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Feb. 9th, 2002 12:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rowynI refined the picture that I linked to several days ago--mostly trying to smooth out his features, and adding a little detail on his clothng, and a background.
The background was interesting to do. Okay, so it's just three bamboo stalks and some leaves. It took me longer to decide what to use for a background than it did to actually draw the one I decided on.
I tried to model the look of the bamboo after Chinese-style ink paintings of the same. Back in college, I took a class in Chinese calligraphy, which included a few lessons on the brush strokes used for making bamboo stalks and leaves. The technique is simple--not easy, but simple.
In fact, it's a style of art almost opposite to my own. I usually take a drawing and keep working at it over and over again until I give up on it and declare it done. The bamboo paintings are a collection of fairly swiftly-made brush strokes, and if you botch any of them, then you either start working on a new picture or cope with the fact that this one isn't going to come out right.
The look doesn't really lend itself to pencils. I tried darkening the bamboo stalks, the way they would be with ink, but I didn't like the result, so I stuck with the outlines instead.
That's all I have to say about that.
The background was interesting to do. Okay, so it's just three bamboo stalks and some leaves. It took me longer to decide what to use for a background than it did to actually draw the one I decided on.
I tried to model the look of the bamboo after Chinese-style ink paintings of the same. Back in college, I took a class in Chinese calligraphy, which included a few lessons on the brush strokes used for making bamboo stalks and leaves. The technique is simple--not easy, but simple.
In fact, it's a style of art almost opposite to my own. I usually take a drawing and keep working at it over and over again until I give up on it and declare it done. The bamboo paintings are a collection of fairly swiftly-made brush strokes, and if you botch any of them, then you either start working on a new picture or cope with the fact that this one isn't going to come out right.
The look doesn't really lend itself to pencils. I tried darkening the bamboo stalks, the way they would be with ink, but I didn't like the result, so I stuck with the outlines instead.
That's all I have to say about that.
