My Current Interest
Curse my laziness! I've hardly posted good entries to this website.
I'm currently interested in drawing. I want to draw well. I want to draw just like those good traditional and digital painters. I want to know the body--its anatomy and its proportions. I want to know colours--colour theory, bases, highlights, shades. I've been trying to draw at least one thing each day. This started during the cruise. I don't think I drew each day, but I constantly updated the small, red sketchbook.
Today, I also had a dream about being in art class with a previous classmate (one I actually found on the cruise ship). I had to finish a landscape done with acrylics. It looked bad. I was trying to come up with ideas on how to improve it, but it was futile. I was horrible with paints, so any attempt to improve the picture was futile.
FACTS (in paragraphs): I update three personal sketchbooks. Two of them were bought in Borders and the other one was given to me in art class sophomore year. The big, blue one (purchased in August 2006) is the main sketchbook. This is where I usually update simple sketches and ideas while I'm at home or in my grandparents' house. The small, red sketchbook was bought soon after school was done. I wanted to use it while I'm at school, instead of wasting individual sheets of paper. In fact, this is what I also did with my personal journals. I bought a notebook for them. The red sketchbook is also used while I'm outside of my house, being places besides school (e.g. parents' car, a trip, the mall). The Sketch: Papier à croquis sketchbook, the one I received in the Art 2D class, was formerly used for art class. It has a few stupid things in the first 30-40 pages, like figure drawings, a badly drawn skull, and a badly drawn paper bag. When I worked on my last Art 2D assignment (making a painting with acrylic paints), in which I decided to make a portrait of myself, I realised that this good sketch book should be used for portraits. It helps me practise drawing people's faces.
I also own roughly three other sketchbooks that are hardly updated. The first two were bought in the supermarket near my grandparents' house. They basically contain sketches/drawings made from 2004-2006. I personally hate them, since the paper quality is crappy. The last one is the Rembrandt sketchbook. I would rather use that paper for complete traditional drawings or for sketches possibly scanned for digital completion.
With that, I also use Photoshop Elements 4.0 and the Wacom Intuos 3 4x6 for digital sketches. I'm currently using a free trial of Corel Painter X. I hardly know Painter, so it's just used to see how it works. I seriously feel more at home with Photoshop.
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From Sunday (24 June) to Friday (29 June), I stayed at my grandparents' house. Throughout the weekdays, I was constantly drawing at least one stupid thing, like a car or an eye. Before that, I filled up seven pages before and during the cruise trip.
This is the first time I filled up roughly ten pages of a sketchbook in less than a month. It makes sense, since the cruise trip encouraged me to occasionally take the sketchbook to the restaurant and the pool/jacuzzi/basically relax area. I took it while my 15-year old cousin and her friends were in the jacuzzi. I took it when my aunt relaxed with her friends. I even took it one night, when we ate dinner.
Haha...this was when I tried to teach my ten-year old cousin how to draw eyes and lips. I drew the eye in the middle (near the middle, actually), while the rest was either her attempt to draw an eye or the criticism of the typical ten-year old's eyes/mouth/lips. My cousin mentioned how her peers are not very good at drawing those things. She used the funny demonstrations to show that. It doesn't surprise me; they're only kids. Drawing good and accurate portraits and drawings at that age is usually the result of a child prodigy or a kid taught by good teachers.
I remember when our two waiters found the two of us with my sketchbook. Both of them said I was good. I guess anyone can compliment me, not just family and friends. Now I see the scan, and I realise that my eye is not the greatest thing in the world. Well, at least it's much better than the eyes I drew months ago.
I talk about these things, and I hardly post pictures! I should post more picture on some websites. I know I'm quite lazy, but at least I have sketches.
I'm currently interested in drawing. I want to draw well. I want to draw just like those good traditional and digital painters. I want to know the body--its anatomy and its proportions. I want to know colours--colour theory, bases, highlights, shades. I've been trying to draw at least one thing each day. This started during the cruise. I don't think I drew each day, but I constantly updated the small, red sketchbook.
Today, I also had a dream about being in art class with a previous classmate (one I actually found on the cruise ship). I had to finish a landscape done with acrylics. It looked bad. I was trying to come up with ideas on how to improve it, but it was futile. I was horrible with paints, so any attempt to improve the picture was futile.
FACTS (in paragraphs): I update three personal sketchbooks. Two of them were bought in Borders and the other one was given to me in art class sophomore year. The big, blue one (purchased in August 2006) is the main sketchbook. This is where I usually update simple sketches and ideas while I'm at home or in my grandparents' house. The small, red sketchbook was bought soon after school was done. I wanted to use it while I'm at school, instead of wasting individual sheets of paper. In fact, this is what I also did with my personal journals. I bought a notebook for them. The red sketchbook is also used while I'm outside of my house, being places besides school (e.g. parents' car, a trip, the mall). The Sketch: Papier à croquis sketchbook, the one I received in the Art 2D class, was formerly used for art class. It has a few stupid things in the first 30-40 pages, like figure drawings, a badly drawn skull, and a badly drawn paper bag. When I worked on my last Art 2D assignment (making a painting with acrylic paints), in which I decided to make a portrait of myself, I realised that this good sketch book should be used for portraits. It helps me practise drawing people's faces.
I also own roughly three other sketchbooks that are hardly updated. The first two were bought in the supermarket near my grandparents' house. They basically contain sketches/drawings made from 2004-2006. I personally hate them, since the paper quality is crappy. The last one is the Rembrandt sketchbook. I would rather use that paper for complete traditional drawings or for sketches possibly scanned for digital completion.
With that, I also use Photoshop Elements 4.0 and the Wacom Intuos 3 4x6 for digital sketches. I'm currently using a free trial of Corel Painter X. I hardly know Painter, so it's just used to see how it works. I seriously feel more at home with Photoshop.
/end facts
From Sunday (24 June) to Friday (29 June), I stayed at my grandparents' house. Throughout the weekdays, I was constantly drawing at least one stupid thing, like a car or an eye. Before that, I filled up seven pages before and during the cruise trip.
This is the first time I filled up roughly ten pages of a sketchbook in less than a month. It makes sense, since the cruise trip encouraged me to occasionally take the sketchbook to the restaurant and the pool/jacuzzi/basically relax area. I took it while my 15-year old cousin and her friends were in the jacuzzi. I took it when my aunt relaxed with her friends. I even took it one night, when we ate dinner.
Haha...this was when I tried to teach my ten-year old cousin how to draw eyes and lips. I drew the eye in the middle (near the middle, actually), while the rest was either her attempt to draw an eye or the criticism of the typical ten-year old's eyes/mouth/lips. My cousin mentioned how her peers are not very good at drawing those things. She used the funny demonstrations to show that. It doesn't surprise me; they're only kids. Drawing good and accurate portraits and drawings at that age is usually the result of a child prodigy or a kid taught by good teachers.
I remember when our two waiters found the two of us with my sketchbook. Both of them said I was good. I guess anyone can compliment me, not just family and friends. Now I see the scan, and I realise that my eye is not the greatest thing in the world. Well, at least it's much better than the eyes I drew months ago.
I talk about these things, and I hardly post pictures! I should post more picture on some websites. I know I'm quite lazy, but at least I have sketches.