Monday, January 7, 2013

That's so square, man

Lesson 4 of 30: The Cube

Today I moved past balls and started to draw boxes. Woohoo!







Two whole pages of dandy cubes.

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Sunday, January 6, 2013

I will call him Blinky

Drawing lesson 3 of 30: Advanced Spheres

Today's lesson was more involved than previous ones. Still, just drawing spheres.


The bottom drawing is just a pile of balls, but it inadvertently ended up looking like some sad creature with one eye popping out.

Cast shadows continue to be a source of concern, anxiety, and dissatisfaction.

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Saturday, January 5, 2013

I drew me some balls

Lesson 2 of 30: Overlapping Spheres.

Bask in the glory:




I'm not a fan of these cast-shadow things.

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Friday, January 4, 2013

Draw One

Lesson 1 of 30. Off to a mediocre start.




Gotta start somewhere.

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Thursday, January 3, 2013

A house, an airplane, and a bagel

I'm starting a 30-day drawing program from yet another library book. The first task was to do a sort of pretest. Here it is:




Stunning, no?

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Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Flashback to my kindergarten art

Here's my beautiful drawing for today:


This drawing is the result of the first "pre-drawing" exercise in a drawing book I have from the library. The task was to draw a scene including a house, a person, a tree, some bushes and flowers, and at least five other things of my choice.

I'm sure looking forward to improving.

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Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Faces by me; bodies by Keagin

My new 365 project for 2013 is to draw something every day. I've always wanted to learn how to draw, so that's my goal for this year.

Today I was inspired to start my long artistic journey while at lunch after doing the 5K Resolution Run and Polar Bear Plunge.

I drew crappy little pictures of my fellow ice-run buddies. I drew just the faces, and then Keagin pitched in to add the bodies, which I think are pretty sweet.




One thing I learned from my first drawing attempt this year is that I'm really bad at drawing chins. If only faces could just be floating in air under a pile of hair.

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