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It's funny. People keep saying about art that anyone can do it, that if you keep practicing, you can improve radically. And there are books like Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain that promise to get you to be able to draw what you see with much improvement.
I've never actually believed it.
I do draw better than I did 20 years ago, but I don't consider it a radical improvement. I think there are clear boundaries that I work within, and I don't see myself getting out of those.
I'm crap with colour. Always have been. I don't see what other people see, the colours within colours. It's very rare I can put them down on paper or digitally. I don't know what to do about that.
I do think that getting the hang of new media is something you can do with practice. There are disciplines and muscle things to learn each time. Of course, unless you're really annoying, you need to learn that. It isn't however, something I do much of these days. But that's distinctly my personal limitation of the brain.
However, I have learnt, and recently. I can't say I'm happy about the level of reproducing likenesses I've been able to achieve recently, but you know what? I can draw men without a model now.
The vast extent of my drawing has been female. They were what was around, they were what I was, plus I had a long and intense interest in fashion. On the few times I chose to drew men, they came out confusingly androgynously. Let's say, for 30-odd years of chicken scratchings.
But somehow recently, I've realised that I can now draw men's faces (I was always decent with bodies) that look masculine. I can even draw men's faces with big eyes or pouty lips that still look male. Huh. I guess I'm not that old a dog after all.
Thank you, Supernatural.
I've never actually believed it.
I do draw better than I did 20 years ago, but I don't consider it a radical improvement. I think there are clear boundaries that I work within, and I don't see myself getting out of those.
I'm crap with colour. Always have been. I don't see what other people see, the colours within colours. It's very rare I can put them down on paper or digitally. I don't know what to do about that.
I do think that getting the hang of new media is something you can do with practice. There are disciplines and muscle things to learn each time. Of course, unless you're really annoying, you need to learn that. It isn't however, something I do much of these days. But that's distinctly my personal limitation of the brain.
However, I have learnt, and recently. I can't say I'm happy about the level of reproducing likenesses I've been able to achieve recently, but you know what? I can draw men without a model now.
The vast extent of my drawing has been female. They were what was around, they were what I was, plus I had a long and intense interest in fashion. On the few times I chose to drew men, they came out confusingly androgynously. Let's say, for 30-odd years of chicken scratchings.
But somehow recently, I've realised that I can now draw men's faces (I was always decent with bodies) that look masculine. I can even draw men's faces with big eyes or pouty lips that still look male. Huh. I guess I'm not that old a dog after all.
Thank you, Supernatural.