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May. 1st, 2008 12:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
phthalombrageGot graphite smudged on the side of my right hand and it feels pretty great.
Still kind of wish I were left-handed, though. Just 'cause.
Know I'm supposed to be working on other things, but I decided to draw Liz because I now have a reference pic. Carolyn still needs to be smoother and I need to dig my ebony pencil out of hiding for her (I'd find it while moving anyway), and Liz is not very far along, but I like where I left her for now. I got it from looking human, that's a start, to looking Liz-ish. Rough at present, but definitely identifiable.
I have a feeling officer bios will take shape based on what kinds of emotions are in these pictures. As well as a few other things I've been throwing around. I am going to try to be a good CorSec. At least for the first few months...
I'm curious to see what other sorts of photo I will get from the rest of Exec, what images they like and choose to represent them. I suppose it might also be awkward fun to try to have them sit for it, but it sounds like it will end in utter disaster.... or just embarrassment on my part at failure to capture resemblance. Drawing takes a long time, especially when people move. (I never get my professors completely convincingly. Heh.) I'm not actually an artist, I'm just a girl who likes the smell of paper, the feel of a lead wearing off onto the page, occasional distraction from the daily bombardment of maths. I can condescend to use reference photos, :P. I'm not cheating because they are already pre-flattened; it's just more practical for me. (But I still won't use black unless it's ink. And I would totally be more snobby/stubborn about ink if I didn't make so many inkblots with fountain pens without the nice little cartridge... which I still like because I am a whore for that sort of thing.) These are just going to look like people. They aren't going to be Art. (Marc le voit blanc. C'est sa limite. Marc le voit blanc parce qu'il s'est enferré dans l'idée qu'il était blanc...)
Damn, I should be less of a perfectionist. Lol, whoops, failing at school, okay!
I think I'm going to go with graphite sketches for all so I only spend a few hours on each and because I am very comfortable with that, but I'd really like to experiment with some paints that aren't watercolors and try to break out of my rut of just drawing and/or using paint that is super easy to re-mix, layer, remove, and put away when you are done. Colored drawing implements are a bit too "safe", but I rarely have the patience to use them very realistically. Might want to work on that? I spend so long on colors, though...
I like having people to draw that aren't me. Other people are so interesting, but I'm afraid to ask to draw them for fear of making an abomination. I have so many bad self-portraits I got disgusted with in high school. I feel kind of creepy drawing my friends, but it's fun to debug the drawing process and see which lines and shadows, once tweaked, make Carolyn or Liz out of "some girl", now that I kind of decided I have their permission?
I am excited for summer to begin. New things to deal with and slightly more freedom. I will grow! In the meantime, oh, shit, programming, why, Nicole, dumb girl. Somehow I have to find a way to not feel like a retard doing this stuff so I will look forward to it again too. I really enjoyed it when I wasn't afraid of failing so hard.
Still kind of wish I were left-handed, though. Just 'cause.
Know I'm supposed to be working on other things, but I decided to draw Liz because I now have a reference pic. Carolyn still needs to be smoother and I need to dig my ebony pencil out of hiding for her (I'd find it while moving anyway), and Liz is not very far along, but I like where I left her for now. I got it from looking human, that's a start, to looking Liz-ish. Rough at present, but definitely identifiable.
I have a feeling officer bios will take shape based on what kinds of emotions are in these pictures. As well as a few other things I've been throwing around. I am going to try to be a good CorSec. At least for the first few months...
I'm curious to see what other sorts of photo I will get from the rest of Exec, what images they like and choose to represent them. I suppose it might also be awkward fun to try to have them sit for it, but it sounds like it will end in utter disaster.... or just embarrassment on my part at failure to capture resemblance. Drawing takes a long time, especially when people move. (I never get my professors completely convincingly. Heh.) I'm not actually an artist, I'm just a girl who likes the smell of paper, the feel of a lead wearing off onto the page, occasional distraction from the daily bombardment of maths. I can condescend to use reference photos, :P. I'm not cheating because they are already pre-flattened; it's just more practical for me. (But I still won't use black unless it's ink. And I would totally be more snobby/stubborn about ink if I didn't make so many inkblots with fountain pens without the nice little cartridge... which I still like because I am a whore for that sort of thing.) These are just going to look like people. They aren't going to be Art. (Marc le voit blanc. C'est sa limite. Marc le voit blanc parce qu'il s'est enferré dans l'idée qu'il était blanc...)
Damn, I should be less of a perfectionist. Lol, whoops, failing at school, okay!
I think I'm going to go with graphite sketches for all so I only spend a few hours on each and because I am very comfortable with that, but I'd really like to experiment with some paints that aren't watercolors and try to break out of my rut of just drawing and/or using paint that is super easy to re-mix, layer, remove, and put away when you are done. Colored drawing implements are a bit too "safe", but I rarely have the patience to use them very realistically. Might want to work on that? I spend so long on colors, though...
I like having people to draw that aren't me. Other people are so interesting, but I'm afraid to ask to draw them for fear of making an abomination. I have so many bad self-portraits I got disgusted with in high school. I feel kind of creepy drawing my friends, but it's fun to debug the drawing process and see which lines and shadows, once tweaked, make Carolyn or Liz out of "some girl", now that I kind of decided I have their permission?
I am excited for summer to begin. New things to deal with and slightly more freedom. I will grow! In the meantime, oh, shit, programming, why, Nicole, dumb girl. Somehow I have to find a way to not feel like a retard doing this stuff so I will look forward to it again too. I really enjoyed it when I wasn't afraid of failing so hard.
