Sketch month?
Apr. 7th, 2009 08:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
olmueI've been enjoying the various poems I've been reading on LJ (it's poetry month, I think). Trust me, you definitely don't want to read any of my sorry attempts at poetry. I admire it from afar, and it's better for everyone that way. But maybe I'll do a sketch month. I have a sketch book that's supposed to be for live drawings (ie, not from photos), which makes them both looser but hopefully less posed and more active.
Even in something simple, like people talking around a table, you will see that people have the annoying habit of moving around. The thing to remember is that people make a lot of repetitive movements, so sketch the main shapes and then you can go back and fill in the details. This one is of some teens sitting around a table, talking that I drew while on a youth trip last spring. (The other hard thing to do is to draw people without them noticing. They end up going all posed or wanting to see, and then it just goes weird.)
Images copyright Rose Green
Obviously when they are sleeping it's easier to get details. This one is one that I like, not just for the picture, but because my daughter asked me to "draw her to sleep" instead of singing or reading one night.
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Even in something simple, like people talking around a table, you will see that people have the annoying habit of moving around. The thing to remember is that people make a lot of repetitive movements, so sketch the main shapes and then you can go back and fill in the details. This one is of some teens sitting around a table, talking that I drew while on a youth trip last spring. (The other hard thing to do is to draw people without them noticing. They end up going all posed or wanting to see, and then it just goes weird.)
Images copyright Rose Green
Obviously when they are sleeping it's easier to get details. This one is one that I like, not just for the picture, but because my daughter asked me to "draw her to sleep" instead of singing or reading one night.
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