My drawing journal...

**wildthing** · January 7th, 2006, 09:55 PM

Hi, this is the first time that I post something so I hope it will work.....I have enjoyed to draw for several years now, but I always was involved in so many activities. Now I finally decided that I want to improve my drawing.....It would be great if you could give me some tips.....
I took projective geometry classes for two years, and want now concentrate on free hand drawings. Here are some of my works.....

Here are my first trys with a nude model....

I really have problems with proportion...can sombody suggest a book I could use to learn about anatomy drawing....

**wildthing** · January 7th, 2006, 10:10 PM

I really like pensil and charcoal.....yesterday I thought I should try some other utensils....
Here are some pics I did in my room.....

**wildthing** · January 7th, 2006, 10:20 PM

Today I'm back to pencil again....the pencil lines look a little bit week...they are better on the original...I don't have a scanner and the digi cam isn't really working as I would like it to work.....

I totally forgot how much I enjoy drawing...now I would like to spend every minute surrounded by pencils, charcoal and paper.....

**dfacto** · January 7th, 2006, 10:57 PM

I really have problems with proportion...can sombody suggest a book I could use to learn about anatomy drawing....

You can get the Loomis books for free.

http://24.231.242.35:8882/AnonymousF...oomis%20Books/

They're free, awesome, extrememly helpful both for learning and reference, and did I mention that they're all free?

Also, instead of giving generalized crits, I'll just point out the most important error I saw.

You drew the couch, but the perspective is very confusing. Since the sides of a couch are parrallel, they should all go towards one vanishing point. This is not the case in your picture though, and it messes it up. Perspective is very very important in pretty much any picture you will ever draw, so make sure you pay attention tovanishing points at least. No need to grab a ruler and double check, but make sure you are keeping an eye out while drawing.

**wildthing** · January 8th, 2006, 05:26 PM

Thanks for taking the time to point out my errors....I am already working on it....looks so much better when I pay attention to the perspective. I totally forgot about concentrating on the vanishing points because I just tryed to concentrade on the picture....I'll do some more tonight.....
In the morning I was working a little bit with charcoal....I tried to concentrate on light and volume.....

Now I'll go back to work...

**armando** · January 8th, 2006, 09:07 PM

Anatomy book I'll recommend is Richard Hatton's "Figure Drawing".

**wildthing** · January 11th, 2006, 02:20 PM

I was doing some faces yesterday...didn't have too much time cause I was working all day....the Loomis book is a nice way to learn about the proportions....here are some of my first trys...

and here I tryed to use what I learned by drawing a picture of my kid....

even looks like him!
I'm working on some more faces but the proportion is kind of the easiest part...I have such a hard time with shading or doing the eyes so they look like people and not like mosters.....

**wildthing** · January 11th, 2006, 06:00 PM

Here is another face I did today. At the moment I just draw from pictures because I can't ind anybody who is willing to sit still for a while.....

I did this one earlier today....I wanted to catch the tension of the body....the hands turned out very small....

I hope I can get the Figure Drawing book soon...

It would be great if you could leave me some critique...
thx

**wildthing** · March 21st, 2006, 04:50 PM

Hi,
when I was preparing my portfolios for applying to Colleges for the architecture program I kind of got stuck on drawing portraits...While I was on Maui I finally got away from the portraits and ryed some landscape....here is the view of my backyard...

During the last months i was really busy, but I hope I can finish some more drawings pretty soon...