Face Anatomy

This is just an exercise I did last night to lean the shape of the face and the different planes of the face. Both are very rough sketches, as they are more for the purpose of learning than for the purpose of looking nice.
They were very interesting to do and I really like the raw look of them and I did learn a lot, I am eager to apply what I have learned to my next project.


This one was done with the help of a tutorial by 87tors

This one was by Paul Abrams and there was a part 2 to it HERE.

Trying out different things on one drawn face.

Basically what I am doing with my drawing at the moment is playing, trying out new things and having some fun. Not everything works out the way I want but I am not to disappointed with the results because I am leaning new stuff all the time.

We did an exercise in measuring a face and drawing it in my drawing class, so I took that and applied it to a picture to see how I would do.

This is a sim character from a friend of mine, Nellas. He has an interesting face with an anime look to him, so I thought I would make him my subject.

I got a picture of Aoi.

The next step was to measure him up and get a pencil sketch going.

Not totally accurate but I was pleased with the result. The next thing I thought I would do is ink in the drawing and see what that would look like.

 

He turned out quite nice but very stark without shading. I was going to do some graphite pencil shading, but I found a tutorial on colored pencils and thought this would be a great picture to practice on. 

 

I found the pencils less dificult than I thought and really had fun with the blending and shading, the face has about five to six different colors in it to make up the skin tones. I was really pleased with the final result. The final picture look a little different because it was scanned and not photographed.

 

So thanks again to Nellas for her lovely character, Aoi, he was a lot of fun to draw.

Drawings that I have been doing.

Here are just some of the drawings that I have done in the last few weeks. Nothing special, just practicing and getting my eye in, trying different things and having some fun.

A Mark Crilley tutorial, which you can find here HERE.

One of the characters from my sim game, Jay Condiment.

A Mark Crilley tutorial, which you can find HERE.

A Mark Crilley tutorial. Which you can find  HERE.

A perspective exercise from my drawing class.

 A fish I drew from a photograph.

Another character from my sim game, Pepper Condiment.

Wolf Finished

Well as finished as he will be. I am pleased with the final result of this and it was a lot of fun and really encouraging as a first project, which worked way better than I could have hoped for.

Mine looks more like a malamute I think.
If you want to see the original tutorial by Mark Crilley, you can find it HERE.

The Thermomix Is Here!!!

Winnie has wanted one of these appliances for a while. A customer of his give him a demo about a year ago and he was very impressed. There was a stall at the Mt Barker show and when he saw it he dragged me along to have a look. We booked a demo and as of last Tuesday we are now the proud owners of a new Thermomix.
Is it worth it? Yes, for us I say it is, with our style of cooking and all that it can do we will definitely get our moneys worth out of it. I would suggest to anyone who likes kitchen gadgets, who likes the idea of milling their own grain, making their own caster sugar and icing sugar. It chops, kneads, cooks, blends, all sorts of wonderful things.
It would be a great way to set up a kitchen if you are just starting out, or like us, have old appliances that needed replacing all at once.
We haven't stopped using it yet and pretty much make every meal in it.

Thermomix

Easter Already!

This year already seems to be zipping by. Summer has not been kind to the garden but it's survived despite the baking conditions and looks quite good at the moment as it heads towards winter.
After the loss of our little cat, Kitty, last March, we have been having an outdoor rodent problem. Our existing elderly cat is too old to be bothered. This means we had not strawberries over summer, each and every one of them was taken but rats or mice. I have recently seen a naughbour's cat in our garden and we have had a few strawberries ripen, so I am hoping this cat keeps visiting our garden at night.
I am in a bit of a dilemma about getting another cat for outside. First we do not want to upset our dear old girl, she deserves a nice quiet life as she gets on towards 19, and also we have has a colony of blue wrens in the garden, as well as a number of other birds that we have not seen here before. If the rodent problem persists I might have to get some traps.

Work is going well. Both Winnie and I are getting fitter and it's nice to have some money coming in. I don't much like folding the catalogs but delivering them is fun. I have good wet weather gear and new boots to keep the wet out, so I am set for winter.

Big projects for this year will be to finish the drainage around the back of the house, get a winter garden going and finish off house renovations.