Okay, so I went all around the perimeter of this drawing first, working from a photo, and showed the result in my last post. As an exercise, it was fairly amusing and I really expected a pretty goofy result (well, a much goofier result at any rate ... maybe next time) because I thought I would probably be further off in more parts than it turned out I was.
When you work from one side to another or all over the page, you have multiple internal checks for things lining up, being at the same level, coming together at the right points or leaving a certain shape in negative space. Here, the only negative space was around the shape and under the guy's right arm.
Next time, maybe I'll try a more peculiar outline. Maybe next time I'll try doing a still life (or something else able to stay still long enough since this takes a little while). At any rate, it livened the routine up a bit for me!
love these progressive pictures, both the first step and the "finished" product (or perhaps the second step?) are very evocative - especially the facial expressions of both the man and the dog in the second one.
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Good exercise, and I like the way it turned out - the poor doggie looks terrified! You're really good at doing hands (and paws).
ReplyDeleteActually I guess she's supposed to look frantic but more like frantic to throw a tongue into his face... You are used to cats, who almost never want to be upside down, and especially not in a wrestling scenario. Dogs often Do. In fact, dogs can bother you to death trying to get you to play rowdily. Here, he'd scooped her to get her to let him read a magazine article, but she remained unquelled...
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