Showing posts with label Perspective Drawing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Perspective Drawing. Show all posts

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Perspective Drawing and Creature

Still on the mend ... but managed to start drawing (or more like picking up some desperately needed drawing lessons and exercises from a work book).

Here are 2 of them. It is a combination of observational drawing and imaginative drawing.
(NOTE: They are more like practice drawing than proper drawing.)



When I first read about perspective drawing lesson, all the "sighting" and "measuring proportion" seems very complicated and hard to understand. But after a few hours of drawing a simplified version of a small corner of my kitchen, I was amazed of how real (perspective wise) it looked on paper.

Perspective drawing is still a newly acquired skill which I need tonnes of practices. But I found the process of using lines to create 3D objects / landscape on paper immensely interesting. It is almost "magical"!


You might also notice from my 2 drawings that my inclination to all things weird & strange keep cropping up everywhere. When I finished the little box drawing and the office corner drawing, I had this dialogue in my head.


Me: O.K. that's good! You did well in your practice, but ... something's missing?


me: What's missing?


Me: "Stuff" ... "Your Stuff" ...


me: What do you mean by "My Stuff"?


Me: I mean ... yes, this is your drawing but it is NOT your drawing!


I looked at the drawings again and the little spotted creature started to take form and crept into frame.


Me: Ah, there you go, you dumbo! Now that's more like it!


I think I was so caught up in learning the drawing skills (based on observation, hence realistic drawing) that I actually took the term "observation" to the letter. I drew what I saw and forgot to continue to let my imagination fuel my creativity.


Through the little spotted creature, I reclaimed MY drawings!

(BTW, I'm still wondering what kind of creature it is ... any idea?)