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Offline ChuckJ

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Some drawings
« on: April 05, 2013, 01:44:20 PM »
One of the things that I've been doing in the past year to keep from going crazy is doing some drawings and sketches. I've still got to work on shading and proportions, but I've made some progress. A lot of times I seem to run out of patience.






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Re: Some drawings
« Reply #1 on: April 05, 2013, 01:57:42 PM »
Looks REAL good!
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Re: Some drawings
« Reply #2 on: April 05, 2013, 02:05:34 PM »
I like em all!  You have a good talent.  I could never do faces.  I am not a precision kind of person.   :whatever:  Good job!
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Re: Some drawings
« Reply #3 on: April 05, 2013, 03:04:56 PM »
Thanks. My wife likes them. I tell her that in my opinion they look better if you stand about 20' away from them and squint your eyes. It makes her mad.

I have a lot of trouble with eyes and keep things on a face half way symmetrical.

My first attempt using watercolor pencils ended up looking like something done by a first grader. Maybe worse. Even the wife had to admit that that one wasn't very pleasant.

Here's my first attempt with soft pastels.



And my first serious attempt at colored pencils. My scanner kind of morphed the colors a little on it.

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Re: Some drawings
« Reply #4 on: April 05, 2013, 03:09:41 PM »
Oh Hell, those are great, awesome.
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Re: Some drawings
« Reply #5 on: April 05, 2013, 03:43:00 PM »
You captured the Basset hound very, very well.

Are these from memory or live animals?
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Re: Some drawings
« Reply #6 on: April 05, 2013, 03:50:22 PM »
Those are great you have talent
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Re: Some drawings
« Reply #7 on: April 05, 2013, 03:50:55 PM »
They look fantastic!!! I have to get back to drawing as well..
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Re: Some drawings
« Reply #8 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.
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Re: Some drawings
« Reply #9 on: April 05, 2013, 04:02:57 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.
Even Leonardo had to start somewhere.
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Re: Some drawings
« Reply #10 on: April 05, 2013, 04:29:15 PM »
My wife says that they're very good.  She is the artist in the family . . . so far, anyways, as The Heiress has picked up her talents.
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Re: Some drawings
« Reply #11 on: April 05, 2013, 07:18:35 PM »
Those are great.  I admire talent like that. 
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Re: Some drawings
« Reply #12 on: April 05, 2013, 07:30:56 PM »
Those are great Chuck. When I was in school I loved drawing.  Once I started working, though, I put all of that  out of my head. Now I just admire other peoples' work.

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Re: Some drawings
« Reply #13 on: April 05, 2013, 08:54:02 PM »
Quote from: ChuckJ on April 05, 2013, 03:57:40 PM
Maybe the creating will come in time.

You do great work.  The creativity will come.  Just keep perfecting your technique and the different mediums your working with.

Have you ever tried painting?   I took several adult ed classes.  Loved it.

 
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Re: Some drawings
« Reply #14 on: April 06, 2013, 05:27:16 AM »
Quote from: Dori on April 05, 2013, 08:54:02 PM
You do great work.  The creativity will come.  Just keep perfecting your technique and the different mediums your working with.

Have you ever tried painting?   I took several adult ed classes.  Loved it.

 

Thanks to everyone, and BSS, tell your wife thanks for me.

Dori, my wife has been after me to try painting for a few months now, but I've been resisting. Of course resisting her usually eventually fails. She did the same thing with colored pencils and pastels. I finally caved with both.

My biggest concern with trying painting is that I don't have the hand control that I used to have. Maybe it's because I'm middle-aged now. I tried drawing for a few months way back when I was 13 years old. The drawings weren't great, but the lines were smooth and fluid. Now 35+ years later the drawings are better, but the lines are much more difficult.
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Re: Some drawings
« Reply #15 on: April 07, 2013, 06:11:19 PM »
Quote from: ChuckJ on April 05, 2013, 01:44:20 PM
One of the things that I've been doing in the past year to keep from going crazy is doing some drawings and sketches. I've still got to work on shading and proportions, but I've made some progress. A lot of times I seem to run out of patience.




Darryl's likeness  is DEAD on   :cheersmate:
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Re: Some drawings
« Reply #16 on: April 07, 2013, 07:58:02 PM »
Thanks.

This one was supposed to be Rick. I think I had done some more work on it after this scan, but not much. I'm just too lazy to rescan it. I actually like this one better than the Darryl one even though it doesn't look as much like who it supposed to look like.

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Re: Some drawings
« Reply #17 on: April 07, 2013, 08:21:37 PM »
Wow, that's really good.
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Re: Some drawings
« Reply #18 on: April 07, 2013, 09:32:32 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.

One of America's greatest illustrators - Norman Rockwell - often used photos, especially in the latter part of his career.

I think you have a great talent, Chuck, and you should stick with it.
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Re: Some drawings
« Reply #19 on: April 07, 2013, 09:40:50 PM »
I have a hand-drawn portrait of Ronald Reagan hanging on the wall downstairs.  It's pencil and charcoal.

I have a photo of it somewhere.
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Re: Some drawings
« Reply #20 on: April 07, 2013, 10:41:14 PM »
Chuck
Those are really good.

Years ago I bought that book  "Drawing with the right side of the brain" by
Betty Edwards

she said that the reason most of us can't draw worth a darn is because we
don't draw what we see...we draw the symbols.
Example:

By drawing from photographs placed upsidedown where we tend to see only
the connectedness of lines rather then the symbols of noses or kneecaps our
drawings tend to be more realistic.

This is an art of seeing, not of physical dexterity.

But still a hard nut to crack for most of us.

So I think it's cool that you can see and add your own interpretation.
That's probably what it's all about.


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Re: Some drawings
« Reply #21 on: April 08, 2013, 06:38:47 AM »
Thanks again guys.

Chris: Funny you should mention Ronald Reagan. A few days back I was looking for reference photos of cowboys and came across a photo of Reagan. I thought he'd be good to try, but I haven't gotten around to it yet.

hopfrog: The only art class I've ever taken was right after that book came out. The art teacher swore by it. At the time I was just taking the class because it was easy credits. Never did pay much attention. The teacher was kind of easy to please. Me and the other guys would joke around until right before the bell then smear some paint on paper and call it abstract. She was always happy with it.
She was actually a very good artist. I would have probably learned something if I had paid attention, but what does a teenager know?
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Re: Some drawings
« Reply #22 on: April 08, 2013, 08:46:17 AM »
These are really good, Chuck.  You have serious talent!
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Re: Some drawings
« Reply #23 on: April 08, 2013, 09:34:04 AM »
OMG! you're awesome!
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Re: Some drawings
« Reply #24 on: April 08, 2013, 10:59:58 AM »
Both Darryl and Rick look exactly like who they're supposed to be.  OMG, I could never do that.  I think I could draw cats pretty well at one point, but never, ever human faces.
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