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Re: Some drawings
« Reply #25 on: April 17, 2013, 06:19:17 PM »
I wanted to revisit this thread for one last drawing. This is of one set of my grandparents. I was really happy with this one.

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Re: Some drawings
« Reply #26 on: April 17, 2013, 06:35:24 PM »
Quote from: ChuckJ on April 17, 2013, 06:19:17 PM
I wanted to revisit this thread for one last drawing. This is of one set of my grandparents. I was really happy with this one.


That is awesome !!
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Re: Some drawings
« Reply #27 on: March 28, 2015, 12:54:09 AM »
Decided to add to this thread from a while back.















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Re: Some drawings
« Reply #28 on: March 28, 2015, 09:47:01 AM »
Chuck, that is really good. Your dog and muppet sketch made me laugh!

ETA: I have a lot of respect for artistic ability like yours. My drawing skill got stuck in the 'stick figure' stage, and my stick figures suffer from scoliosis.
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Re: Some drawings
« Reply #29 on: March 28, 2015, 10:28:03 AM »
Quote from: Big Dog on March 28, 2015, 09:47:01 AM
Chuck, that is really good. Your dog and muppet sketch made me laugh!

ETA: I have a lot of respect for artistic ability like yours. My drawing skill got stuck in the 'stick figure' stage, and my stick figures suffer from scoliosis.

Thanks Big Dog. I wish I had more creativity where I could do things without using reference photos. Also wish my hand was more steady. Here's a few more dogs and other things.













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Re: Some drawings
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Re: Some drawings
« Reply #31 on: March 28, 2015, 01:11:27 PM »
I like the Doberman sketch. May I copy it?
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Re: Some drawings
« Reply #32 on: March 28, 2015, 01:19:31 PM »
Quote from: Big Dog on March 28, 2015, 01:11:27 PM
I like the Doberman sketch. May I copy it?

Yeah.
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Re: Some drawings
« Reply #33 on: March 28, 2015, 01:28:25 PM »
Quote from: ChuckJ on April 05, 2013, 03:57:40 PM
From photos. I can't do anything from memory which is one reason I'd never consider myself an artist. An artist can create. I can't do very much without some sort of reference.

Maybe the creating will come in time.

I said in my first post I'd been doing this for the past year. It's actually been a little longer because I did my first drawing around January or February of last year.

Let me tell you a story that might be of some help.

I played the trumpet since I was 9 years old all the way into adulthood.  I can sight-read no problem -- the music goes from the sheet to the sound.  But I was NEVER able to improvise.  Even when I "improvised" it was technical -- a 3rd up, a 5th down, a riff heard on a recording.  I was a good technical player but knew my limitations. 

As an adult, I taught myself to play the flute.  Once I learned overtones (accidentally) I found ALL I could do was riff.  I was no Chris Wood, mind you (who is), but I could carry my own in a total improv.  I rocked with some live band, making it up as I went.  I found I had an instinctive feel for key and what works.  I came closer to talented than with the trumpet.  There is still a mechanical quality to my flute playing so I will never be great -- but at least I made to not 1/2 bad.

Interestingly I can NOT sight read with the flute AT ALL.  My brain says "that is an A-flat quarter note and thus needs...  When I want to know what a song sounds like and all I have is sheet musing I have to play it with the trumpet, then mentally transpose and free form it on the flute.

I have always found this an interesting personal insight into how the brain works and maybe a glimpse into the nature of talent.

Your artwork is very good.  Many of us would give our left arm to even approach your level of artistry.  That, my friend, is a gift from God given to very few.  And did it occur to you your humor is where your art is?

Don't worry about needing a frame of reference.  One day you will find your impromptu medium.
 
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Re: Some drawings
« Reply #34 on: March 28, 2015, 01:39:25 PM »
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Re: Some drawings
« Reply #35 on: March 29, 2015, 12:51:58 AM »
Chuck, I'm envious of your talent. Found an old scrapbook from my childhood with some of my early drawings as a kid. They were awful and my "talent" hasn't improved over the years.

All of your drawings are excellent, but was touched especially by the Boxer picture. My son and his  wife just lost their boxer, Layla, a few weeks ago. She was a wonderful dog who took such good care of their two little ones. She guarded them and was very loving.

Also loved your baby elephant picture. It looks so much like Raja, the first elephant born at the St Louis Zoo. One of the curators let me pet him when he was a baby. Now he's a grown up bull elephant who's sired many babies, can't get anywhere near him now, too dangerous. But you've totally captured the look of those ellie babies. They're precious.
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Re: Some drawings
« Reply #36 on: March 29, 2015, 08:20:26 AM »
Did someone say "Baby Elephant"...

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Re: Some drawings
« Reply #37 on: March 29, 2015, 12:00:15 PM »
Quote from: SaintLouieWoman on March 29, 2015, 12:51:58 AM
Chuck, I'm envious of your talent. Found an old scrapbook from my childhood with some of my early drawings as a kid. They were awful and my "talent" hasn't improved over the years.

