The Shading of a Girl

It's been a while since my last upload of one of my girl drawings.

Here is one after my third try on graphite shading.  Can't say if I'm pleased with it or not.  I'm sure there's always room for improvement, such as only after I sprayed it with fixative that I realized I didn't give her any ears!  I thought about adding the ears but somehow just felt that she didn't need one.  What do you think? ;)  Also it's difficult to give her a good nose job!  And if you start to pick up that I'm rather fond of "updo" hair style for my girls ... :D 

Now, let me be very honest here.  I have joined a few online girl drawing classes.  Each one of the tutors offer their own styles of girl images and different ways of drawing / painting the girls.  With these courses, my main goal is to learn the drawing and painting techniques only.  For the girl's "look", I'm trying hard to develop them from different references and work on it myself.

Here are the links to the various online classes.  Do check them out!

Link 1

Link 2

Link 3

That's all for now my dear fellow bloggers and creatives.  Have a wonderful day!

"Moon" and "Prickly"

Here are 2 of my latest girl drawings.

"Moon", Pencil Sketch

"Moon" CU, Pencil Sketch

"Prickly", Pencil Sketch

"Prickly" CU, Pencil Sketch

Hope they didn't shock you too much. :)

When I started my girl drawings about a month ago, I imagined I would have loads of fun making up clothes for them.  But as soon as my pencil move to below neck line ... well you can see what have been happening from the above drawings!

I have to admit that I was in quite a shock initially, but after the first nude girl drawing (which I didn't include in this post), the resistance was gone. I found myself enjoying drawing them quite a lot!

As much as the girls brought me joy, they also touched on the fear associates with being a creative person.

I have hesitation to post them.  I worry about how people would react to them and if the drawings would change how people think of me.  (Not that I have any status and / or reputation to maintain.) Ultimately, it is fear of rejection to my drawing (hence me), which have me holding onto the drawings for some time.

But that's exactly the point. Unless I give up my creativity, rejection and acceptance come with the territory.  

To me, creativity is about freedom, the free will to follow my intuition and instinct to create.

So there you go, the fear is gone ...

As usual, my fellow bloggers and creatives, what do you think of my girls?

More Girls ...

Aside from dealing with the nasty neck / shoulder pain, I try my best to keep up my girl drawings.

Here are two of the sketches done two weeks ago.

"Girl 3" pencil sketch

"N Girl 1" pencil sketch

Right now I'm concentrating on the front view plus getting the "look" right, if you know what I mean.

Sorry for such short post ... have to be really careful not to overload myself with computer and drawing work.  (BIG LONG SIGH)

Hope you still enjoy my drawings and do let me know what you think.

Cheers and have wonderful day.

Girls

Instead of working on The Holeys, I gave in to try out drawing girls head.

Is it because of procrastination, bored of my own ideas,  new object of interest?  Probably all of them.

I won't pretend to know what I'm doing.  In fact, here is the funny thing about my 1st girl head drawing.  The idea is to draw a female face looking directly at me.  By the time when I finished the drawing, you can see that it became a young girl looking down (at something)!  Should I laugh or cry?  ;)

"Girl 1" pencil sketch

 
For the next girl, I drew the eyes much smaller and further apart from each other to see how she would look like.  O.k. she looked quite odd but in an endearing way.  I actually quite like her.  (Gee, am I weird?)

"Girl 2" pencil sketch

There is still a long way to go before I could draw a whole girl and let alone of painting one.  Nonetheless, I believe that my drawing skill is improving with each sketch & drawing that I made.

So my dear fellow creatives and blogger, what do you think of my drawings so far?  All comment are welcomed.

Til then, stay warm (in my part of the world) or stay cool (in your parts of the world) ... 

P.S.  Apologize for the poor pix :(  No other excuses than my very poor photo skill