I can’t draw. I mean I can technically make marks on a page, but I really hate the resulting marks.
I have been out on my balcony this evening, working on my drawings (read: doodles) of me and wee-one. I have the hardest time trying to capture her “little girl” features. She keeps looking more adult.
I really don’t want any part of that Medieval “a child is a simply a scaled down adult” aesthetic. You know the paintings… the ones where the baby Jesus is being held by Mary but he looks like a tiny man. I would welcome any tips on how to avoid making wee-one look like an woman-baby.
I have to admit I have not had the energy necessary to create stuff. I have been very, very, very tired and instead of making stuff I have been dreaming up projects and then watching really lousy summer television programs. What have you been up to?
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I know the feeling well. Me – I’m happily installed in a new job (for the summer, at least) and I’m enjoying the novelty of a regular work day vs the strange wandering that I fell into during the 2nd year of grad school.
But I’m making the time to play my guitar and to at least write down the working titles of films I could write and research if I could get my act together. It’s almost like making things….
Children have different facial/bodily proportions to adults – I had a quick look for something to explain it better than I can, and this looked helpful for the face part:
http://drawsketch.about.com/library/bl_drawing-children.htm
I won’t try & hand out advice though, I can’t draw either…:-)
Even as a fan of religious art, I have to admit that I too hate the ‘baby Jesus looks like a mini adult’ style. I absolutely SUCK at drawing anything realistic and I have been sucked into Tell Me You Love Me on On Demand.