What were the main challenges of drawing animals? With the cats, the main problem was that they were moving all the time. This made it extremely difficult to capture any pose or detail. I was often left with an incomplete outline of a cat, with the head or some other part of the body missing […]
Monthly Archives: September 2012
Check and log: Drawing animals
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Fish on a plate
Sunday 23 September 2012 I have drawn the fish this afternoon. I chose a fresh gilthead fish. I had bought it yesterday already, but in the evening I was too tired for drawing, but today I took the time and drew, and now the fish is in the oven. I did not want to wait […]
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Grabbing the chance
The task was to grab the chance of drawing an animal whenever the chance arises. Then after practicing in two sessions of several hours, with different animal poses and different drawing media, to take a large sheet and make a drawing in my preferred media. Wednesday 5 September 2012 I began with this exercise yesterday […]
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Research point: George Stubbs
I did a Google image search with keywords “skeleton cat” and lots of images came up. I’m a bit sensitive to the topic at the moment, because Paula is so skinny that one can feel every bone. I’m afraid I’ll have nightmares from studying the skeletal structure of the cat more closely. So I deliberately […]
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Check and log: Drawing plants and flowers
How will your experiments with negative space help your observational drawing in the future? Drawing negative space definitely helps to draw more realistic and natural shapes, and I think whenever I was attentive to negative space the drawing improved. But I’m still at the beginning and need much more practice. The main problem is to […]
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Drawing plants and flowers
This was another project which took just ages to complete… and there is still one more task to do which I had overlooked. The resulting feeling is that of having rushed over things and again realizing how much more practice I need to be able to talk about skill, rather than attempts. The project consisted […]
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Research point: Renaissance masters depicting animals
The objective of this research point was to look at how Renaissance masters like Leonardo da Vinci and Dürer depicted animals, to make notes and find some images to include in the learning log. Somehow I got carried away with the topic, realizing that I don’t know much about Renaissance masters and wanting to find […]
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