A Drawing In Progress

The_Professional

Very nice!! I like them all.

zoobyshoe

Thanks so much, Gale. I'm happy you like those.
As a matter of fact, I had the same trauma. I didn't start playing with color again untill I was in my 40's. The impulse behind those colored pencil drawings is just doodling: playing. The first time I fell into doodling with the colored pencils it ended up looking cool to me, so I just kept going till I'd filled the whole page.

zoobyshoe

They're all 11X14 inches.

zoobyshoe

Thanks, Professional. I'm glad you like them.

Smurf

looks familiar, who is he?

Pengwuino

Ivan Seeking.

zoobyshoe

That's Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States, who presided over what was probably the most turbulent period in our history; the civil war, a conflict in which several states in the Southern US tried to band together and withdraw from the United States to become a separate nation.

Every US citizen knows his face instantly, not just from history in school, but because it has been on our five dollar bill for a long time: most of us probably see this face a couple times a day as a result.

This drawing, though, is from a photo taken before he became president, and lacks the beard most people associate with him. I wanted to do a different take on him.

Smurf

Ah. It's the beard, that's why I didn't recognize him. My first reaction was Jackson.

coffee na lang dear

clever zoob...

zoobyshoe

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Mk

If you have Windows, you can right click on the image with the button on the mouse that is on the right side, then click on the option that is something like "set image as background."

If you are running Mac OS X you must save the image, then open System Prefrences> Desktop & Screensaver. Then double click on "Choose Picture..." (probably the ninth one down on the left frame), under the Desktop part, and navigate to where you saved it.

Can you draw what you see in your head well, or only what you see outside your head?

So far all we've seen are abstract works and faces, have you done anything else?

zoobyshoe

Yeah, he PM'ed me and explained it. I really don't mind if people do this.
I can't draw the stuff in my head at all. The colored pencil stuff is made up as I go along. I'm not working from a mental image.
No, all I do are people and the colored pencil stuff. Never got into landscapes or architectural stuff.

Gale

thats totally different from me. i draw whats in my mind mostly, which is why i get the really weird, dali-esque sort of pictures when i draw. the only time i can look at something and draw it is if its already a picture, then i can just redraw the lines i see. but i can't look at like something in front of me and draw it very well.

Ever done a portrait that wasn't a picture first... i fail miserably at those everytime.

hypatia

Hmmm, when I looked at the FloweryThing I got a brief wiff of Patchouli. Just a beautiful use of color and form!

zoobyshoe

When I try this all that happens is the page get's filled with a bunch of disconnected sketches. My imagination doesn't create pre-composed, Dali-esque scenes.
This just takes practise. I can't do it very quickly, and it's always a struggle, but this is the best kind of excercize.
I used to torment all my acquaintances by forcing them to sit for me. You're really lucky if you find someone who'll sit for an hour for you, and you always feel like you're imposing on them. This is mainly why I gave up and switched to taking photo's of the people I wanted to draw. A photo will sit still forever for you. Plus you can scale up from a photo with proportional dividers or a grid system and get very good proportions.