Recording my drawing progress with a digital camera

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What a lovely collection.
 
I miss Zoob. Does anyone know what he's been up to?
 
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Portrait Of Katie James:
Realistic graphite pencil portrait of a young woman with short, tousled dark hair, small hoop earring, and a dark dress with a white floral pattern, shaded grey background.

Black and Grey Prismacolors on Bristol Board, 11 x 14 inches
 
The Perplexing Calculus Of Titles And Other Short Stories:
Black and white pencil drawing of a woman with dark wavy hair, looking to the side, with ornate geometric patterns on her shoulder and garment; a curled paper note pinned to the background reads "Why did you call it ..."

Black and Grey Prismacolors on Bristol Board, with some graphite. 11 x 14 inches
 
Nereid:
Colored pencil drawing of a smiling woman's face in grayscale with red eyes, surrounded by flowing hair in swirling rainbow colors against a dark blue background.

Prismacolors on Bristol Board, 11 x 14 inches

Nereid: noun: 1. (Greek mythology) any of the 50 sea nymphs who were daughters of the sea god Nereus 2. gracious and intelligent former PF mentor
 
WB, Zoobie! I love seeing your work on this forum!

Don't you disappear again. If you do, I'll sic the Supreme Lard on you and you'll be sorry.
 
Wow, I have a tear in my eye, goes to show that not giving up hope is a good thing. Those sketches are beautiful, inspiring, way to go Zoob. We (and not just me) missed you. I hope you stay and ease back into our explorations and discussions about fascinating subjects on the brain, you are one reason, not the only one, that inspired me to dig deeper. Today is going to be a good day, I just decided.

Rhody... :approve:

P.S. Zoob, I hope you saw this https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=489132".
 
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WB zoob! Awesome pictures!

Please stick around, you've been missed by so many.
 
Zooby just spotted on the forum, unleash the dogpile... PM's encouraged, go fellow PF'ers, GO !

Rhody... :biggrin:
 
I recorded another drawing step by step, but including more of the initial linear stages.

The model is Ashley, a girl I met at a coffeehouse a while back:

#1
Black and white photo of a partly drawn portrait on a sheet of paper, with a woman's face and eye visible at left and a faint pencil-drawn eye outline on the paper at right.


#2
Her face is actually much wider than it looks in the photo. It's sculpted by the shadow and that shadow blends into the darkness behind her, giving the impression of a narrower face than she actually has. I'm blocking in the actual shape even though it will later be as obscured by shadow as it is in the photo.
Black-and-white photo of a woman's face in shadow beside a pencil sketch on paper; the sketch shows an outline of the face, one eye and nose partly drawn, with the rest of the sheet blank.


#3
Graphite drawing in progress of a woman's face beside its black-and-white reference photo; the drawing shows only light outline and feature lines, with no shading yet.


#4
Here I've started shading. I shade from left to right because I'm right handed and there's less chance of smudging this way. Eventually I have to lay down a separate piece of paper over the drawing where I rest my arm because the whole thing will have been partly shaded.
Black-and-white photo of a partly finished pencil drawing of a woman's face on a drawing board, with the eyes and nose shaded and the outline of the face and mouth still in light lines.


#5
Graphite pencil drawing in progress of a woman's face in three-quarter view, with the left side shaded darkly and the right side still only lightly sketched in outline.


#6
Big leap from last one to this one. I got into it and forgot to pause to record progress. With the background darkness added her face now looks as narrow as it does in the reference photo.
Black-and-white pencil drawing of a woman's face in progress, with heavy shading on the left side and an outlined, unshaded second eye on the right.


#7
Up close you see what reads as smooth tone from a distance is all actually tiny lines:
Pencil drawing in progress of a close-up of a face showing one eye with a few contour lines and light shading, with soft graphite tone around it and dark shadow at the left edge.


