verbal roost
I’m not sure what it is about it but I find it very difficult to translate his works onto my paper. Everything is so soft, there are seemingly no hard lines and it all blends together beautifully.
When I tried to draw their face the first time I tried drawing it larger, perhaps in an attempt to gather more detail. I felt like I just couldn’t grasp any of the facial features, their size, the position relative to the other features, and felt awfully frustrated. So I decided to try drawing it smaller as I usually have more success in that area and I felt I was able to grasp the face better. Maybe that is a mistake because if I don’t persevere I won’t get over the hump of struggling to draw larger.
I find it much easier to recreate the face at a smaller scale compared to a large scale drawing. I suppose when it’s smaller your eye can forgive the inaccuracies and let some things slide.
Is it a fools errand to try to draw from a painting? The medium is so different, the pencil creates harder more defined lines where the painting is so much more delicate and it all blends together. Should I just jump to painting if I want to learn from the paintings? I know the basis of a good painting is the drawing beneath it though, or at the very least, the idea of the drawing beneath it.
Should I switch to charcoal instead of pencil? I feel I have less control when I use it and I don’t really care of how messy it is, but I do want to improve, so maybe I’ll just have to get over it.
I haven’t had luck finding a kind of lesson book/other media breaking down Bouchers work, at least in a kind of how to draw setting. They’re moreso focused on composition.
Thank you.
past bear
