I've always wanted to learn how to sketch. Especially realistic faces.
Yesterday, my Sunday school kids thought that my whiteboard masterpiece Barnabas didn't look as warm and friendly as I had intended; the children thought that he was going to be the evil villain (¬_¬)
I bought a sketch pad today and will commit to learning to draw faces.
one suggestion might be start by focusing on the different parts... spend a week on eyes, a week on noses, mouths, etc. then, you can try to look at proportions. the more you practice looking at pictures of faces and reproducing the shapes, proportions, and shading, the better you will get. any and all problems that i run into when trying to draw a face have to do with either inaccurately drawing a certain shape/angle, not carefully measuring the proportions (this is easy with photos because you can just measure by using the eye as a unit of measurement), or not quite getting the shading down right. good luck!
ReplyDeleteHow old are the kids? When I first started drawing lessons on the white board, I got some rather snide remarks from a certain then 4rd or 4th grader. I asked if he would like to come up and see if he could do better. I think he backed down quite quickly when put to the test. Had he not, I would have let him draw the pictures. Most of the time we all laughed at the pictures that didn't turn out exactly the way I intended. Keep practicing. I think kids really do appreciate the effort and interaction.
ReplyDelete(3rd or 4th grader...)
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hahaha is that Ben?? darling :)
ReplyDeletemy kids are in first and second grade (although they've technically graduated to 2nd and 3rd). Even Rachel Fitzhugh (she's my helper) agreed with their impression, so it wasn't a snide but truthful observation :P
Yes, that is Ben. He loved Life!
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