Second sketch for the Ganesh painting, which I’ve been slowly working on over the past few weeks. I traced the major features and reworked a lot of the details, especially the hands, fabric, lotus pedestal, and flames.
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This is a sketch of Ganesh based on a dream I had years ago that will become a painting and eventually a tattoo for my left arm. It has a great deal of meaning to me, and I’m very excited to see it finally taking form.
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Talent is overrated, and placing all the emphasis on this one minor factor tells people that if they don’t have “talent”, that if it doesn’t come out perfect the first time with little to no effort, that you’re just doomed to mediocrity, so why try at all? Art is for those with “talent”. I call bullshit. Creating art is for those with enough passion for it to do all the hard work that it takes to build the skills you need to be able to make tangible what you see in your head.
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This day I focused more on roughly sketching figures and faces to practice proportion and placement. The bellydancer, musician, and girl with skateboard are all old prompts from a daily drawing group. The Wolverine was from a still of Hugh Jackman. I’m feeling a bit frustrated right now with my inability to render some details.
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This is another prompt from a daily drawing group on Facebook, but this time I attempted hatch shading. Human faces are terribly hard for me. It’s not at all accurate to the reference. I also tilted the image slightly and lost the feeling that she is leaning forward, and had more than a little trouble
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Graphite pencil HB, B, 2B, 4B in my sketchbook, ~4 hours of work. The drawing is based on a photo of silent film actress Betty Blythe.
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For my emotional wellbeing, I need to reclaim art as an active part of my life, and to do that I need to rebuild my fundamental skills, which are really suffering after six years of almost no fine art (drawing/painting). Rebuilding fundamentals requires sketches and studies, a practice I attempted to start months ago, and
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I need to get back in practice, and need something portable, so this is the first sketch of many I’m drawing in a tiny sketchbook that fits in my purse.
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Continued work on the Triskittehs Celtic mandala.
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Originally posted April 15, 2013.
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