Digital Cameras: Recording Progress on Drawing in One Day

[zoobyshoe]

PlantyThingy

 

[zoobyshoe]

FlowerPetalThingy

 

[zoobyshoe]

FlowerThingy

 

[Mk]

How did you get the image? I'm not very computer savy, and was wondering if there were a way someone might do that.

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]

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."

Yeah, he PM'ed me and explained it. I really don't mind if people do this.

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

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.

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

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 what's 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]

thats totally different from me. i draw what's in my mind mostly, which is why i get the really weird, dali-esque sort of pictures when i draw.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

 

[coffee na lang dear]

i envy how you could make things so very beautiful...i also wish i can see and draw things the way you did.

 

[Mk]

lol I never had any talent with art in general, but hey I never practiced much.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Hmmm, when I looked at the FloweryThing I got a brief wiff of Patchouli.

Hmmm...am I getting a brief whiff of syaesthesia?

A few months ago I met a woman who said the colored pencil drawings made her hear beautiful music. She said she could play it for me on her keyboard sometime. We never got around to it, but I wish we had when I think about it. I'm very curious to know what my drawings sound like.

Just a beautiful use of color and form!

Just for that, I'm going to title it "Detail Of A Hypatia In Bloom".

("FlowerThingy" isn't a title: just something to call it since it had no title.)

i envy how you could make things so very beautiful...i also wish i can see and draw things the way you did.

Just for that, I'll name one after you, too. (What does your name mean, anyway?)

 

[Evo]

Zooby, I love them! The colors are beautiful, the way the lines flow is so soothing. I would love to have these in my house.

 

[fuzzyfelt]

Lovely, zooby.

 

[Mk]

I would love to have these in my house.

How much could you sell them for? Like upwards of $2,000? Just slap "Van Gogh" on the back and that gets you extra at ANY yard sale !

 

[coffee na lang dear]

Just for that, I'll name one after you, too. (What does your name mean, anyway?)

'coffee na lang dear' means 'just coffee dear' and i really do love coffee and that's my sweet way of asking a cup of coffee by the way my name's Pam...

 

[Gale]

they don't look like van gogh... he was a painter... with big wide brush strokes... like, his art is really obviously his... you'd have a bout as much luck calling zooby's work picasso's.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Zooby, I love them! The colors are beautiful, the way the lines flow is so soothing. I would love to have these in my house.

Thanks, Evo. That's really nice to hear. I have a few of them framed and hung, and they really add a lot of zing to the walls of the zoobie brush shelter.

Lovely, zooby.

Thanks, Fi!

'coffee na lang dear' means 'just coffee dear' and i really do love coffee and that's my sweet way of asking a cup of coffee by the way my name's Pam...

Hm...I'll cogitate on how to turn that into a title. I always draw them first, then think up something to call them when they're done. Sometimes I figure it out quickly, with others I never seem to hit on a good idea.

 

[zoobyshoe]

How much could you sell them for? Like upwards of $2,000? Just slap "Van Gogh" on the back and that gets you extra at ANY yard sale !

I'm really kinda attached to them.

they don't look like van gogh... he was a painter... with big wide brush strokes... like, his art is really obviously his... you'd have a bout as much luck calling zooby's work picasso's.

I guess they are pretty individual, although I didn't think so until I tried to show several people how to work in this style. I used to take all my pencils with me to this particular cafe and draw there. When people stopped and complimented me on the drawings I would invite them to sit down and draw with me. Quite a few of them took me up on it, but they usually said "I don't know what to draw." So, I would tell them just to doodle. Put anything down, and then search for a color that went particularly well with the first one. Alot of them asked for lessons in doodling the way I did, and so I'd show them step by step. NO ONE could get the hang of it. I can't really understand why, because the way I lay the lines down seems obvious and natural to me. I guess it underscores how everyone's physiology is different.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Evo Evening

 

[zoobyshoe]

Gale #17

 

[zoobyshoe]

The Hypnagogue's Guide To Terra Incognita

 

[zoobyshoe]

:!) :!) :!) I LOVE IT!

Ah, good. I was debating between "An Evening With Evo" and "Evo Evening". I still may think of something better.

They were all supposed to be the same size as Hypnangogue's. I resized them at photobucket, but screwed something up, or they're not working right. Gale's is too big, and I can't seem to shrink it.

Edit: I think I got them all more the size I originally wanted them now.

 

[zoobyshoe]

The Coffee Cantata

 

[hypatia]

Hmmm...am I getting a brief whiff of syaesthesia?
A few months ago I met a woman who said the colored pencil drawings made her hear beautiful music. She said she could play it for me on her keyboard sometime. We never got around to it, but I wish we had when I think about it. I'm very curious to know what my drawings sound like.
Just for that, I'm going to title it "Detail Of A Hypatia In Bloom".
("FlowerThingy" isn't a title: just something to call it since it had no title.)
Just for that, I'll name one after you, too. (What does your name mean, anyway?)

