s YOU CAN DRAW IN 30 DAYS, in which the first task is to “draw a house, an airplane, a bagel” with no references, 2 minutes each.
me: sure yes no problem
also me: wtf does an airplane look like
also also me: wtf does a BAGEL look like, for that matter, besides a sad doughnut
Having accomplished these important things (and having decided the 2 minute sketch of the house counts as drawing the whole house for the above purposes), I went to watch the first video Our Heroes linked to (watch from 2:10, they say) and ended up filling a page with squares and circles and triangles and a few cones and spheres and things. Apparently my homework for tomorrow is
- draw 4 spheres, cubes, cones & cylinders (each), and
- do chapter one of Tedium Central, which is to say, the draw in 30 days book.
Anyway, I haven’t given up on the project that starts with ‘draw an eye’ and I’m thinking I’ll interject some of its lessons with this one because the first 50 hours or more of this one is incredibly tedious. It’s also the stuff I need to learn. But it’s still tedious.
So this is my current idea of fun. It may stop being my idea of fun in a few hours, but for now, it’s fun. :)