Yep, I’m great at resolutions
Monday, January 15th, 2007
“I will post 2-3 times a week!” I said. “I will sketch a lot!” I said.
Then I went a week without doing either. Nice work, self.
But tonight I’m doing both, plus putting in some work on “Blue Lucy,” one of two major projects I’m working on right now. (The other is the super-secret project from a few months back which I can finally reveal: an anniversary gift for my parents in the form of a drawing of them from their wedding. Their anniversary was at the end of November. The drawing remains unfinished. I am a terrible daughter.)
The sketch really isn’t anything special. I warmed up by doing an absolutely awful blind contour of my hand in the same position, then moved on to a regular drawing. The proportions look a little funky and the foreshortening in the fingers is off (hence the “awkward” caption), but on the whole it’s not too bad. Then I doodled the red-orange border and realized only too late that it makes the whole thing vaguely reminiscent of a communist propaganda poster. But maybe that’s just me.
And then I did some work on my Lucy painting. It’s progressing slowly, but so far I’m satisfied with how it’s turning out. As you can probably tell, I work mostly color by color and progress from big shapes to details. I’d like to have both this and the drawing done by the end of the month, but realistically, it’s one or the other–and I should probably try to finish that drawing first.
(Click either image to see it larger.)
