Archive for April, 2007
what’s over there
April 27th, 2007
first doodle ever
April 26th, 2007
This is by my wife Nikki, drawn in one of her makeup classes (she’s in school learning special-effects movie makeup and often comes home wearing beards or bizarre noses). She told me that she’s always wanted to be able to doodle, but over the years has never been able to come up with anything particularly interesting — interlocking lines, or curlicues at best.
However, she’s been doing a lot of drawing and rendering for her various class assignments, and so she’s been flexing that drawing muscle in new and exciting ways. She was positively glowing when she came home and announced that she had actually generated this fun little guy during a lecture in class. Ladies and gentlemen, Nikki’s first doodle.
Everyone has different levels of intrinsic drawing talent, but anyone can learn to draw — really it’s much more about practice than pure inborn talent. Some have an easier time than others, but learning the skill isn’t off-limits to anyone willing to put in the time.
hatched!
April 25th, 2007
happy birthday
April 24th, 2007
This is pretty typical of the sort of things that filled all of my school notebooks my entire life.
tiny slashes feel like papercuts
April 23rd, 2007
Sometimes the tiniest drawings can have a weird sort of energy all their own. I think I was reading a lot of Blade of the Immortal around this time (probably about 2001).
grab yer ankles
April 19th, 2007
I am firmly of the opinion that drawings from life (even poor ones) have more artistic liveliness than drawings from photographs. The process of transposing three dimensions into two gives the work an energy that cannot arise from simply copying shapes from paper.
Over time, drawings from life continue to live on and remain in many ways vibrant, regardless of whether or not they resemble the model. And often an expressive resemblance to the model remains even when details are inaccurate — this can be seen most clearly after the passage of time, when the drawing can no longer compared to the real thing in front of it.
that is not ALF
April 19th, 2007
Old sketchbook! I date this to early 2000.
I’ve got tons of weird stuff in old sketchbooks, but I don’t know how much of it is interesting to anyone besides myself. When I find things like this, though, I know I have to share.
My drawing skill today (in an age when I do not typically draw every day) is probably greater than it was in 2000, but not by leaps and bounds, like my skill in 2000 was over my skill in, say, 1995. I guess everything plateaus at some point?
afi & skade
April 18th, 2007
Old sketchbook time! These were characters from a ridiculous short film project that my friend Stephen and I made in about 1999. I got nostalgic and drew this in early 2000.
