PSP. I now see why a lot of my classmates are always bored while sketching, cos I now more or less share their sentiments. XD
Zhang Xiaolong is amazing at this.
Liu Hao, too.
Bird's eye view.
After the monitors cleaned up. : )
Not going to say much about how I've been doing, except that I don't really like what I've drawn so far... which is why I'm not posting mine here. Not to be emo, but I'd really just prefer not to immortalize it on my blog. =D=
For one thing, I find the size at which they normally draw head busts -- almost life-size -- overwhelming. I prefer to draw smaller, because I'm used to drawing manga. I strain to draw smaller heads, to fit more into each panel, to fit more panels into each page, not the other way around.
Another thing. My pencil sketches always come out gray and toneless, because in drawing manga, I'm used to sketching out each page carelessly and using the same pen pressure all throughout, cos pencils are erased after inking. It's not the same case with life sketching, where pencil technique and contant change in pen pressure matter.
I have to break these habits in order to get better!
I dislike doing something I'm not good at, so I tried to be good at sketching, but I just ended up tiring myself out again and again. So now, before I get neurosis, I'm putting all my sketching books back into the cabinet and taking a break from realism. I'll go back to work on my weekly sketches when it's close to grading time in early January, and post them up here when I'm done. Hopefully I can be less uptight about realism then. ^A^;
Here's a study I did on my own, of someone you'd think I'd like to draw...
Needless to say, this isn't halfway done. OTL I guess I just really have a short attention span, no matter how pretty the model! XD I didn't even get to the hair, and that's normally my favorite part, LOL. I'll redeem myself some other time.
This actually reminds me of when I first tried drawing manga, back when I was twelve. At that time, it was so frustrating, that after a few pages, I gave up and decided that I won't be a manga-ka when I grow up afterall.
Four years later, the art director of Otaku Mangazine contacted me for a manga gig. I declined, saying that it wasn't for me, but then he said, "Have you even tried it?" to which I thought, well, it's been a while, so maybe I will give it a shot. And, before I knew it, I was drawing manga! What's more, I no longer found it difficult, but fun and gratifying.
Anyway, here's to hoping that it will be the same for realism -- that the reason why I keep on running and getting nowhere, is cos of this masochistic overachieving attitude. >___>;
Here are Liu Man and Lu Chen doodling while taking a break from realism during class. Doodling or "fast drafting" is actually a part of our class, and they're actually doing homework. We have 20 pages due tomorrow.
Lu Chen asked me to pose for a doodle / caricature. Hehe, it's just 5 degrees and I'm already dressed very very warmly.
Yang Xuemeng, Cai Lu, and Mr. Skeleton.
Here are some shots of doodles that I took from the pages of two of my male classmates' sketchbooks. Everyone here is a varied artist! Absolutely amazing.
Roomies.
Self-portrait. Way cool!
Yang Yujiao, a PE classmate, came over to my room yesterday. She doodled me while I was sketching... realism. TTvTT; I made spaghetti for us last night, haha.
Zhang Xiaolong drew me in his anime-style. It doesn't look like me at all, except for the blank stare, haha! Too pretty.
For the first time in a handful of weeks, I tried to draw in anime-style yesterday. I found it shocking that my pencil wasn't as confident as it used to be! Before, when I want to draw a character, all I had to do was know that which character I wanted to draw, and that's exactly who would come out on the paper. The pencil strokes come out almost automatically.
But, this time, after deciding that I wanted to draw Hongfei, I put my pencil to paper as I normally would... but, while sketching, I was surprised to find myself worrying about technical things, such as camera angle, head structure and proportion, lighting... so much so that in paying attention to following these rules, and at the same time, trying to hold back cos I was not drawing realism afterall, Hongfei was starting not to look and feel like Hongfei!
And, let me tell you it was kind of horrifying, cos for a moment, I thought I somehow unlearned how to draw manga... O___O;
But, yeah, it turned out pretty okay afterall... Hongfei still looks like himself, but even Yujiao said that he appears to be more 'dimensional' here, not to mention more "man," LOL! I dunno, that was actually was traumatized me at first -- that he came out manlier than usual, haha. Not quite sure if the mediocre image quality captures that feel, though. ; ))
Our realism sessions are over and done with, but I still have to learn doodling techniques, and I still have a an obligatory contest entry, plus 12/20 pages of doodles due tomorrow! I miss my charas, and I miss drawing anime-style, but, I gotta learn how to deal, srsly.
Belated congratulations on bagging that student exchange program to Japan, Tif! <333
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