Hábito 23

 

Práctica: no dejar de dibujar

 Por continuar dibujando del natural he continuado con dos plantas. 

La primera es una Orquídea y el objetivo era centrarme en contornos utilizando el rotulador. En el segundo, una Peperomia Watermelon,he querido darle un tono al fondo, con rotulador al agua, brush pen que me compré en Barajas; con color pero no demasiado claro y dibujar formas con mi staedtler de 0,4. Lo he terminado con pastel donde daba la luz. 

Realmente me he inspirado en los cuadernos de fondo marrón que permiten potenciar las zonas de luz.

SI NO SE MEJORA ES PORQUE NO SE PRACTICA LO SUFICIENTE.

Dibujar es entender lo que ves

Sigo intentando realizar el dibujo del rostro sin medidas concretas, exclusivamente fijando me en el original. Si que intento comprender dónde está cada elemento y la relación que hay entre ellos. Mi cuestión ahora es ver como consigo la tridimensionalidad. Creo que una pista que me puede ayudar es usar otros tonos o colores. Pero tengo que entender como hacerlos aparecer. Sigo sin entender como actúan esas diferencias tonales en el rostro. Aunque las vea o escuche explicaciones sigo sin entenderlas. Debo encontrar en mi mente el modo en que funciona a base de práctica. Me tengo que olvidar de las lineas y fijarme en la construcción. Entender como opera el volumen. Cuando encuentre el mecanismo será un día maravilloso de despertar. 

Nuevo intento

Just for fun

Eighth Experiment

Seventh experiment, an invention

Brown tones set Lyra

My wooden pastel box

Sixth experiment

Just enjoying

It´s an imitation from Maria Baggetta-

Fifth experiment

Fourth experiment

I am learning from this blog: https://cuadernodeunpastelista.blogspot.com.es

I have tried to learn how to draw trees because I need to master every single part of a landscape: trees, sky, water, etc.

Trees

Third experiment

Experiment two: The Bridge (first attempt)

Experiment one

I used a web page for getting a reference photo : photos4artists.co.uk
This is my outcome:

It was  an experiment really. last day I tried to draw a sunflower and it was a great failure so I have thought that I have to experiment with my draw to distinguish what need to practice. The basics are proportions, shape, values and tonality and colour.

This work shows me that I make certain mistakes such as grounds, values, borders and edges ( perfiles).
My first goal is to work about values and tonalities. I have noticed that I can´t draw trees because I need to distinguish the different values which make real everything rhat you can see in the landscape.

This is the reference photo:

New attempt

 if you want to paint realism well, you have to accept that I think. It’s hard work, and demands a lot of different skills, developed to a high level, working together.

Certainly I am better than I used to be at getting in the right ball park more quickly, though. I think that’s because, with practice, I’m gradually developing more detailed knowledge of my tube pigments and what combinations get me in which area of the colour space. Certainly I’ve picked up a lot of knowledge about value which helps keep me from making basic mistakes.

But look at it like this: Athletes don’t stop training when they get to a certain level of skill and fitness. They continue. Professional musicians don’t stop practising when they reach a particular level of skill and performance. If anything, they practice harder – at least, they do if they want to continue improving.

It’s exactly the same for us. I think it’s an unfortunate hang over of modernism and particularly post-modernism that we can do what we do without having to work – continually work – to develop our skills. We paint realism, and that takes skill, and skill means work and constant practice.

I'm a (mostly) self-taught artist. I paint realism in oils, mostly still life. On this blog, I try to share what knowledge I've gained on my own learning journey in the hope that it might help others who may be struggling with the same things I have.

http://www.learning-to-see.co.uk/the-colour-of-shadows-part-two

Mistakes

I am learning from my mistakes.

Learning