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As I sat down to dinner, I prayed it wouldn’t hit me while I was with my family—the worst possible place, in my mind.
There are 56 etched and inlaid marble panels telling biblical and mythological stories. They were designed and created by the leading artists of the time, including Pinturicchio (known for his frescos in the Borgia Apartments of the Vatican Museums). You can also measure our the length verses the width of the head as well. Note that to do this properly you will need to find the head drawing that is at eye level. Various angles of a drawing of the head can foreshorten the drawing and make it hard to measure. If you are using a pencil, press lightly and focus more on the overall shape and placement of the feature rather than the details. Eyes can be styled to look like ovals, for now, the nose can be adjusted to just a simple extension of the face. The lips can be simplified as well. We are not looking to draw the final beautiful image – we are simply looking to help our minds in the next stage. That is to say, we are placing down a brief sketch for the eyes, the nose, the lips, and ears, to use as an underdrawing in the next stage of the drawing. I know this looks very much like an early draft, this is because it is. We will draw over it with finer lines in the next step.
If you are wondering what we are doing at this point in the process, I am here to tell you that we are, for now, simply following the Loomis construction of the human head. I recently published an entire tutorial devoted to this type of construction, feel free to refer to it if you need additional instruction. You can find it at this link. Also interspersed through the book are small stories about other people and testimonials from participants in the author’s SketchPoetic community and/or workshops. I found that these parts helped to make the practice seem more real and allowed me to see how pieces of it may fit with my own experiences. It does feel a bit cult-y though, as many standardized/commercialized self-help practices tend to.
When the face is turned in angles you are not familiar with, use reference to understand how hair will sit on the head.Start with the Loomis measurements for the placement of the facial features in your drawing by following this guide. Anime girl study by Gvaat Would I finally cave? Would I give into these five males, taking them all at once? Would I finally lose my virginity, right here, right now in the middle of the forest? Next up, we will draw this Anime girl’s face below, step-by-step, together. Feel free to grab a sheet of paper and pencil and follow along. Step 1: draw a circle This is the step where you must try to draw with swift, beautiful lines. To achieve this, try to put down confident pencil strokes that come from the shoulder and the elbow, and less so from the wrist. The first step is give yourself a break even if it does not come out great the first few times around. A lot can be learned from observing hair in real life. Learn from how the light hits the hair, and how the form is defined, not by individual strands, but by the masses of the hair and their interaction with light.
It arrived in Siena without a right forearm. Legend holds that Donatello may have left it incomplete when he wasn’t paid in full. Or it might have broken off in transit. Recommended for: those looking for permission to reconnect with their inner artist to express things that are hard to put into words; fans of Zentangle looking for a more emotional connection with their meditative drawing practice
You don’t have to be an artist to be a creator. You don’t have to be perfect to create. You don’t have to be fearless to take the leap.” - Sheila Darcey, Sketch By Sketch CW for this book: The author describes memories of domestic violence at the beginning of chapter 4: Sketch Silence. There are other potentially triggering topics discussed throughout the book (e.g. individual experiences with anxiety, PTSD), but not in detail or for extensive lengths of text. This is a book full of inspiration and encouragement to start and sustain a daily art habit by mindfully sketching (and processing) feelings, experiences, and thoughts. It's gently written and I found the exercises very restful. I can certainly understand how creating time to sketch daily would have positive mental (and probably physical) health benefits. Whenever I said this out loud, which I did—often—Selene would shove me gently and just say, “You’re still young, Si. Give it time.” Once you have these measurements, you can compare them to the Loomis method, note the variation and adjust your Loomis head construction accordingly. (In the Loomis method of construction the length from the top of the head to the hairline, from the hairline to the eyebrows and from the eyes brows to the nose, and from the nose to the chin are all about the same.)
The Alpha walked toward the water, ignoring the gaggle of girls following him. He looked like he wanted to be left alone. It made me curious. It made me want to draw him.
Sketch By Sketch is a very accessible introduction to a self-help art therapy practice. Each chapter begins with the author’s personal anecdotes, thoughts, and experiences with the topic of the chapter, like Hope or Silence. There are defined sketching exercises and prompts that provide clear enough guidance to be easily understood without feeling too restrictive or prescriptive about what “should” be drawn. After each sketching exercise, a set of reflection questions invites the reader to analyze their experience. As I began writing this life sketch, I tried to think of some sort of thesis to summarize my father’s life. The majority of my memories with him are not so beautiful or kind. I know that’s not usually what you come to a funeral to hear. Considering I’m only 24, I have only known him for about one-third of his life, and that last third was easily without much grace. Frankly, I cannot stand here and eulogize that he was a “great man” without sullying my integrity. My family has seen him in positions that were far from great — positions that were ugly, painful, enraging, and disturbing. Positions that we tolerated, because we loved him, despite the hurt and betrayal they caused. Positions that many people only experience in movies, that serve only to cause action to rise, and to trigger crises. But if I am blessed with anything, something great, from knowing my dad, it is with the eyes of a realist, to see that peoples’ lives are never merely paintings of puppy dogs and thanksgiving. The ugly, painful, enraging, and disturbing things disrupt our lives to teach us empathy, to teach us how to survive enough to enjoy the multidimensional beauty and greatness that there is to experience. Without a doubt, I wouldn’t want to understand life any other way — to understand that without making waves that ripple into others’ lives, we are as empty as dry lakebeds. I’d always watched him from afar. I’d never been this close. But now I could see how his biceps bulged from his shirt, how his spine curved to accommodate his transformation. The cold wind blew over my fur, the hard ground was moist under my paws, and the scents of the woods filled my nose.
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