#8
Second eye shading started.
Graphite pencil drawing of a woman's face in profile-leaning three-quarter view, with strong shading on the left side and a pale headscarf-like shape around her head, photographed on a dark surface.


All the shading needs tuning up, but the face is basically there now. Still, the tuning up takes the most time. On the right I'm going to put "stuff": non-representational chatter whose main function is compositional, but which looks like it might mean something if you only understood it: https://www.physicsforums.com/showpost.php?p=3349106&postcount=366
(People like to rorschach their own meanings onto that sort of thing.)

(Comments are welcome, but notice it's a long post and you don't have to quote the whole thing.)
 
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That is looking great zoobyshoe. WOW that sure is a long post:biggrin:
 
Zooby: Awesome work. First thread I have ever subscribed to with the email notifications turned on. That's how great this thread is. I noticed awhile back that GeorginaS managed to get some prints from you. If one were interested, would one PM you about whether this is an option?

Thanks :smile:
 
Always love seeing your work, zoob. I'm always showing it off to anyone who'll appreciate it.
 
edward said:
That is looking great zoobyshoe. WOW that sure is a long post:biggrin:
Thanks, edward! Yeah, it's long. Kind of a poor man's time lapse film.
Saladsamurai said:
Zooby: Awesome work. First thread I have ever subscribed to with the email notifications turned on. That's how great this thread is.
Thanks much Salad! Really happy you think it's worth subscribing to!
I noticed awhile back that GeorginaS managed to get some prints from you. If one were interested, would one PM you about whether this is an option?
Georgina didn't buy those prints from me. They're made and sold by "deviantART" which is a humongous website for amateur artists. I'm "zoobyshoe" there as well, so you can google my gallery there. (I don't think I can directly link without breaking a PF spamming rule, cause I do make a tiny profit for each one sold.) I upload them there as huge files, which could print out much larger than the actual original drawings, so you also have the option of downloading the big file from there, resizing however you like, and printing it out yourself if you have a good printer.
Dembadon said:
Always love seeing your work, zoob. I'm always showing it off to anyone who'll appreciate it.
That's great to hear! Thanks much!
 
DaveC426913 said:
Great work Zoob!
Thanks much, Dave!
dlgoff said:
Nice Progress!
Thanks!
Gad said:
... *thinks of emailing a pic to Zshoe* :-p
Uh Oh! I don't have an opening till about 2042.
 
I know it's bad manners to revive an old thread, but I'm going to the MoMA today and I was checking out their website when this was the first thing I saw:

Abstract painting in Futurist style with layered, fragmented bands of pink, red, green, blue and grey radiating from a central white form, suggesting motion.


At first I thought maybe Zooby had gotten famous for his artwork, but I don't think it's his. Just strikingly similar, (and apparently famous). I actually like Zooby's work better, but I'm not exactly a connoisseur.
 
Here's a bunch of colored pencil swirly doodles for Gale. The first three have titles, the rest don't have titles yet.

Fanfare for Strings, Sackbutt, and Sidewinder:
Colored pencil drawing of abstract swirling organic shapes in green, purple, blue, yellow and orange, with a rainbow serpentine form on a mosaic of multicolored tiles.


Moonsmoke:
Abstract colored pencil drawing of swirling, flame-like shapes in blue, green, yellow, orange and pink, with a pale spiral disc at upper left.


Botanical Dementia with Psychosis of the Palette:
Colored pencil drawing of an abstract swirling organic form with pink, green, yellow, blue and brown bands, shaded in fine cross-hatched strokes against an olive background.


Untitled #1:
Colored pencil drawing of abstract swirling organic shapes in pink, blue, yellow, green and orange, with pale oval forms and a small pink-and-green figure in the lower right.
 
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I like your portraits and drawings Zshoe! Keep us posted with your work. :smile:


zoobyshoe said:
Uh Oh! I don't have an opening till about 2042.

What do you mean 2042? Do you realize that I'm going to look 'different' by then?!