Hello, today I'm back for the Wednesday post. Today I am talking about whether I prefer to piant from life, or from a reference photograph. I think both are great in their own way. I personly I like photographs for many reasons.
One is the a picture can't move like life. It is easier to draw or paint from something if it doesn't move. So a photograph is great for me. For example if you are happy with an angle outside and then the wind blows it and you have lost your perfect angle. If you use a photograph you can take a photo of your perfect angle. Second is that you don't have to sketch all at once. You can take breaks whenever you want. This is good because some work it take hours to create. If you have lost your inspiration you could take a break and come back with a clean slate. This is great because when you come back to your art you might have new ideas or mistakes and things you missed. Third reason is troubles with shadows, wind and weather when wanting to draw straight from the environment. This is not a problem when using a photograph. Over the time the shadow moves which can be annoying when trying to make your artwork perfect. Back before cameras you had no choice but to draw it from your mind, still life or memory. I think that would suck, but they wouldn't of known any other way. I would prefer the stagger of my warm room or art studio. Thank you for reading this little rant. I will post soon explaining my way of posting for the next 2 or so weeks.
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Here are 3 book marks I have designed and what I used to make them. All my ideas are original except the quotes I found on the internet. You will need:
Method1. Cut all your book mark sheets to the right size. 2. Print and cut out the quotes for the bookmarks. 3. Now just place the book marks together. 4. Now stick down the design together. Have fun making book mark designs.
I know a lot of people including me have trouble finding inspo, so here are some ideas to find inspo. Just to say you don't have to do a drawing everyday, if you don't have inspo you can take a break. Also write down all your ideas when they come to you. So you have an area when you're stuck to go to and chose something on the list to draw. I will add a bibliography to the end of my post so you know where I found the images. Now I will go to the top 10 ways to find inspo. 1. Pintrest
2. Watch movies3. Read/look at books4. Look at past drawingsLooking at your past drawings is always a great thing to do. Especially at the end of the year to look at all the art you have done this year. You might find art you forgot to finish. Or your past work you'll give you more inspiration for better work. 5. Look on the internet6. Search up how to draw on YouTube7. Go through drawing books8. Have a look at your favourite artists drawings9. Look at things around you10. Let inspo come naturallyBibliography1st- https://www.cnbc.com/2015/05/01/13-famous-logos-that-require-a-double-take.html
2nd- http://bsnscb.com/disney-wallpapers.html 3rd- http://www.talkandroid.com/guides/best-apps/best-apps-for-reading-books/ 5th- http://www.google.com/doodles/googles-new-logo 6th- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlVpLOb_7c0 7th- https://www.pinterest.com/explore/book-drawing/ 8th- https://www.pinterest.com/HerBonedaddy/drawing-stuff/ 9th- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/earth/making-chemicals-naturally.html 10th- https://feltmagnet.com/drawing/How-to-Draw-Still-Life Hey sorry I haven't posted for a few weeks, I have been busy with school. Here is a tutorial on how to draw a strange eye artwork. This is something different from what I usually do. The inspo I found was from Pinterest and I saw a drawing of Alice in Wonderland in a keyhole. Instead I decided to take out the Alice in wonderland and add an eye looking in. 1. First draw a circle and connect a triangle to the bottom of the circle. Then add depth if you want to make it look more realistic. 2. Do a sketch of an eye (a pupil and the overall eye). As well as the bottom on an eye brow. 3. Add some shine to the eye. As well as a circle around the pupil. 4. Add fine lines for eyelashes. 5. Add bottom eyelid eyelashes and some freckles. 6. Use watercolour pencils to the artwork. Use a fine liner to go over the eyelashes. 7. Add black to the pupil and layers of light blues. 8. Add more blue colours to the eye. Also finish up the face. 9. Add brown to the keyhole and add shadow.
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