I’m beginning to think I might get through this, guys.
I’ve finished my last 2 point perspective exercise, and by “finished” we mean “I’m exhausted and grumpy and hate it so I’m done and besides the point was the PERSPECTIVE not shading and I did that so :p” and also it turns out that neither of the courses I’m following really expect you to do any 3 point perspective, so honestly, I’m just not gonna. Not now.
The next stage is learning how to draw everyday objects by breaking them down into basic shapes, and I’m not gonna lie, I’m a little mad about how well it works. I can’t imagine that I didn’t learn this in art classes, or rather: I know I did in regards to HUMANS but I have very little or no recollection of doing it with other stuff.
I’ve never drawn a bird that well in my life. Not that I’ve drawn a lot of birds. But still. And it’s not right, its balance is off, but it’s still EASILY the best bird I’ve ever drawn.
The little basic shapes bird above the more finished bird sketch is, uh, what I’m supposed to be doing, but I got carried away with a butterfly:
I also remembered, with the butterfly, to try to do the ‘measure the parts of it against your pencil/the other parts of the picture’ and I’m pretty happy with my proportions on it.
I have about…eight drawings I’m supposed to do from the 100 Hours course, and more for the Udemy course (which is on ‘still life,’ so basically the same thing), and I’m 100% not supposed to be rendering most as semi-finished drawings like the butterfly is but…I probably will anyway. I mean, it’d be a lot faster to just do the actual basic shapes, but…since the next part is “and then keep going,” I feel okay about doing the “and keep going” part from here, because I’m not a rank beginner, y’know? IDK. Yeah. Anyway.
So, um, I’ve been doing this for 2 months now and have done about 40 hours, which is simultaneously a little faster than I expected (I planned for it to be a 6 month project) and at this point, a little slower than I wish I was going. I feel like I’m learning things and I want to be better sooner now, please, and to get to move on to other stuff.
Although honestly the pacing is pretty good because I was SICK of perspective by the time I did that cityscape (and yet I also have several photos downloaded to do more with) and I’ve moved on to something else now, so yeah, that timing is pretty good.
…and I’m suddenly reminding myself that I’m doing TWO courses at the same time and that if I was just doing the 100 Hours thing all by itself I would be…halfway through that course by now, probably, because the way I’m keeping myself from getting ahead of the hours is really by doing both courses, because I’m not a rank beginner.
Hnh. Well. Yeah. Okay. I should probably keep that in mind.
Anyway, so there’s my art update for the week. :)