I think a person’s creative mind can come up with perfect solutions to any problem. But then the conscious mind gets involved, puts in its 2 cents, and ends up making things difficult or turning them to rubbish.
Month: August 2014
My apologies for the delay… Prior church commitments kept me from staying on track, and I feel like I’m playing catchup, but, so be it.
The challenge for day 5 was “refine”. We were given 7 choices, and were asked to select one, and go with it. They were:
- Bigfoot
- “Your boss”
- A shark
- Skull
- Pelican
- Evil Space Villain
- Horse
I kicked a couple of ideas around on a sheet– Bigfoot, a skull, even a pelican.
But I kept coming back to the “villain” idea. So I took it, and refined it a bit. The end result is on the second sheet. Here’s a close-up.
Nowhere in the directions did it say the villain had to be humanoid. And, even though the idea of a human being considered evil in space is appealing and potentially more frightening, I decided to go with something a little more insect-like in nature.
How did yours come out? I’m going to check stuff out later and see what others created.
Gotta admit, I’m really enjoying these challenges.
I got a little behind due to other commitments, and because I wanted to give these challenges the attention they deserved.
That said, the challenge for day 4 was to draw our non-dominant hand 5 different ways. Here are mine.
Later today I’ll check out Von’s solution, and catch up on yesterday’s challenge.
Don’t forget to share your stuff with the tag #draw21days. I’ve been checking stuff out on twitter, and there’s some really awesome work happening.
For day 3, we were give a reference sheet and asked to “draw what we saw”. I ended up seeing, among other things, a couple of dogs, a somewhat angry bird-like creature, some sushi, a funky-looking toe, a person ready to go fencing. There’s even a little stick man surfing.
What did you see?
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21-day drawing challenge: Day 2
It’s been a long while since I last did continuous line drawings– day 2’s challenge. Specifically, we were challenged with creating:
- A smiling face
- A hand holding a soda bottle
- a man riding a unicycle
- a running dog
Here are my drawings.
A smiling face. I tried several (you might see bits of them on some of the other images). With this one, I felt satisfied with the results.
Now, the directions didn’t state HOW the bottle was supposed to be held. Again, I tried a couple of different approaches. This was the winner for me.
The man on a unicycle. I’ve never drawn a unicycle before, so I needed some photo reference. I tried one in a side view, but getting the pedals and the unicycle the way I wanted was a pain. I found a “dead-on” shot of a unicycle, and it occurred to me that using that angle would work with the structure of the cycle, especially because I was dealing with one line.
My running dog. Again, I needed photo reference, and found a cute bulldog puppy to use.
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21-day drawing challenge: Day 1
Yesterday was the beginning of a 21-day drawing challenge course on Lynda.com (you can find out more here). The day’s first challenge was to draw a cat. Frankly, I’ve always felt animals were one of my weak areas, so I would qualify this as a definite “challenge”. That said, here’s the piece I did yesterday.
Are you also doing the challenge? If so, share it ’round the inter webs– Twitter, Facebook, Instagram– and tag it with #draw21days. I know I’ll be checking out what other folks are doing from time to time.