06.15.07
Drawings from 10-06-07
Here’s a scan of a drawing I did last Sunday while Sophie was playing with the other children in the park.
06.14.07
More drawings 13-06-07
Yesterday evening I took Sophie to her squash lesson. While watching her playing I did a few drawings. The first was a very quick sketch done with Pocket Artist on the PDA. I think I’m slowly getting better at bodies.
The battery then gave up and I had to find some paper to do these. Lots more study and practice needed on heads..
05.18.07
Humans and Vectorsoft Draw
I’ve always been a visual person, liked drawing and did Art and Engineering Drawing at school. I was alright with still life but any people I drew looked like cartoons. The proportions were always wrong.
A number of years ago I bought Vectorsoft Draw for my HP Jornada when version 1.23 was current. I though I’d lost it but recently found a copy on a small Compact Flash card, it works just fine on the TyTN. I’ve started drawing again, and found the site “Invention to Human Figure” by Riven Phoenix. He’s got a fantastic series of lessons on how to draw the human figure. The first set of lessons are online as YouTube videos, a 5 disc DVD set with all of the videos in full is only £35. When you see his client list includes the likes of LucasFilm and ILM you know the guy’s good.
I took one of my wire frame figures drawn to Riven’s rules and put it over a photo of myself. It’s a reasonably good fit.
Sophie and I have gone through lessons 1 and 2 of 227. After only these two lessons our drawings are already looking better.
Only another 225 to go!