Pencil Portrait of Jensen
Few people around me started to learn draw. I was wondering if I can do it too. I read first few pages of book "The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" and told myself: "Try it!". Yeah, well...but first excercise called "Your Self-portrait". And that was the end of my journey. Don´t get me wrong, I like myself, but seriously? How can I
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(sorry for my english I´m not English native speaker)
You know, truth is that I was drawing when I was a child. I mean at primary school (as all children). Nothing special. I have no special art education or something. But it was usualy inanimate objects. Maybe you have truth. Maybe I just never tried to do more. I didn´t draw since my 15 (I think), but a year ago I drew Impala. It didn´t look bad and I said to myself that I want to draw portrait. I never drew any real person before. So I started with Jensen but I didn´t finish that portrait because of few reasons. I didn´t like it but what I realy liked was how I drew his eyes.
So this year I wanted to try draw and finished portrait (I found easier photo) and this picture inspired me (his look, his lips and haha no hairs) and I did it. I felt like posessed. :D
I don´t think, that I´m the right person for giving advices... but maybe you could start with small steps. Take some easy picture and draw. Don´t be sad if it will not looks great. Keep going. And help yourself with grid. I did it too. Thanks to grid I could draw eyes or lips in right distance and right size.
Look here for example:
http://www.squidoo.com/GridMethod
Shades - This part was easy part for me. I love shading, so my problems are contours. (Like I said - grid helps me). But you could start with black and white picture. It´s easier to see shades.
So like I said, this is my first portrait of person what I finished and it is also my motivation for another things. I know, that I can´t draw trees and people outside at the real time (maby one day). But right now I know, that if I want, I can draw my own pencil portraits and pictures from photos.
PS: According to the book "The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" can everybody learn to draw.
Look:
http://www.happiness-project.com/happiness_project/2007/04/what_i_learned_.html
Good luck :)
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I had art in school until I was 17 or 18 and I really didn't like it. One of my biggest problems were actually the shades. I remember we had to draw a statue of a famous person once (I chose Bono from U2, because he wears sunglasses^^) and my friend practically sat beside me when I tried to draw shades which look realistic.
Thank you again. I'll definitely take a closer look at the links.
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If you want that book "The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" you can download it from here (also workbook). Good luck ;)
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