All of your drawings are excellent, but was touched especially by the Boxer picture. My son and his  wife just lost their boxer, Layla, a few weeks ago. She was a wonderful dog who took such good care of their two little ones. She guarded them and was very loving.

Also loved your baby elephant picture. It looks so much like Raja, the first elephant born at the St Louis Zoo. One of the curators let me pet him when he was a baby. Now he's a grown up bull elephant who's sired many babies, can't get anywhere near him now, too dangerous. But you've totally captured the look of those ellie babies. They're precious.

Thanks SLW. I quit drawing when I was about 13 years old. I didn't start again until 2013. I don't want to date myself but that is more than 35 years but less than 45 years between drawing attempts. My wife had never seen any of my old drawings until a few months back when I dug out my old childhood drawing pad. My wife, who loves and supports my current drawing, actually poked fun at my childhood stuff.

My mother also loved the baby elephant the first time she saw it. She kept flipping back to it as she looked through the pad. I like it okay, but I drew it from a reference photo and can see all of the mistakes I made. On the bright side, everyone that's seen it so far has known it was a baby elephant and didn't mistake it for an octopus or something.

Here's a few more. These'll be the last for awhile.
 








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Re: Some drawings
« Reply #38 on: March 30, 2015, 09:51:18 AM »
Quote from: freedumb2003b on March 28, 2015, 01:28:25 PM
I played the trumpet since I was 9 years old all the way into adulthood.  I can sight-read no problem -- the music goes from the sheet to the sound.  But I was NEVER able to improvise.  Even when I "improvised" it was technical -- a 3rd up, a 5th down, a riff heard on a recording.  I was a good technical player but knew my limitations. 

As an adult, I taught myself to play the flute.  Once I learned overtones (accidentally) I found ALL I could do was riff.  I was no Chris Wood, mind you (who is), but I could carry my own in a total improv.  I rocked with some live band, making it up as I went.  I found I had an instinctive feel for key and what works.  I came closer to talented than with the trumpet.  There is still a mechanical quality to my flute playing so I will never be great -- but at least I made to not 1/2 bad.

Interestingly I can NOT sight read with the flute AT ALL.  My brain says "that is an A-flat quarter note and thus needs...  When I want to know what a song sounds like and all I have is sheet musing I have to play it with the trumpet, then mentally transpose and free form it on the flute.

I'm impressed that I understood all of what you wrote here. :whistling:
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Re: Some drawings
« Reply #39 on: March 30, 2015, 10:28:36 AM »
Very talented... :cheersmate:
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Re: Some drawings
« Reply #40 on: March 30, 2015, 08:24:03 PM »
Quote from: freedumb2003b on March 28, 2015, 01:28:25 PM
Let me tell you a story that might be of some help.

I played the trumpet since I was 9 years old all the way into adulthood.  I can sight-read no problem -- the music goes from the sheet to the sound.  But I was NEVER able to improvise.  Even when I "improvised" it was technical -- a 3rd up, a 5th down, a riff heard on a recording.  I was a good technical player but knew my limitations. 

As an adult, I taught myself to play the flute.  Once I learned overtones (accidentally) I found ALL I could do was riff.  I was no Chris Wood, mind you (who is), but I could carry my own in a total improv.  I rocked with some live band, making it up as I went.  I found I had an instinctive feel for key and what works.  I came closer to talented than with the trumpet.  There is still a mechanical quality to my flute playing so I will never be great -- but at least I made to not 1/2 bad.

Interestingly I can NOT sight read with the flute AT ALL.  My brain says "that is an A-flat quarter note and thus needs...  When I want to know what a song sounds like and all I have is sheet musing I have to play it with the trumpet, then mentally transpose and free form it on the flute.

I have always found this an interesting personal insight into how the brain works and maybe a glimpse into the nature of talent.

Your artwork is very good.  Many of us would give our left arm to even approach your level of artistry.  That, my friend, is a gift from God given to very few.  And did it occur to you your humor is where your art is?

Don't worry about needing a frame of reference.  One day you will find your impromptu medium.

Don't know how I missed your comment the other day. First, thanks for the kind words and I do credit God for whatever talent I do have.

As for music, I come from what I guess could be called a musically family on my dad's side, but all I can play is the radio. I don't have clue as to most of what you said, but I did understand enough to get the analogy.

Speaking along the lines of music and how the brain works, my dad, who can't read a note of music, plays the guitar. Before arthritis started bothering him he was good enough that he played lead guitar in rock bands in his youth and gospel bands as an adult. After years of playing the guitar he decided to buy a used piano and learn to play it. He got to where he could play the piano a bit with his right hand (guitar picking hand), but he never could get his chording hand to work correctly.
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Re: Some drawings
« Reply #41 on: April 05, 2015, 09:13:52 PM »
Chuck, you have a great talent!! I can draw some, but rusty and out of practice.
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Re: Some drawings
« Reply #42 on: April 06, 2015, 09:54:19 AM »
Wow.  I sure like seeing your drawings.
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