woman-artist, be a shock worker of the revolution!
Yesterday I hung out all day in the chilly marble halls of the library, and took about 300 reference photos from books on Tibetan painting and Soviet propaganda. Camera shots are like photocopies, see, except they don't destroy the spines, plus they're free. Just sorted all of them.
The art and architecture room at the library included a bonus Crotchety Old Dude, whom I believe was wearing a string tie, and was definitely wearing a tailcoat and frizzy white muttonchops. arjache would've loved him, except that his way of getting anyone's attention was to rap twice sharply on a nearby surface with whatever book he had in hand. Well, maybe it was endearing. A bit. In a quiet room, though...
Now, drawing from photos is hard. Converting them from an unfamiliar graphic style to one's own (ha, I don't really have a graphic style, not yet), harder still. Applying a third historic style for maximum comedic (dogmatic!) effect, GRARH.
In conclusion, hard graphic work is hard. I have this project in mind, unfortunately for me. I hope I will finish at least one of a planned 15-20 instances of it.
I may need cookies. Thought I'd give myself a nice breakfast out, but the local coffeeshop does a very poor facsimile of waffles.
The art and architecture room at the library included a bonus Crotchety Old Dude, whom I believe was wearing a string tie, and was definitely wearing a tailcoat and frizzy white muttonchops. arjache would've loved him, except that his way of getting anyone's attention was to rap twice sharply on a nearby surface with whatever book he had in hand. Well, maybe it was endearing. A bit. In a quiet room, though...
Now, drawing from photos is hard. Converting them from an unfamiliar graphic style to one's own (ha, I don't really have a graphic style, not yet), harder still. Applying a third historic style for maximum comedic (dogmatic!) effect, GRARH.
In conclusion, hard graphic work is hard. I have this project in mind, unfortunately for me. I hope I will finish at least one of a planned 15-20 instances of it.
I may need cookies. Thought I'd give myself a nice breakfast out, but the local coffeeshop does a very poor facsimile of waffles.