Somehow just before I hopped into bed (or sofa) last night I suddenly found some excitement in going to school today. Probably hoping that being surrounded with classmates would give me more drive to do what I had to do. The first half of the day was sketching class and the sensei started off with the usual croquis. In his attempt to jerk the class back into focus he reduced the time from the usual 4-5minutes to 2min30sec and made some classmates do some radical poses in a bid to spark our interest perhaps.
I think the 1 minute speed drawings on posemaniacs.com has quite helped to imprint through my thick skull how fast I have to draw and which details are more crucial to be drawn in and others to be left out within a certain amount of time. I guess when you've worked at 1 minute 4~5 minutes seems like pssh. Most of all, it helped me keep my fingers and brain on the go cos one thing I realised about drawing is that its like a clock that resets itself to zero when you sleep and when you start a new day anything could happen. So doing croquis everyday and not just once a day but a few times at least would I guess keep your brain from forgetting the feeling of sensing the lines and perspective.
Anyway, at the second half of the class, the sensei asked us to form groups and draw our friends' faces, each facing front, left and right. And then he showed us how to express lighting. He even did one where the light source came from the bottom, and if you can imagine, sort of turns a person's face slightly scary, as though they had some evil intention or telling a ghost story.
Some pictures I took from my current croquis books:
(In class today) Sensei helped me do the one above, where the lighting is from the bottom. Kinda hiliarious.
(Second half of school today) What happens when you can't find someone to draw for croquis...
(During winter break) Those 1 minute things on posemaniac.. give it a go.
(Winter break) Did some hands too... basically anything see in front of you can be done for croquis.
(1/5 After New Year Party) Courtesy of Changyang. Tired junior from the hostel I used to stay at who volunteered to pose.
I think the 1 minute speed drawings on posemaniacs.com has quite helped to imprint through my thick skull how fast I have to draw and which details are more crucial to be drawn in and others to be left out within a certain amount of time. I guess when you've worked at 1 minute 4~5 minutes seems like pssh. Most of all, it helped me keep my fingers and brain on the go cos one thing I realised about drawing is that its like a clock that resets itself to zero when you sleep and when you start a new day anything could happen. So doing croquis everyday and not just once a day but a few times at least would I guess keep your brain from forgetting the feeling of sensing the lines and perspective.
Anyway, at the second half of the class, the sensei asked us to form groups and draw our friends' faces, each facing front, left and right. And then he showed us how to express lighting. He even did one where the light source came from the bottom, and if you can imagine, sort of turns a person's face slightly scary, as though they had some evil intention or telling a ghost story.
Some pictures I took from my current croquis books:
(In class today) Sensei helped me do the one above, where the lighting is from the bottom. Kinda hiliarious. (Second half of school today) What happens when you can't find someone to draw for croquis...(During winter break) Those 1 minute things on posemaniac.. give it a go.
(Winter break) Did some hands too... basically anything see in front of you can be done for croquis.
(1/5 After New Year Party) Courtesy of Changyang. Tired junior from the hostel I used to stay at who volunteered to pose. 
(1/5 After New Year Party wee hours of the night) Courtesy of Monica and Mita. Had no space on my book..
That's it for now.. I know I will regret posting these up some day though.
posted by Chua at 10:53 PM
2 Comments:
chua i love the pictures (: take careeee.
CHUUUAAAAAAAAA (: (: (:
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