See, I've always leaned towards drawing video games or comics or whatever bullshit. But that isn't real anatomy to me. And in my studies the past few months, it's been pressing harder and harder for me to just bite the bullet and practice drawing people. Real people; not no cheatin video game characters with noses that look like this:
Drawing shit like that is just not going to do any potential artist any good. So. It was back to basics for this mug.
Oh, right! You're wondering "but you said it started on accident...what accident?"
Well, I was watching 300 some boring evening, and I must've been inspired by something because as soon as I saw a good frame, I paused it and started sketching. I don't know what came over me. Bravery perhaps? Over-confidence maybe? Regardless, it started something wonderful. Because I had planned on it being terrible. But, yet again, I surprised myself and figured, "Why not keep going?"
Luckily for me, I have an obsessive problem with saving pictures to my hard drive under a folder titled "References." And I had just the stuff to practice with. He's a photographer by the name of Danny Santos [http://www.dannyst.com/]. What better material than to use these stunning people for still life models?
Ok, enough talking! Here they are.
It's not much to look at, but it's the one that started it all:
A ridiculously cool asian dude:
And this absolutely STUNNING girl [first one from the top] who I in NO way did any justice; fucking noses. Yeah, this piece taught me about a dozen different lessons in one. First, and most important, don't. fuck. up. anything. Haha, seriously. You mess up any one facial feature and there goes all of that person's likeness. But that's what practicing is for. I'll hit that again later when I'm more skilled. Don't worry, pretty anonymous chica, I'll fix you up next time:
This asian chick is super cute. And those glasses were a blast to draw...although halfway through I wanted to stab myself in the eyeballs with my Pitt pen. Just goes to show - perseverance is everything:
Ahh, this guy! He had the most unique facial structure I've ever seen [I might be bad at drawing portraits, but he really did have an interesting face. It wasn't all me!]. He struck me as Native American. A very earthy look to him. Definitely enjoyed this one...save the right eye being a little crooked:
It was also during this piece that I really hedged out a style for myself in which I feel comfortable and happy. Based on the comments the waiter at IHOP gave me, it's a deviated form of stipling. I can see that. It's working quite well for me. So, alas, we have zombie Jesus in all his glory [pun intended]...and I think he's one of the best I've done so far:
Now, I wanted to continue drawing through Danny Santos' work. But I was possessed one night while watching Prince of Persia and needed to draw Gemma Arterton. The one I'm showing you, however, is the revised version. The one I drew during the movie - and I swear this was an experiment in artistic boundaries - was a drunk drawing. And it turns out that I'm at least 7...maybe 8x better sober. I give you...the sober one:
Anyone here familiar with Danny Luvisi? Adonihs? This guy? Well, I was up late and needed to pick someone to draw. Who but Danny was on Facebook chat at 4:30am [my time]? Popped in to ask him who and he suggested Daniel Day Lewis. Specifically from Gangs of New York. Googled that shit and BOOM... badass was born:
This is the Natalie Portman I mentioned one post ago. The Daniel Day Lewis drawing and this one completely killed a brand new Pitt pen. Whether it had ink left or not is up for debate, but the nib was condemned to like...the 4th level of hell or something. Shit was completely rubbed raw. And it was well worth it to crank this one out. It took about 4 hours at IHOP, good conversation with a fellow artist [whom I will convince to start a blog with me], and a full pot of coffee:
Everything after this was uploaded in the post below. From here on, I'll be keeping up with my 30in30challenge and adding in whatever little shits I do in between.
Alright, time to get crack-a-lackin, I gotta do another Natalie. ...hahaha, do another Natalie...if only that was true in a literal sense.
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