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Hello there. Sorry for the lack of updates; I lost my Flickr password and was too lazy to get a new one sorted until now. Here is a painting that I did for our recent observational drawing project:
The idea was that we were supposed to go out in public and draw people socialising, but the idea of drawing random pedestrians and partygoers makes my skin crawl. I can't comfortably draw people unless I've got their permission, and I don't like drawing in public, either. I feel like people will assume I'm looking for attention, which couldn't be further from the case. I generally don't like it when people watch me draw, for fear that they'll see my every little mistake, assume I can't draw, and therefor logically conclude that I am a bad person.
Anyway, for all of the above reasons I cheated and just drew people from photographs I found on the internet when I searched for "party" or "crowd". I don't think it really matters, as the versions of the characters that ended up in the finished piece are so abstracted from the originals that you can't tell. If you're curious, here's the original photo of the guy at the top:
I can't find the photo of the other guy, but he didn't look anything like the guy I painted. I seem to have combined Larry David and Dr. Venture, for some reason.
And there you go. I might have some more updates later this week, or I might not. The tension is palpable.
The idea was that we were supposed to go out in public and draw people socialising, but the idea of drawing random pedestrians and partygoers makes my skin crawl. I can't comfortably draw people unless I've got their permission, and I don't like drawing in public, either. I feel like people will assume I'm looking for attention, which couldn't be further from the case. I generally don't like it when people watch me draw, for fear that they'll see my every little mistake, assume I can't draw, and therefor logically conclude that I am a bad person.
Anyway, for all of the above reasons I cheated and just drew people from photographs I found on the internet when I searched for "party" or "crowd". I don't think it really matters, as the versions of the characters that ended up in the finished piece are so abstracted from the originals that you can't tell. If you're curious, here's the original photo of the guy at the top:
I can't find the photo of the other guy, but he didn't look anything like the guy I painted. I seem to have combined Larry David and Dr. Venture, for some reason.
And there you go. I might have some more updates later this week, or I might not. The tension is palpable.