I Work In Pixels

So, the next exercise in Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is to set up a chair and draw the chair by drawing the negative space around it. Not having an extra chair, I set up our vacuum-cleaner and drew it. Result? The thing that I drew looks cool, and it even looks plausibly like our vacuum, but for proportions I get an Epic FAIL! I started by using my viewfinder to mark the approximate positions of the top of the handle, and where it crossed the border on the left and right at the bottom, and then I moved on to drawing the hose, but the problem was that there wasn’t enough room for the hose anymore. So somewhere I screwed up and made something of a different scale than something else, and the result is a vacuum with a short hose. Since the point of the drawing was to get the proportions right by doing negative space, I’ll probably end up doing another one. For now, here it is, in all of its glory!
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Here’s the next exercise in the book: drawing your hand first on a plastic sheet by looking through it, and then using that as a guide to draw on the paper. I love how this one came out, although I will admit that the shape of all the fingers is still a bit cartoony. Oh, and my pinky looks broken because I accidentally shifted it during drawing. But other than that, it rocks… Read the rest of this entry »

Ok, so it’s time for the second update of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain drawings. The next two assignments were “Complete the Vase/Face Illusion” and “Copy Picasso’s drawing of Igor Stravinsky upside down.”
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Hey, I have recently dug up my portfolio (it was hiding in our office) and decided to post a few pieces for you from high school and college.
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So, it’s been a while with no content, and there’s not really much to take pictures of these days in Springfield… it’s all rainy all the time and I don’t get a chance to get out much. So I thought I’d take up something I haven’t done much of in the past 4 years: drawing. Back in the day I purchased an excellent book by Betty Edwards called Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. I went through some of the exercises, but got busy with school and promptly forgot about working from the book.
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