Was Today Wasted?
Oct. 25th, 2006 06:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dolphins_logNo, I can't say today was wasted, but I don't really have anything to show for it. Today was spent questing for supplies for the final exercises in Betty Edwards' book. She has added a chapter introducing color. In my other experiences with art education I've done a lot of the exercises that she is having us do. Things like the color wheel and the like. Things that I'm actually embarrassed to say I'm doing again. They seem rudimentary and childish.
But I told myself I would start from the beginning and follow through. And Betty Edwards has a way of explaining the processes, and the reasons behind them, that appeal to me. For example, I did a self portrait before, for a class at Olympic College back in 1992. Just for Jazz here it is.
As you can see I had already progressed beyond the October 9th "before" picture. This one even has Bill the Cat in a Buckaroo Banzai headband! And it's 18" x 24". Still, yesterday's self portrait is a little more in proportion, and IMO somewhat better.
I understood far more yesterday, before I started to draw, then I did back in 1992. Most of the changes are mental. I understand the frame of mind I want when I set out to draw something. Now I look forward to the shift rather then fighting to find it.
...That alone is gold, and well worth going back to the beginning. So I'm willing to build another color wheel. I'm willing to play with colored paper. It's worth it.
Today was spent looking for large sheets of colored paper, and then later, specific prismacolor pencils. I have had a box of 72 colors since the last Orycon I went to (That was with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
miko2, whaaay back when). The artist who did the Dragon Rider Graphic Novels covers did a demonstration with prismacolors. They were the media he used to draw his cover illustrations with. I was impressed enough to spend the bucks. I've only sharpened about 15 of them. Some important ones are missing. My quest took me all over Port orchard, and then finally down to Tacoma. I've had enough success where I think I'm ready to proceed.
...So, no, today was not wasted.
But I told myself I would start from the beginning and follow through. And Betty Edwards has a way of explaining the processes, and the reasons behind them, that appeal to me. For example, I did a self portrait before, for a class at Olympic College back in 1992. Just for Jazz here it is.
As you can see I had already progressed beyond the October 9th "before" picture. This one even has Bill the Cat in a Buckaroo Banzai headband! And it's 18" x 24". Still, yesterday's self portrait is a little more in proportion, and IMO somewhat better.
I understood far more yesterday, before I started to draw, then I did back in 1992. Most of the changes are mental. I understand the frame of mind I want when I set out to draw something. Now I look forward to the shift rather then fighting to find it.
...That alone is gold, and well worth going back to the beginning. So I'm willing to build another color wheel. I'm willing to play with colored paper. It's worth it.
Today was spent looking for large sheets of colored paper, and then later, specific prismacolor pencils. I have had a box of 72 colors since the last Orycon I went to (That was with
miko2, whaaay back when). The artist who did the Dragon Rider Graphic Novels covers did a demonstration with prismacolors. They were the media he used to draw his cover illustrations with. I was impressed enough to spend the bucks. I've only sharpened about 15 of them. Some important ones are missing. My quest took me all over Port orchard, and then finally down to Tacoma. I've had enough success where I think I'm ready to proceed....So, no, today was not wasted.
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Date: 2006-10-26 06:32 am (UTC)"No matter where you go...."
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