THE GOAL HERE

There are many people who love drawing but for some reason can’t draw well. Some of them gave up because they feel it’s too late for them to start to draw. People around them may constantly try to tell them that drawing is too late for them to learn in their age, make them think that drawing can only be trained in teen age or even before that.

Others might think drawing is highly relied on talents, and they just don’t have these talents.

Despite what ever reason people have which stopped them from drawing while they still in love for it, the goals of my project is to encourage people like them to restart drawing again, and practice it regularly. Most importantly, helps them to build up confident for drawing and believe the goal they wish to archive for drawing. This project is also to be associated with the Drawing Day – an online art support community made” to create enough drawings to make some noise worldwide for the sake of art.”, and the final product is to be a supportive friend website to Drawing Day. The objective is to achieve these goals in multimedia by using internet, digital recording and photographs…

The main audiences are people who will join my project as the supporters and other users on the internet who might be interested in the project.

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Digital drawing for recording

There is another discovery I found during my last drawing, so I need to write it down now. I found myself constantly want to hit undo button (or choose history form the history panel in PS) whenever I made a mistake… This may sound ridiculous, but it also reminds me that it may be a good idea to practice my drawing in Photoshop by using the tablet. I’m not saying using the tablet for my entire training, I’m saying particulars practice such as the negatives space drawing or any proportion focused practice. Because such training doesn’t really require the effects from the real drawing tools, and what really important is just the accuracy of the outline. Therefore the tablet and computer can also achieve such goals, or even better, because the history function in the PS. By using this function I can constantly switch back to the wrong movements and replace them with the correct one. I can also snapshoot the mistakes and compare to the right ones to see what I did wrong. I think this would work and I’m planning to do it in the next practice.

negative space drawing

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Today’s practice is negative space drawing. Before I started this drawing I didn’t expect it could be hard, because it doesn’t require me to draw the real object but the shape of the outline I see from the object. But I was wrong about it. I took a small side table as my drawing object because I thought the shape would be more challenging, and challenging it was. It took me a while to decide which part to be drawn first. I started from the left top corner, and then drew to the right top corner. What happened next is still my usual problem: The proportion went wrong. It seems that I always ignore the relationship between each part of the object. For example: I would draw the top and left part right, but found one of the leg is longer compared to the others. But if I change the length of the leg, it wouldn’t march the position of some other part of the drawing. All these problems are telling me that I couldn’t see the drawing as a whole.

The same things happen to the drawing of my office chair. I’m not repeating the same problems, but I did found out something interesting: I could draw better if I draw the chair along with all its details rather than just the negative space. So I started to think why would this happen? Why would the seeming easier task of the negative space drawing is harder than the real object? My answer is that when I draw the whole chair, I picture it as a 3d object in my mind, and I could also use the details of the chair to correct the proportion of the related parts. So there is my question, the book is say that I should draw what I see, not to symbolize it, not to picture the unseen part but just draw what is in front my eye. I confused, it is a good point, but I do find myself draws better if I know the structure of the object and can picture it in my mind (like a wire frame ) to see the unseen part and draw out a better proportion. I don’t know if my idea is wrong for the drawing, but I don’t think what the book is telling conflicts my drawing habit, maybe I just need to adjust them into my own way(if only I can ask the author in person, it will be much more easier).

Using the viewfinder to draw my hand

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I read the instruction of the book, and I decided not to entirely follow its method. Because the method she is trying to introduce at this step seems designed particularly just for students who can’t draw at all. In this case, I don’t think I need to be 100% following this step. Instead, I skipped the paper toning step and directly jumped to the step of drawing the format and the crosshair on the paper. After that, I posed my left hand under the viewfinder’s plastic plane and start to draw this pose inside the format on the paper. As the book suggested, it really made my drawing seems simpler because by using the crosshair on the plastic plane, I can navigate the right shape of drawing on my paper. Once I finished the basic shape and the made sure of the right proportion, I discarded the view finder and drew the details without it. I should say that the view finder really helped me for dealing with the proportion problem. If I did draw the hand without it, I probably will be struggling with the proportion problem again. The real problem which really annoyed me in this drawing probably is the keeping of the pose. It was really hard to keep this position while the view finder was on my sleeve and my right hand was drawing, not to mention that every time I had to look at the hand in the same perspective. Those problems gave me a hard time, but they are merely the side effects of this practice.

I did another drawing for the hand posing practice. This time I followed all the instruction from the book. The drawing did turn out to be more easily accomplished. It is obvious the plastic on the view finder did a good job for me to ensure the right proportion. I’ll try to use this technique to practice more, but I did find that closing one eye is a bit awkward for me during the drawing, it doesn’t feel good.

The vase & upside down drawing.

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Pre-instruction drawing 3: My Hand

The drawing of my hand didn't go easy. It took me a while to determine the relationships between each finger. Then I started to draw the outlines, the outlines wasn’t too hard.

The difficult part is the details of the hand: the structure of the fingers and paw. These parts are very challenging for me because the structure is quite complex, therefore I couldn’t quite determine what the exact shape of some unobvious parts. This problem also caused me hesitated on the drawing of shadows. Because there’s too much confusion on the details of hand, the drawing process didn’t go smoothly and the finished work is very blur and grey. The drawing took me about 50 minutes to complete.