Do you think I'm wondrous and amazing? Do you envy me completely? Have you ever wished there was something I COULDN'T do, so that you could laugh at my sad attempts
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And for what it's worth, PEOPLE are probably the single most difficult thing in the whole world to draw. Ever. No wonder you're going crazy, staring at the page and erasing every line. Try drawing something simpler first.
You know...you'd THINK this would be BLINDINGLY obvious, but it's clearly not. 'Cuz what does every kid try to draw first? I'm pretty sure it's people. Other people I've seen struggle to draw? Totally people.
I always thought it was more of a hand/eye coordination thing, but then, I don't know anything about drawing.
There's a series of psychological tests, btw, that you're probably well aware of, called the DAP. (draw a person, draw a house, draw a tree.) They're supposed to say something about something, but really, I've forgotten the significance of all that so I can't really analyze anything here.
Maybe you could look it up if you're bored, but then, it's kind of counterproductive insofar as creativity is concerned, because then you end up drawing more to create a pleasing psychological profile than a pleasing image.
Actually, maybe that's why I've forgotten all about it. I found it disturbing in a way, and kind of not useful.
Nice picture, though. Better than mine. I tend to draw majorly cartoony because anything else ends up looking undead.
Thank you, but I have a feeling you're fudging some. LOL. It's childish. I know that, it's okay. (And by the way, I've always been impressed by, and envious of, your little cartoons. Even if you can't draw anything else, you can still get the basic form of a cat or a pig down! The first card I got from you, I thought, "Oh great, and he draws, too.")
Elicia up there is about the nicest girl in the world, so she went really easy on me (seriously, if your computer will load it, go visit her journal and see her stuff!), but this drawing is only a "success" if the "room" in which I give myself to succeed is very small. :P
I always thought it was more of a hand/eye coordination thing, but then, I don't know anything about drawing.
I think it's both...? Like, your hands need to know what to do. BUT it's also about seeing what's actually there. Non-artists don't tend to actually draw what's in front of them (IME), they draw symbols to represent what's there. Like, instead of actually drawing a table the way it looks...people
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I think you're absolutely right about the spacial sort of 'vision' that many artists have. I know that when haleth draws something, it really takes me a long time to figure out what the heck is going on at first, but when it's finished, it is amazingly accurate. It's almost as if she starts out in space, drawing a shade here, a line there, and they seem not connected in any way whatsoever to each other or to the thing she is drawing, but when the thing is done, they're all still there and they all are perfectly in their place.
I tend to start with the most obvious features, like I always do the big round horse face first, then add two points on top for the ears. It's really kind of comical when I watch myself draw.
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You know...you'd THINK this would be BLINDINGLY obvious, but it's clearly not. 'Cuz what does every kid try to draw first? I'm pretty sure it's people. Other people I've seen struggle to draw? Totally people.
Thanks, I'll keep it in mind.
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There's a series of psychological tests, btw, that you're probably well aware of, called the DAP. (draw a person, draw a house, draw a tree.) They're supposed to say something about something, but really, I've forgotten the significance of all that so I can't really analyze anything here.
Maybe you could look it up if you're bored, but then, it's kind of counterproductive insofar as creativity is concerned, because then you end up drawing more to create a pleasing psychological profile than a pleasing image.
Actually, maybe that's why I've forgotten all about it. I found it disturbing in a way, and kind of not useful.
Nice picture, though. Better than mine. I tend to draw majorly cartoony because anything else ends up looking undead.
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Thank you, but I have a feeling you're fudging some. LOL. It's childish. I know that, it's okay. (And by the way, I've always been impressed by, and envious of, your little cartoons. Even if you can't draw anything else, you can still get the basic form of a cat or a pig down! The first card I got from you, I thought, "Oh great, and he draws, too.")
Elicia up there is about the nicest girl in the world, so she went really easy on me (seriously, if your computer will load it, go visit her journal and see her stuff!), but this drawing is only a "success" if the "room" in which I give myself to succeed is very small. :P
I always thought it was more of a hand/eye coordination thing, but then, I don't know anything about drawing.
I think it's both...? Like, your hands need to know what to do. BUT it's also about seeing what's actually there. Non-artists don't tend to actually draw what's in front of them (IME), they draw symbols to represent what's there. Like, instead of actually drawing a table the way it looks...people ( ... )
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I tend to start with the most obvious features, like I always do the big round horse face first, then add two points on top for the ears. It's really kind of comical when I watch myself draw.
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your assessment of my 'drawing' turned me into a small puddle.
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