{"id":2618,"date":"2020-08-08T08:12:53","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T02:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/?p=2618"},"modified":"2020-08-08T08:12:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T02:42:57","slug":"drawings-for-7-august-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/2020\/08\/08\/drawings-for-7-august-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Drawings for 7 August, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The first drawing is one that I’d started outlining on the previous day; and then left to finish the next day because I had to leave early for work. It was based on this reference photo:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"home\"<\/a>\n<\/div>
home, by Gerben of the lake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This is what I made:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I think I’m so spooked with drawing either human faces or anything where perspective is needed, that I use lighter, less confident pencil strokes. It’s not just scanner settings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here, too, the proportions \/ perspective are off from the photo. But I think I was more<\/em> confident drawing the Buddha statue than the background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve now realised that when it comes to drawing faces, drawing the Buddha again and again is probably a great way to learn and get better. The Buddha’s face is serene, unlined, and symmetrical – and it’s a great way to build up to drawing more complicated, wrinkly, tilted faces. I think I’ll be drawing one Buddha face a week for the near future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also did another drawing completely from scratch, based on this photo:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Leopard\"<\/a>\n<\/div>
Leopard, by Geert<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This is what I did:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The depth I tried to show in the ears hasn’t really come through in the scan, but it could have been a little better even in the drawing. Overall, I’m really happy with what I’ve done here. There is room for improvement, but those feel like minor faults and not insurmountable ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just like with the cat drawing from earlier in the week, I can’t quite<\/em> get the whiskers right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I think that this shows that I’m best, and most confident, at drawing felines, regardless of species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first drawing is one that I’d started outlining on the previous day; and then left to finish the next day because I had to leave early for work. It was based on this reference photo: This is what I made: I think I’m so spooked with drawing either human faces or anything where perspective […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2654],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2618","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-Ge","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618","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=2618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2621,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618\/revisions\/2621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}