And lo on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:20:26 -0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> did  
spake, saying:

>>> Eventually the course came to a close. (Shortly before Christmas  
>>> actually.)
>>  I did wonder, but it seemed you'd only attended about two classes.
>
> Actually 11 classes. Most of which just involved sitting around drawing  
> stuff. [Which I could have done myself.] And being told about all the  
> stuff I did wrong. [Which is also pretty self-evident.]

Time well spent then :-)

>>> Did I learn *anything* useful? Yes, probably.
>>  Probably?
>
> I learned the following facts:
>
> - Drawing is FREAKING HARD! I had assumed that there's a special  
> technique to it. But no, there isn't. I had assumed that drawing only  
> *seems* hard because I'm doing it the wrong way. But no, actually it  
> *really is* hard. And that's all there is to it.

To be precise you find drawing hard, my cousin finds drawing easy.

> - Getting the proportions of shapes and the angles of lines exactly  
> correct is insanely important. (I was really shocked when the teacher  
> got out a ruler and started *measuring* my hand-drawn image. But sure,  
> the line is definitely 8 mm longer than it should be. Jesus, I need to  
> be THAT ACCURATE???)

Art teacher meet Picasso, Picasso this is art teacher. So long as you can  
tell what it is who cares?

> - I tend to obsess about drawing tiny details rather than looking at the  
> whole image to check whether it's actually in proportion.

But that's fine if you're trying to duplicate exactly what you see for  
architectural purposes, but it ain't art.

> - You can check proportions by lining various image elements up against  
> each other. (E.g., a person's nose is supposed to line up with their  
> ears. If it doesn't... they look pretty retarded.)

Okay now you're dealing with faces and yep that's hard because of how our  
brains work

> - Empty space is really important.

Meh.

> That more or less summarises what I learned. I still can't draw very  
> well - but I've got a little better at copying drawings...

Okay once again here's a quickie essentially what lies between my keyboard  
and monitor base, HB pencil, eraser, no ruler and a index finger to smudge  
stuff. It's not in proportion, but if I'd use it as a base drawing.

-- 
Phil Cook

--
I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
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