Admin Post: Community Check-In for August 2021
Aug. 31st, 2021 01:43 pm
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.
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Date: 2021-08-31 06:07 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2021-09-01 03:47 pm (UTC)Hindi script calligraphy sounds interesting (as does learning some Sanskrit).
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Date: 2021-09-01 04:57 pm (UTC)I find it fascinating how the basic lettering of different language scripts are exaggerated and stylized when creating fancy calligraphy. ^__^
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Date: 2021-09-01 08:27 pm (UTC)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!
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Date: 2021-09-09 05:23 pm (UTC)