Now that is quite a honor, thank you!
For more info on Hypatia look here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypatia

 

[hypnagogue]

hey, thanks for the piece zoob! Your art is really beautiful and fluid-- I can't believe you complained to me a while ago that you had a hard time getting your lines to flow (or something along those lines). No matter how you went about it, the end results on the abstract pieces is really elegant.

Question about your art-making binges-- what's it like? I used to get similar urges when I was younger. Then when I went through some hard late teenage years it sort of morphed into a situation where I'd get those kinds of urges when I had lots of negative emotion pent up and drawing and writing served as a kind of cathartic act (remarkably effective actually). Since I've settled down though I've found that for the most part I no longer get those urges at all.

 

[zoobyshoe]

hey, thanks for the piece zoob! Your art is really beautiful and fluid-- I can't believe you complained to me a while ago that you had a hard time getting your lines to flow (or something along those lines). No matter how you went about it, the end results on the abstract pieces is really elegant.

Wow, thanks! That's really nice to hear.
The thing about the lines is this: if you're doing, say, a human figure, the edge of an arm, say, can be drawn as one continuous line from shoulder to hand with all the curves corresponding to the proper muscles and features of that arm. I've met artists who can pretty much do that really nicely in one shot. I can't at all. I have to make that edge up of many joined line segments working on each curve separately, correcting each curve several times. Your drawings looked more like the former to me, where the lines looked to be smooth and continuous in one shot.
There's a certain range of lines that I can do that look smooth and flowing if I stick to the limits of what comes out naturally . In the colored pencil drawings I limit myself to that range. I couldn't go to a life drawing class and do a whole figure with nice, smooth lines: there are too many that are out of my range.
When I looked at your drawings, and also Gale's, I could see that, although they're not as finished as mine, the basic elements you both did demonstrate, were already better than mine. There were other people, too, who had strengths they could exploit if they wanted to, and probably be very good artists.

Question about your art-making binges-- what's it like?

It's like that "I'm really motivated" circuit from the thread in Mind & Brain has kicked in. I feel exited and motivated. I don't think I experience it as a catharsis. (That is more likely to be the case with writing.)

 

[Huckleberry]

Those are beautiful zoob. It must be very satisfying to see your work come together in front of you. What's that like? Do you think it is any different for an artist as it would be for say, an engineer building a bridge?

Many years ago I was taking an architectural engineering class at Wentworth University. I was expecting we would start with simple floorplans and use lots of straight edges and measuring devices. Instead we began by drawing simple shapes and learning how to "see" a picture. Some of the tasks we did were drawing a picture from memory with our eyes closed when we put the pencil to the paper. Another was drawing a picture that was presented to us right side up, up side down. I found that a lot of the things that I see I take for granted.

I wasn't very good at it, but I was impressed with some of the things I drew considering I had never done it before. I still have my work from that class kicking around here somewhere. If you like I'll take some pictures and post them sometime. May be a while because of my move, but I'll get around to it eventually if you want to see some of them.

Again, you draw beautifully.

 

[coffee na lang dear]

hey zoob.. not sure to comment...errr...you do this for me? If yes, thanks a lot and feel honored though...If not, I do appreaciate the work not only this but ALL.

You're really a genius zooby ...when is the exhibit?

 

[Gale]

i don't know about my work personally. Seeing all yours made me go back and look at a few of my doodles and sketches. I really love the colored ones and I'm thinking maybe of trying out some color. But i should probably do a regular drawing like I'm used to first.

The things with my drawings is that i feel like i can't get any depth. maybe because they're abstract? i wish i could take a drawing class or something. the more i think about it, i could never draw portraits like those. everything i do also looks a bit cartoony. i don't know how to break that.

also, thanks for the piece named for me! course now I'm 18... so is there a Gale #18 coming?!? hehe.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Those are beautiful zoob. It must be very satisfying to see your work come together in front of you. What's that like?

Thanks, Huck. It's nice to hear you like them.

Some parts of some drawings are very satisfying to work on. Others are frustrating. Like I said earlier, about every third one I start ends up in the trash, even after several hours of work. I also do a lot of erasing. (You can erase colored pencil if your paper is tough enough, down to a faint pastel stain, and it'll be OK if you draw over that section with rich enough colors.) So, I'd call the whole thing more of a problem solving or trial and error challenge than a monocoque satisfying experience. I enjoy looking at them when they're done.

Do you think it is any different for an artist as it would be for say, an engineer building a bridge?

Engineering has got to be much, much tougher because the engineer has to worry about so many more things than visual appeal.

Some of the tasks we did were drawing a picture from memory with our eyes closed when we put the pencil to the paper. Another was drawing a picture that was presented to us right side up, up side down. I found that a lot of the things that I see I take for granted.

It sounds like you had good instructors. Those are tough excercizes. Yeah, you might start a thread sometime, explain the assignment, show your results, and challenge people here to try it too.