Okay, I’ve been practicing a lot of little creatures lately.
But I’ve been putting this creature off:
Hoomans.
My problem is, the ones I draw don’t look like the perfect beautiful ones I want them to look like in picture books.
However, with all these animals I’ve been drawing, I’ve come to a realization: My people don’t look like the perfect beautiful finished people I want them to look like, BECAUSE I’VE NEVER FINISHED THEM!
Gah! I have just given up! I’ve never taken them from sketch to illustration! Sure, I’ve done some paintings, but with strong reliance on reference photos. To just whip up a people doing a people thing for the fun of it? Those I have started, sketched, …and abandoned.
Well, no more. I can see that the sketches of my animals are simply the art skeleton. And that, as I learn, I can polish that skeleton up.
That sounds morbid.
Anyway. I definitely like stylized people best. Ones that relay an emotion in a seemingly careless, but very talented hand (like Diane Goode’s characters, in Ninja Baby written by David Zeltser). While I wait to become very talented, I would love to work on creating simple but expressive characters.
The start:
Now, to dive a little deeper into SVSLearn.com’s class, Introduction to Gesture Drawing.