Learning from Life...

[andru]

I've been following the progress of MindCandyMan's thread for a while now, and keep promising myself I'll do a similar thing, then never getting round to it.
Well I've finally got my ass into gear and started. I'm not an amazing artist, quite the contrary, i'm a complete amatuer, but I intend to spend a few hours a day sketching (mostly from life) and this thread should be an interesting way to chart my progression.

I also want to experiment with different media once I feel I'm comfortable enough with the ol' pencil and paper, so any suggestions people could give along the way would be great :)

That said, here's a couple've sketches I did today.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.vallance/sketchbook/sketchbook001.jpg
Just a picture of some guys in underwear (o_O) and a drawing of Sophie Ellis Bexter. I got bored with the guys and gave up pretty soon, and I cocked up Sophies left eye, but I didn't dare run it out incase I made it worse...
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.vallance/sketchbook/sketchbook002.jpg
Some sideways bananas, and old mens eyes. I dunno what it is about old people's eyes, but I find them really fascinating.


Unfortunatly I don't have a scanner, so I just have to take photos with my digicam....better than nothing though :P

More tommorrow :)

[andru]

Ok, didn't get a great deal done today. Attempted a self portrait, but it didn't come out very well :( I might try working some more on it tommorrow, but it got to the point where my lack of artistic ability was making me feel like smashing my head against a brick wall. Hard. So I decided it may be in my heads best interest to stop o_O. I also did some sketches of apple cores and a pair of nail clippers I had lying around, but they're on the same sheet as the old mens eyes, so I didn't wanna post it again. Plus they're not that interesting :\

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.vallance/sketchbook/sketchbook004.jpg

[MindCandyMan]

Keep going andru don't stop...don't let yourself go one day without drawing. Keep it up I can see you have inherent talent.

Keep doing self portraits they are fun. I have probably done literally 60 of them and mine still don't look like me and they look awful...but they have gotten better and taught me a lot about drawing/painting/etc... Keep it up man...if you do nothing else do a self portrait everyday!

[mic]

Try to spend more time on your drawings. The self portrait would be the best and easiest to spend the most time on. I've probably spent at least +8 hours on my last self portrait.