Artwork

[annwfyn]

It's odd how little I look at things.

Today I've been working on my portfolio for the conservator's course - Camberwell want to see some sketches as 'evidence of mannual dexterity'. I've never been much of an artist, so it is incredibly hard work in some ways to produce anything. At first I just tried to draw and (unsurprisingly) produced complete and utter crap. Since then I've been sketching from pictures, from photos, from life, looking incredibly carefully at everything and have realised how very little I normally see, from the way a house is built to the way a pig fits together.

I feel like I'm opening my eyes for the first time.

It's actually quite incredible.

Comments

[crocodilewings.livejournal.com]

Sketching requires no more manual dexterity than basic handwriting. It's a brain-thing more than anything else.

Have you drawn your hand yet?

[ksirafai.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, I'm fairly good at drawing left hands... :P

[crocodilewings.livejournal.com]

Let me guess...right hands not so good?

[ksirafai.livejournal.com]

They keep _moving_ when I try to draw them!

:P

[crocodilewings.livejournal.com]

Have you tried sedatives?

[cairmen.livejournal.com]

I've had the same experience - it's astonishing.

Of course, I also, at the same time, started seeing polygons everywhere. So your way is probably better.

[lilitufire.livejournal.com]

It might be worth checking out some stuff about drawing for biology, that might be helpful, since precision is emphasised for that.

[sea-of-flame.livejournal.com]

Or indeed technical drawing...

[melsner.livejournal.com]

the way a pig fits together.

Have you been taking pigs apart and trying to put them back together again?