After doing some life drawings tonight by copying pictures from a life drawing book, I finally understand the basics to making good life drawings (this does not mean that I can). It's all about seeing the actual form, seeing how the light actually is, deciding that light isn't good enough, making up your own light that follows the real rules dictated by the real life observation, draw what you made up. Also, it means seeing tiny subtle variations in the forms, and exaggerating them
I learned all this by looking at actually photographs in the book, trying to draw them, then looking at what the expert did to draw the same figure. They were completely making up all the lighting, it was literally coming from a different side.
I heard from somebody that it takes something like 1000 life drawings to be good at it. I think I might have hit something like 500 recently.
Kyler
New Photo Feature
On the right hand side of the page is a link to my photo gallery. Thankfully Google started automatically creating this gallery from the pictures I uploaded since December.
It is most useful for looking at my pictures in pristine quality. I would suggest using the slide show feature, pressing F11 for full screen to look at my pictures in all of their high resolution glory, centered, against a nice black background.
For real full screen, you need to download the extension Full Fullscreen for firefox from
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1568/
this will make all the tool bars disappear.
My only gripe is that the slide show controls don't fade out when you let it run.(Edit: nevermind, they do fade out if you leave the mouse completely still for a few moments, this is absolutely perfect, no gripes at all.)
I will continue to post all my pictures in the same format, but now we have more options to see them which is alway nice.
Kyler
It is most useful for looking at my pictures in pristine quality. I would suggest using the slide show feature, pressing F11 for full screen to look at my pictures in all of their high resolution glory, centered, against a nice black background.
For real full screen, you need to download the extension Full Fullscreen for firefox from
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1568/
this will make all the tool bars disappear.
My only gripe is that the slide show controls don't fade out when you let it run.(Edit: nevermind, they do fade out if you leave the mouse completely still for a few moments, this is absolutely perfect, no gripes at all.)
I will continue to post all my pictures in the same format, but now we have more options to see them which is alway nice.
Kyler
Portrait continued...
I recgonize the fact that Tiff thinks this has horrible colours in it. Yet still, I think it looks really good. How very odd.
Kyler
Hopefully I won't have to change anything more on this painting.
The One ring to rule them All
Finished making my first ring in jewellery, I will see if anybody can figure out what all the numbers on it mean.
The numbers are =18=5+7+3+3=216/12=2006-1988=
Kyler
Design Drawings
Here are some design drawings that I did recently. The botanical one was done at the Devonian gardens and I believe is one of the most time consuming projects in the class. I was very happy with the fact that it was one of the better designed ones, even though my detail might not have been as great.
Kyler
Another self portrait
After having done 2 other self portraits, I wanted to do something a little different in painting tomorrow. Here is the reference that I will be using in painting tomorrow. Hopefully an actually painting will be posted shortly.
Also
After humanities today, I think I convinced myself how pratical and possible it could be, to be both an atheist, yet also believe in god. (belief defined very vaguely as being something that you should at least imagine existing once and a while)
Hopefully no one is offended by my vagueness.
Kyler
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