do you think you'd have difficulty drawing this lip flipped right? i noticed us right handed people draw this angle easily. i personally have a hard time drawing a "flip" image of this.
Hmm, not really. I think I have quite a few lips and eyes here that I draw from either angle. In fact, I think I prefer the other angle, to be honest. But then again, I've been drawing nearly nothing but faces every night for a year - I've been practicing! :D
It's really true. We both have talent, but it gets rusty like anything left unused. That's why I have this blog - I have to say, it's really helped. I'm amazed at how different my approach to drawing is now from what it was a year ago. And compared to a few years before that, too. I just hope that, to the outsider whose seen my work before, it's just as good or hopefully improved.
I pulled out some old drawings last night, and there are some things that I just don't do anymore as easily (comics bodies, for one; fashion illustrations too) but I think my faces are much more 'realized' than ever before - I know where certain planes go, where certain curves lie. It's weird.
yup. rusty is the right word. i think i have this all-or-nothing mentallity that isnt good sometimes. like, i dont draw when the conditions arent perfect. so i end up not drawing at all. this year i will have to learn to adjust and adapt.
by the way, i found some more of your old letters to me, with drawings from when you were still working in that mannequin store. :-) and my rachel/phoenix comic book project from FA. remember that issue by john romita jr. which i hated so i re-drew the whole thing?
Aaah! You need to scan that sucker and send it! I still have the two pages I redrew of Ray versus the Selene (in her bikini - ha!). I also found some of your old drawings, some of our FA teachers as caricatures. Damn, I can't remember any of their names. Who was our printmaking prof again? The big, gay one with the moustache? He was fun. Such a terror for the rest of the class, haha...!
Nonon Padilla! i saw him several times when i used to watch plays at Cultural Center. he's one of their artistic directors. our other teachers were Dandan (the preggy lady who smoked alot-sculpture), Chabet (your favorite! he holds exhibits here in the galleries of our ofc bldg)Joey something (Photography). And Araceli Dans-Lee but i dont know why i know that name.
Joey Tañedo - remember? My ersatz husband? We were in our FA101 (Chabet's actually) classroom, Joey, Tessa and I, when I announced, "I'm leaving." To which he replied, "You're leaving me?" So I shot back, "Yes, and I'm taking the children with me!"
Dans-Lee was our typography teacher. Lord, I was so bad at hand-drawing letterforms. If she could only see me now - who the hell needs to hand draw anything when you have computers and bezier curves?!!?
Speaking of which, I'm working on bezier curves now, so I can't post any of my drawings tonight. They now belong to my client. Pfagh.
at the risk of sounding illiterate, what's bezier curves? i certainly know the term but dont know what it means.
and yes, i do remember that witty banter with tanedo! ahahahaha! i miss that!
and who was that thesis panelist who was so mad at our "bawal ang dilaw" thesis? Garalde? obviously he pees on walls. btw, i kept those posters but i can't seem to find where i placed them!!!
Oh, they're those tools you use to draw with in Illustrator when doing shapes. I seldom use them for drawing, but for th project Im doing, its all very stark and strong lines, so it's best I do some curves!
More facial parts studies, using Painter's different brush settings...
do you think you'd have difficulty drawing this lip flipped right? i noticed us right handed people draw this angle easily. i personally have a hard time drawing a "flip" image of this.
ReplyDeleteHmm, not really. I think I have quite a few lips and eyes here that I draw from either angle. In fact, I think I prefer the other angle, to be honest. But then again, I've been drawing nearly nothing but faces every night for a year - I've been practicing! :D
ReplyDeletesigh you're right. practice makes consistent.
ReplyDeleteIt's really true. We both have talent, but it gets rusty like anything left unused. That's why I have this blog - I have to say, it's really helped. I'm amazed at how different my approach to drawing is now from what it was a year ago. And compared to a few years before that, too. I just hope that, to the outsider whose seen my work before, it's just as good or hopefully improved.
ReplyDeleteI pulled out some old drawings last night, and there are some things that I just don't do anymore as easily (comics bodies, for one; fashion illustrations too) but I think my faces are much more 'realized' than ever before - I know where certain planes go, where certain curves lie. It's weird.
yup. rusty is the right word. i think i have this all-or-nothing mentallity that isnt good sometimes. like, i dont draw when the conditions arent perfect. so i end up not drawing at all. this year i will have to learn to adjust and adapt.
ReplyDeleteby the way, i found some more of your old letters to me, with drawings from when you were still working in that mannequin store.
:-) and my rachel/phoenix comic book project from FA. remember that issue by john romita jr. which i hated so i re-drew the whole thing?
Aaah! You need to scan that sucker and send it! I still have the two pages I redrew of Ray versus the Selene (in her bikini - ha!). I also found some of your old drawings, some of our FA teachers as caricatures. Damn, I can't remember any of their names. Who was our printmaking prof again? The big, gay one with the moustache? He was fun. Such a terror for the rest of the class, haha...!
ReplyDeleteNonon Padilla! i saw him several times when i used to watch plays at Cultural Center. he's one of their artistic directors. our other teachers were Dandan (the preggy lady who smoked alot-sculpture), Chabet (your favorite! he holds exhibits here in the galleries of our ofc bldg)Joey something (Photography). And Araceli Dans-Lee but i dont know why i know that name.
ReplyDeleteJoey Tañedo - remember? My ersatz husband? We were in our FA101 (Chabet's actually) classroom, Joey, Tessa and I, when I announced, "I'm leaving." To which he replied, "You're leaving me?" So I shot back, "Yes, and I'm taking the children with me!"
ReplyDeleteDans-Lee was our typography teacher. Lord, I was so bad at hand-drawing letterforms. If she could only see me now - who the hell needs to hand draw anything when you have computers and bezier curves?!!?
Speaking of which, I'm working on bezier curves now, so I can't post any of my drawings tonight. They now belong to my client. Pfagh.
at the risk of sounding illiterate, what's bezier curves? i certainly know the term but dont know what it means.
ReplyDeleteand yes, i do remember that witty banter with tanedo! ahahahaha! i miss that!
and who was that thesis panelist who was so mad at our "bawal ang dilaw" thesis? Garalde? obviously he pees on walls. btw, i kept those posters but i can't seem to find where i placed them!!!
Oh, they're those tools you use to draw with in Illustrator when doing shapes. I seldom use them for drawing, but for th project Im doing, its all very stark and strong lines, so it's best I do some curves!
ReplyDelete