Still life infodump

Ok, I decided to keep updates on Saturdays only because of school work.  The updates might become irregular over time as my studying and drawing for my class become more intense.

Also, I was unable to take pictures of the drawing exercises due to technical difficulties (camera won't work) but I do have thumbnails and notes as an example of what we do in Drawing 100:

Thumbnails are a helpful drawing tool used to analyze the composition.  Here I draw the still life in a few thumbnails.  The thumbnails are created by using the viewfinder, which is another drawing tool used to analyze the composition and is a smaller version of the 18x24 paper I used for the artworks.  What I look for in the thumbnails are a variety of lines (horizontal, vertical, diagonal, and curvilinear),  size of the objects, and changes in rhythm and flow in the composition.   When I'm satisfied with the thumbnail, I bisect it, draw boxes around the subjects in the drawing, and do the same to the large 18x24 paper for my final artwork.  After bisecting the large paper, I draw boxes, which can be any size according to the thumbnail, on it and begin to use sight and measuring tools to scale and draw the subject as accurately as I can.  This, the sighting and measuring process in creating the drawing, and drawing in the details takes about 10-15 hours to finish the artwork.

Here's some information on using sighting and measuring techniques on drawing still lifes.

INFODUMPMADNESS And now for something different:

Meet Briell Fetcher (name is spelled wrong in the picture).  Briell and Vistalgia and best friends for LIFE considering that Vistalgia is a deceased dragon spirit living within Briell.  Yup, this is going to be fun...

Hair styles for Briell Fetcher.  Dread locks are awesome.

Update schedule change

During this past week, I found that updating this blog every day was very challenging.  I found it difficult to plan new posts because I have to edit my pictures and, hopefully, upload them without the blogger picture upload acting up. That and I'm sick of updating late every night. (I missed Friday and Saturday because I was very tired of the picture upload.)

Updates will return to their normal schedule this week, Fridays and Saturdays.

And a random she-sphinx for you.

One more thing: Japan is seriously going to need all the aid and support they need to overcome this earthquake disaster. So, I encourage you, my readers, go out and donate canned foods, money, do whatever you can to help. Get the word out! Post on your blogs, talk to your friends and family, volunteer a group, pray to God, do what you can do to help these people!