I'm bored, here's a drawing

[ghostsofgiants]

It's the first drawing in the lovely sketchbook that Heidi and Call Me Wesley gave me for my birthday. :)

(The head seems a little small, but whatever.)

[Shine]

1. Cool!

How sweet that they sent you a bd gift!

Jeez, they didn't sent anything to ME, for MY birthday......! :cry: Boo hoo.



;)


:hi:

[El Fuego]

2. You have a blank expression.

But that's really cool.

[Shine]

4. I assume you meant to reply to primate1, not me.

otherwise, you kind of freaked me out, cuz I'm balancing my check register right now, and I DO have a "blank expression" on my face! heheheh.

LOL. :rofl:


:hi:

[El Fuego]

19. Sorry! Yet another DU faux pas....

[Shine]

25. No biggie.

:hi:

[ghostsofgiants]

11. Haha...

:P

Thank you.

[djeseru]

3. I like that.

I didn't see any problems with the head...unless I'm the one with visual issues! Please stick with it - we'd love to see more! :)

Oh, and if Heidi and Call Me Wesley remember, my birthday is in June and I was shopping for pastels. ;)

[Call Me Wesley]

7. I let Heidi know,

she's in charge of pastels and artist supplies in general. :)

[djeseru]

13. lol!

I favor the Rembrandt ones. ;)

No, seriously guys, I'd rather see everybody else's work out here, especially yours and Heidi's - that means more to me, and gives me a bigger push to get back into sketching and producing work again than anything else has in years.

[Call Me Wesley]

Rembrandt's available here. ;)

And I thank you for the huge compliment, however it has to be only Heidi. I don't do anything ...

[djeseru]

22. Sorry. Photoshops count.

:P

And Heidi's work never fails to blow me away.

I know, I know - some days I'm just more talkative than others. :silly:

[Call Me Wesley]

24. Thank you!

I actually want to start to sketch a bit more, or whatever I can achieve. :P

[ghostsofgiants]

10. Thanks.

:)

[Call Me Wesley]

5. Makes me wish I could draw anything.

You like the paper in it? I noticed that I have to be really careful about what pens I use ... :(

:thumbsup:

[ghostsofgiants]

8. Yeah, the paper is great. Nice and heavy.

The only pen that will even touch mine is the one I wrote my address in it with, haha.

[riona]

6. there is the one arm issue...

[ghostsofgiants]

9. The guy has no face and you're concerned about his arm?

:P

(The other arm is supposed to be hidden by the body.)

[riona]

16. i think it's dislocated

:cry:

[REDKING]

12. Do you animate at all ...

Your lines seem very graphic,like comic cartoons.

[ghostsofgiants]

14. Nope, just draw.

That's just my style, I guess.

[REDKING]

15. It just reminds me of someone thats all..

The way you draw that is.Partial to charcoal drawing myself.

[Ava]

17. awesome!

the shading is really good. you are very talented. i paint, but i can't draw worth a damn.

[ghostsofgiants]

18. Thank you!

I've been easing my way into painting. Got an easel and canvases and stuff for Christmas. Just need to actually start using them, haha.

[Ava]

20. well, it's a LOT easier than drawing

lol.

i won our city art contest a few years back and since then i've been hooked on painting. :)

[ghostsofgiants]

21. Neat.

What do you use? Oil? Acrylics?

[Ava]

23. oil

my mom bought me an easil for christmas a few years back with a really nice set of paints and brushes.

[Heidi]

26. Love it!

I had no idea you cold draw so well, p1! :thumbsup:

And guess what? I got _myself_ a little moleskine journal just like yours and Call Me Wesley's. :bounce: I haven't used it yet, though. It's so pretty without my chickenscratch in it. :blush:

[ghostsofgiants]

29. Haha, took me a while to gather the courage to draw in it.

When I drew the first line I thought "oh shit, what have I done?!" :P

And thank you. :) I don't draw nearly enough as I should though. My old sketchbook sat dormant forw months with just two drawings in it, then my brother wasted cranberry juice on it. Ruined most of the pages, and rendered it almost useless, haha.

I'm sure I'll gather the courage to draw more stuff in it eventually.

[Heidi]

34. Do you ever paint on canvas?

It's not so much a problem now as it used to be when my work didn't pay for the materials, but I still occasionally just feel completely intimidated by a wide, white, gessoed field of canvas or paper. :cry: I think you may have a better, more artist-like vibe going on than when I did was so worried about "wasting" art supplies. Geez, it was like "screen freeze" or something.

Right now, I have a 160 x 100 cm Talens canvas sitting in a storage room, pristine and still encased in plastic, because I don't have any place to work on it until my new studio is finished. It's a really good feeling to have already made sketches and color studies for use of that canvas, instead of having it just _stare_ at me and intimidate me. (This huge, gallery-wrap canvas was a birthday gift from Call Me Wesley's sister and her partner. What a huge, humbling gift. :blush:)

Get crackin' in that journal, JK. I have, in reserve, a beautiful Monet watercolor journal for you. But I'm not gonna send it until you're nearing the end of your Moleskine journal. So _there_. (Do you have watercolors?)

[ghostsofgiants]

35. Haha, I have three unused canvases sitting behind me now.

Again, just need the courage. (And some ideas, haha.)

I've never tried watercolours, no.

[cleofus1]

27. hey that's nice

reminds me of the illustrations from the little prince...very delicate...a gentle feel to this particular sketch

[ghostsofgiants]

30. Thanks.

I'm not familiar with The Little Prince, though.

[wildhorses]

28. looks good...don't be so hard on yourself

[ghostsofgiants]

31. Thank you.

:)

[bridgit]

32. i like it, clean lines, proper shading, naturalistic stance...

:-)

[ghostsofgiants]

33. Thanks!

[tigereye]

36. nice!

[ghostsofgiants]

37. Thanks!