In a recent chat with my husband about what I wanted from this art project, I said, “let’s face it, in terms of influence I’m—” Ted: starts laughing Me: What? Ted: I’m waiting for you to say ‘landing somewhere between Wendy Pini & Jim Lee’ and…well… I mean… o.o Me, vaguely indignant: well i was GOING to say Elfquest and X-Men, not Jim Lee specifically, but…yes……. I mean, I’m never going to be as good as either of them, but still, it was both funny and spot-on. But so anyway,…
Me, grumpily, to my husband, as I stared hatefully at all the upcoming “how to draw a REALISTIC tree/bird/frog/skull” things in my art project: do you know who else was a major influence on my style? PATRICK NAGEL. YOU KNOW. THE GUY WHO DID THIS KIND OF ART: Not gonna lie, guys, every step of this last ten hours has been a S T R U G G L E to get myself to do. I do not care about drawing realistic trees or photo-accurate cityscapes. I despise grid drawings.…
Against all odds (as far as I’m concerned), I’ve hit the 50 hour mark in the 100 hours project. I genuinely figured I’d crap out in the first twenty hours or so & have been baffled by peoples’ supportive conviction that I would, although my friend Kate pointed out people are REALLY ACCUSTOMED to seeing me finish creative projects, which, true! But those are BOOKS! I start & fail OTHER creative projects in public all the time! I tell you what, though, I like this so much more than knitting.…
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…
unrelated to most of anything else I might say, I noticed after a while that my rough hours breakdown of this project…was missing hours 30-40. :) Hours: 0-10: basic shapes 10-20: shading, perspective 20-30: perspective 30-40: IT’S A MYSTERY 40-60: objects, animals, beginning portraiture 60-100: portraiture …know how I said that having hit hour 20, I was confident I’d at least get to hour 25? Yeah, well, as it turns out, the early hours of the 20s were the first thing I’ve REALLY HATED doing and I would have at…