Kittyspam and drawings

[telophase]

Got a new toy - a puffball on a spring.


And achieved a Sanzo glare. XD




She really prefers to lay on her side and play with it that way, being a LAZY-ASS KITTY, but she occasionally plays with it in an upright position:




After exerting herself for approximately two and a half minutes, she now takes a well-earned snooze to recover.




I finally got off my ass and started soemthing I'd been wanting to do - go through a magazine (last month's Vanity Fair for those keeping score) and draw all the hands. Well, I'm not drawing all the hands, but the three hours total of drawing (would be more except I watch TV while doing it and keep getting distracted by the Mythbusters and whoever else is on) have produced the proof that yes, as long as I'm looking at soemthing else and they're not attached to anything, I can usually draw hands.

The problem comes, of course, when I'm trying to figure out how they should go *and* have them the right size and shape for whoever they're supposed to be attached to.

Comments

[tentopet.livejournal.com]

Heh, sometimes when I'm having a hard time drawing a hand connected to a body, I'll draw it off to the side until it looks good, then move/shrink/rotate it to fit back on that arm. Dunno if you sketch by hand (I guess most people do) but I don't! So this is why I use techniques such as these that would make people curse at me if they only knew how un-artistic it all is ;)

I have a moveable mirror attached to my desk, and use myself for hand and face refs. Of course, my hands are slightly retarded because I've got crazy thick skin, AND as a lefty who curves my hand around it's hard for me to draw a righty who's writing or something, but ah well, we all have our limitations.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I usually sketch by hand, but my scanner was falling apart on my when I started Project Blue Rose, so I did that entirely digitally. And now I'm way too used to being able to scribble a rough, slap a layer on top and refine, slap another layer on top and refine 5 or 6 times until I have something I like (or at least can live with). XD

I've got a 3-foot tall skeleton on my desk, and when I remember to I use it for reference, but for some reason although it's less than 2 foot from me, I hardly ever remember that it's there. :/

[homasse.livejournal.com]

...if I ever seriously start drawing, I am so gonna have to look into doing shit digitially because OMG timesaver. After I get detail with faces down, trying to learn how to do all this comic-type stuff is next, because it just seems *cool*.

Although, given how much time I spend glued to my computer *now*, maaaaaaaaaaaaaybe that's not such a good idea. ^^;;;

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah. I'm a messy sketcher, and discovering that I could draw, scan it and reprint in blue, the refine on that, and do it all over again until the final drawing was done was amazing.

And now that I've done a ton of roughs and sketching on the computer itself - much less of a hassle than even scanning in. XD I think I may end up doing most of my sketching on the computer, even for the pencil pieces - I can print them out, then use the lightbox to transfer the lines of the sketch to the good paper, then shade from there.