i can't draw ~

[lookingland]

yeah, so i can't draw (but we already knew that) ~ i doodled and doodled last night and came up with nothing earth-shattering. if anything, i'm out of practice and even had trouble with the faces!

ah well. the best i could come up with was the picture below (which i drew the full-length of, but am only posting the upper-half so as not to make it too big or lose all the detail. i hashingly colored it digitally in painter, just to get a feel for what it would look like.

i keep thinking i really need a "how to draw" book or something, but the truth is, my art, like my writing, is okay as it is, just not what i actually want. it's a style thing (again) ~ and how do you reconcile something when you don't like your own natural style?



mr. morsey, some time between
Slaughter's Mountain and Beatus
(judging by the bushwhacker locks)

i don't hate this, really. and i don't think it's "awful", but it isn't really what i'm trying to do (and trying to articulate the vision in my head is near-impossible, i guess). i could improve at least my basic drafting skills with more practice, but i really need to find some models to copy.

i really like Heuet (p.s. i love Lambiek.net), but his style is too loose for me to imitate. some of his pictures are just blobby suggestions that somehow work. i dunna think i could do that. i love love love his backgrounds and architecture though: full of fine detail ~ he has that sensibility of opposite contrast: the people are broad-brushed and the objects are more meticulous. it's very interesting.

back to the literal drawing board, i guess.

happy sattidy everyone ~

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Comments

[sparowe]

You can't draw?! Hardly! I can't draw a straight line, nor yet a circle. When I see something in my mind, or want something for one of my stories, I have to have it commissioned. Your work is a source of pleasure to me, my dear.. I can understand frustration, but don't devalue what you can do. *hugs*

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

aww, thanks ~ ! i dun't mean i hate what i do or think it sux. it's just not what i want ~ either way, you're right: i should quit my kvetching and remember that being able to draw at all is a gift all its own.

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