Saturday Update Drawing and Knitting

So here is what I have doen with my drawing:

And here is the progress of the knitting:

Sketch for new drawing

I decided to do a dream piece based on an interior of a famous Viennese Cafe, called Central Cafe. I wanted to populate it with famous people, although recognizing the people is much less important than the movement of the eye and the composition (which I am still working on. Here is the draft sketch.


 

Today I changed things a bit, but despite three hours of drawing I don't feel like I came forward very much!

Sorry about the lighting - I used the natural light from the window, but it gets darker the farther away from the window you are! (Imagine that!)

 

 The figures near the front have gotten bigger and I am not having much luck rendering the ones in back in a recognizable fashion, but I am trying to improve the composition.

Weekend of Feb 20

The following images show the development of work this weekend. I'm a bit tired of this topic, but am trying to rethink it one more time.

 

Saturdays' addition: (the faded image on the right is the one above - I have not erased on it, so I think it was the direct lighting on it that made it look softer.

Today I added two more versions, but based on a different photograph.  I think it works, but will be interested to see what my teacher says.

Fox paws so far. Just screwed up and repeted red in the same place as last pattern! ;-(

Fox Paws update

Sunday Drawing Report

So I have art class on Monday and have to do my homework beforehand, so Sundays I will probably always have a  few drawings to post (or more likely changes to old ones based on critiques.)

You may remember this one: (I have toned it up a bit to give it more compositional interest.)





I decided to try and do a more minimal version of it with a few lines to connect less comprehensible areas.

I think I like it.  I also went back to the one of my mother and her sister as children. It is still a work in progress, but I brought it forward a bit.

Personality Tests

Facebook knows we are suckers for those what character are you in Twilight tests that purport to tell us something about our personalities. So I took two today that I thought were pretty good. Of course if you post to Facebook that you took them they put a big add for the test rather than reporting who you are these days, so I thought I would post my results here. (Just for honesty's sake I was Willow in the Buffyverse quiz not long ago - but it asked really obvious questions, like what color is your hair and are you geeky, into killing things or a fashionista - you can kind of guess what character goes with what!)

Anyway, I was happy with the results of my first test which asked about color memory. I've been told they give everybody 100% on these tests, but I guess I still want to believe that I remembered the colors of things in the famous paintings they asked us about.  I love that they use a black and white photo to report to you about your abilities to remember colors!

 

Of course I have no where near a photographic memory, but I think I am pretty good with colors!

The second test should not have surprised me, but it did. We had to answer questions like which way do we cross our legs or our arms and what we saw in pictures.  I consider myself fairly analytical so I was sure I was giving all the left brain scientific-styled answers, but instead I got this.






It is a bit simplistic of course (see I do have that left brain aspect after all!) but I was happy to see that my sense of my own creativity could be reinforced.

Cafe Before the Opera Drawing

Well, I'm back a t work on my recent drawing. I didn't like it so much that I spilled a coke across it as I was bringing it upstairs!

 

I guess I'll try and iron it! 

 

Here is a brighter version - neither are very accurate to the work itself in terms of contrast.