Full of life and very fun to look at!!
Nice Derek!! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif
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Full of life and very fun to look at!!
Nice Derek!! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif
Hello and thanks all.
The drawing was done from a pencil drawing produced some years ago, one of a number of people in pubs. The persons name was Ron and would talk to anybody, even if it meant buying them a pint to keep them there. The bar was in the basement of a hotel in the city centre and was lined with books, prints and plants, though it was a little dark for plants, but the gloom helped cover the peeling wallpaper and chipped paint.
The plant in the foreground, left, was to cover up that his jacket had gone wrong and I couldn’t be bothered to redo it. The plant at the back was inserted as I wanted to add many more plants and birds and turn it into Henri Rouseau’s local.(If you don’t know Henri Rouseau he painted all those wonderful dream like jungle pictures without ever going further than the Paris Botanical Gardens). However, as I hadn’t worked on more than one layer, putting added plant life in became a problem, so that might have to wait for another time.
derek
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Derek,
This is so much fun to look at! Love the expression on his face, too. Looks like an interesting person to talk with.
ron
Nice to see you again Derek. Terrific image. I would love to sit down and have a pint or two and hear what he has to say.
Gary
Really like your style as always. Like most people we have had the pleasure to sit beside men like that and pass the time of day with him.
I wish I could develop a style, but I always end up copying my photos or looking at something else and developing that. I will need to spend more time with a pensil rather than the mouse. I will repeat again what a great characture Derek, well done you have made me think!
albacore
I think that turning the computer off, or at least going away from it is the best way to develop ideas. Sitting with a pencil and paper and scribing ideas down is so much quicker and allows you to run through ideas. It doesn’t matter if you can draw or not it’s just the free flow of ideas that for me at least doesn’t happen when sitting in front of a monitor gazing at the screen saver. I like to go for a walk and as soon as I’m out ideas begin to flow and if they are worth it I can scribble them down when I get back.
Alternatively just sitting drawing objects in what ever room you’re in can spark interesting ideas or just produce compositions from the everyday objects you can translate into illustrations on the dreaded PC.
What I often ask myself after producing a drawing on a bit of paper is why bother then re-doing it on the computer spending hours trying to reproduce what you already have. I scan a drawing and work from that as I don’t have a graphics tablet that works, but often I just leave them as drawings in a book, I don’t think we need to digitise everything.
As long as you are enjoying yourself, that's the important thing.
derek