{"id":2525,"date":"2020-07-14T18:58:45","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T13:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/?p=2525"},"modified":"2020-07-14T18:58:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T13:28:45","slug":"drawings-for-14-july-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/14\/drawings-for-14-july-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Drawings for 14 July, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

I missed drawing on Monday as well, though that was less about laziness and more about a really weird schedule.<\/p>\n

But I already knew what I wanted to draw on Monday, so I did two drawings today: what I’d planned for Monday, and what I found today.<\/p>\n

Monday’s drawing was a face, because I was feeling up for a challenge. There was this amazing monochrome portrait on the Flickr explore page:<\/p>\n

\"Darwin,<\/a><\/p>\n

And this is how I copied it:<\/p>\n

\"20200714a\"<\/p>\n

The proportions are a little off – and I’m especially exasperated about the lips, though I think that is a problem of shading more than proportion. But as usual, I seem to do worse with the area between the nose and mouth, and better with the eyes. I think these are my best eyes since I started.<\/p>\n

I think this leaves the subject looking much younger than in the photo – I tried to get the crows-feet around the eyes, but I think there’s an impact of the white hair in the photo that I can’t duplicate at my current level of skill.<\/p>\n

I’ve now been trying a 2B pencil to do areas which are completely shadowed, and I’m not sure it’s working that well. But I don’t even know if the solution is to go back to HB or to pick an even blacker pencil.<\/p>\n

Next up, a quick sketch for Tuesday. I tried to draw a photo of a castle through an arched gate, but got it badly wrong right at the beginning. And I was in a rush to shower and start the day, so rather than spend an unpredictable amount of time getting it right, I decided to do an easier photo, and found this:<\/p>\n

\"Utrecht<\/a><\/p>\n

Ooh, this had to be simple, right? Just draw a curve and then draw parallel lines? Well… see for yourself:<\/p>\n

\"20200714b\"<\/p>\n

I did the curve, I did the parallel lines (with a ruler, at that), but I didn’t get the parallel shadows on the blinds exactly right. I winged it on the shadow the window frames\/ structures were casting, though, and I’m pretty happy with that.<\/p>\n

I left the man in as simple straight lines as possible instead of trying to get into the details of the face. I feel it’s better this way.<\/p>\n

But it’s fascinating to practice these sorts of regular and repeating things; and see and draw for myself how things get stretched out or twisted closer and further away from the camera.<\/p>\n

(Ignore the 12\/7 in the corner, I wrote the date wrong for some reason.)<\/p>\n

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I missed drawing on Monday as well, though that was less about laziness and more about a really weird schedule. But I already knew what I wanted to draw on Monday, so I did two drawings today: what I’d planned for Monday, and what I found today. Monday’s drawing was a face, because I was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2654],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drawings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7AOU2-EJ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2526,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525\/revisions\/2526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}