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[nakotaco]

changed my journal/flist titles *dances around*

Look at this fucking adorable picture of one of my doggies that my sister sent me on my cell yesterday!!

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[kriscynical]

I love dogs that are either fuzzbutts or smoosh-faced. Mine is the later because the former makes me sneeze. :P

I personally wouldn't add any more toothpicks to your abstract. It looks lovely the way it is, and as my digital prof used to say, "There is such a thing as noodling a piece to death". It looks nice and balanced the way it is, imo. :)

That's a fabulous drawing of drapery, especially since you haven't done much formal still life drawing before now. Fabric is really effing difficult, so kudos to you!

...I know the best advice that can be given to an aspiring artist is basically "PRACTICE ALL THE FUCKING TIME,"Yep, pretty much. lol I'm kind of surprised you haven't had drawing classes before based on the stuff you've posted here. You have great potential, grasshopper. If you want to get even more form to your stuff, look for little areas of reflected light on the underside of things. (Like if you place a white bowl on top of hot pink paper, the hot pink is going to reflect up on the underside of the bowl, etc.) You can

[nakotaco]

I know, right? XD Mine are definitely both fuzzbutts. I'm One Of Those People about my pets, I talk about them all the time and usually in baby-talk.

Yeahhhh, I think intellectually I know I should just leave it the shit alone, but I keep looking at it and going "this didn't take me NEARLY long enough, surely there's SOMETHING else that needs to be done before it's finished!" Haa. This is why I've closed my bristol-board pad and put it away, if I can't see it it's much easier to not mess with.

Thank you! :D I finally got myself some of those wonderful little paper smudge-sticks, which I think is really helping. I'm totally going to have to try doing exactly that now, with the white bowl and the hot pink paper, haha! That sounds like SO MUCH FUN. Especially now that I have my gouache, I love this stuff to death.

[kriscynical]

Oh believe me, I am "one of those people", too. Most of the time I call Sushi "baby" or "sweetie pea" and I always talk to her in baby talk (if she's being good, which can be a rarity some days).

Blending stumps are a very nice tool for graphite still life, yes. If you end up doing more like that on your own, you should think about getting a tin of drawing pencils with different hardnesses of lead. A small one like this or a slightly larger one like this would be good if you don't already have different hardness levels of leads. It'll let you get a wider value range in your pieces without breaking the bank

[nakotaco]

Oh yeah, our dogs are nine and we still refer to them as "the babies." And they both have a million stupid nicknames. XD

Damn I love Dick Blick. I got my gouache set on sale there and after tax and shipping I paid $15.18 for 24 of them. Yeah, right now I just have like six 2B ones, I really need to get some more.

I get now why my costume teacher spent the first several weeks of the semester talking about how awesome gouache is - you can get so many values out of just the one color! Which is super-useful when you're doing costume renderings and you have to show that kind of thing.

If it were not 3:30 in the morning, I would be going on a hunt for a white bowl. HA. Dimension's one of the things I really need to work on - my observation skills are good enough that I can get the shape of stuff without much of a problem, generally, it's making them look three-dimensional that's a challenge.

[flashily]

I really need to practice drawing again. When I was 10-11 I used to draw Disney characters by looking at them in disney adventures magazine. I was crap at it at first, but then I got pretty good at it. Then I stopped drawing.

And I am so kfjdslk over that fabric drawing. It's beautiful.

[kyatto]

I like the drapery a lot! The best way to practice drawing things with shading/highlights would be to use a regular HB pencil (easy to pick up at Michaels). For Fundamentals of Drawing they had us sketch things like clothing, cups, bowls, vases, and simple objects in well lit rooms. It was a great way to figure things out. :3

Awwwww doggy

I counter with Kittyface/Night :

[gourmetgelato]

I was just looking up the entrance fee on the Nasher earlier today xD -planning on going there my next Dallas trip. It's so pretty, and they have that kicking rad walk-in sculpture in the back.

Drawing from life helps along improvement as well, there's a big difference in drawing from real subjects and from photos. If you keep a sketchbook just for filling with quick daily doodles of household objects it will help :)

Guh, I've been invited to ADDs last three performances and haven't been able to go to any ): next time I'm up is in March, so going to miss this one too D: . Break a leg!

[sorairo_laina]

MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMOOOOOOOOOOOO XD; I miss your doggies.

Yaaay I've been tagged!

Also. I REALLY love your abstract art. The cactus looks fucking awesome.