Admin Post: Community Check-In for August 2021

[goss]

Today's the last day of August, and we'd love to have you check in and chat with us. How have things been with you this past month?

Did you sign up for or take part in any fandom activities in August, or have you been working on any personal art projects? Are you currently trying to meet a deadline? Feel free to share upcoming challenges that have got you excited, any frustrations you've been experiencing, possible goals for the next month, and so on. :)

A special welcome to our newest members of the community! \o/ We're always happy to have new members here, and look forward to having you join in our activities when the muse strikes.

Also, a reminder to all our members that the 39th Art Challenge - Face Your Fears - is on right now, and the Round-Up post for this challenge will be made at the end of September.

Comments

[goss]

Er...I haven't really done any artwork this month. /o\

However, I have been learning a bit of Sanskrit and as a result have started getting into Hindi script calligraphy. I am finding it quite fun to come up with my own lettering flourishes as well as the word design itself. So in a way that does count as drawing, I suppose. *g*

Fear Your Fears

As for the "Face Your Fears" challenge, being a perfectionist, my greatest fear/frustration is when my artwork comes out less than perfect, especially in terms of realism. And I think this weakness lies in my sense of proportion, which, from what I understand, is caused in part by my astigmatism.

So for this month ahead, I am going to give myself simple items to look at and draw, with a focus on practicing and correcting proportion in my drawings.

I think my strengths lie in my sense of composition, use of colour and lighting, so those are things that I am not going to put my energies towards. With that in mind, I'm thinking of just limiting my artwork to line drawings for this month, so that I can put my (probably limited) time and effort towards getting the proportions right.

[lomelinde_laurea]

I also find proportions really difficult, that’s something I should practice as well.

Hindi script calligraphy sounds interesting (as does learning some Sanskrit).

[goss]

Hindi script calligraphy sounds interesting

I find it fascinating how the basic lettering of different language scripts are exaggerated and stylized when creating fancy calligraphy. ^__^

[mific]

Your Sanskrit calligraphy is lovely.
Proportions! Sometimes I look at a finished pic and can't understand why I didn't see when drawing it that the person's hands are ridiculously huge, etc!
Do you ever have that problem I've seen some Youtube artists complain about - that when drawing flat on a table the view you see is distorted (foreshortened)? So some of them use an easel. I've taken to using a slanted board at about 45deg from vertical to draw and paint on, although that can make the paint run if it's too wet!

[mekare]

I think going back to something simple will be good for me too. Somehow I don‘t want to draw faces at the moment...