My Left Eye
My Left Eye
Not quite my left eye… I took a photo for reference and ended up with a fair bit of barrel distortion on one side of the photo. I think when drawing this, I over compensated in trying to correct the barrel distortion. The photographer part of mind was in conflict with the drawing part.
I am not a keen fan of drawing eyes. When doing storyboards or concept art, as you can see in some old storyboard drawings here. I find the moment you start drawing eyes, you start defining the character and I’m not arty enough to go down that path.
One tip that has been engraved in my mind, from yonks ago. Is the whites of the eye are never ever pure white. and if you zoom in, you should just be able to see a fine shade over the eye white. This is the third drawing I have done of part of myself, and over at my other blog, I have stitched the three together as a self portrait WIP which you can see here
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Posted by Chance Date: Thursday, February 4, 2010
Categories: Human Anatomy
Tags: Anatomy, Eye, HB, Head, Self
My Left Ear
My Left Ear
After drawing all the ossicles I thought I would come outside the body for a change and voila! My left ear. Considering it was back in Frebruary I drew my left foot , you can expect an entire self portrait by 2056.
One word of advice to anyone taking a close up picture of their ear, DO NOT USE A REALLY STRONG FLASH!
The drawing itself was done with the usual culprit of pencils, but to note; the skin around the ear I did with a HB and used bluetack to lighten it – a tip I have seen on a couple of websites.
Again, a word of warning about keeping finger grease of the paper, it really can be a pain. If you zoom into the top of the helix you might be able to make out where I have tried to hide it. I’m struggling to do this on an A5 pad and when you look at artists working a lot bigger than I, such as Clive Meredith the mind boggles.
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Posted by Chance Date: Friday, December 11, 2009
Categories: Human Anatomy
Tags: Anatomy, Ear, HB, Head, Self
My Left Foot
As I mentioned in my previous post, hate feet and hate drawing them even more. It is always something I’ve tended to avoid preferring to strategically place things in front or not bothering at all together.
Aside, noticed when beginning to shade that the lines from my skeleton foot sketch were coming through ( must get a decent drawing pad) which could of been almost something interesting.
Quite happy with the sketch, but i dont think the shape / proportion is wrong but i do think the depth of field is out.
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Carrot Hand
Erm one for the bin, Thought i would try doing the mummy sketch on my hand and hoping to get a good effect by using different shades of red. Instead i end up with the “carrot hand!”
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Posted by Chance Date: Thursday, January 22, 2009
Categories: Uncategorized
Tags: Gesture sketch, Hand, Mummy, Self
