Using Colors! on iphone again, see process here

Coffee break after a midterm intensive day. My pencil sketch of him was much faster and had more likeness, but that’s how we learn right?! Need to train myself to see colours more often.

“So how do you draw if the model keeps moving? Do you just interpolate from the movements in your head?” — Yes… I interpolate your face when I draw. Would you like the formula too?

Another session of Art for Engineers yesterday, still life this time. Talked a bit about symbolism and looked at a couple of still life paintings from fruits, flowers, glassware, and vanitas. Then we were given this box of stuff where we had to choose something oddly shaped, something shiny, something matte, and something transparent to draw. Previous exercises were always 20min ish, this time we were given 20min to plan out the drawing, try a couple of compositions, and spend an hour drawing the final one. My sketch above is once again incomplete because I had to run off to class. I was going to finish it when I got home but screw that… was tired and I’d have to draw in the living room for a big enough surface. Was fun though!

None of the girls who joined later wanted to draw my composition and chose to draw the dude’s next to me. 8′(

I missed last week’s session due to, yet again, midterms. (My midterms are never going to end. 7th one this Friday!) Allegedly it was figure drawing last week, noooooooooo T____T No nakie models though, it was the instructor person. Although if it were naked people (girls) the entire faculty would prob show up, just sayin.

Also interesting to note that yesterday’s session had mostly new faces from the first time I went. Yet each time, most of the crowd is girls. There are guys, and the instructor himself is male, but a good 80-90% of the students are girls. Given engineering’s girl to guy ratio (or lack of?), this is pretty amazing. So engineering girls are more likely to enjoy drawing than engineering guys?

Anyway. I hang these drawings up on my wall because I’ve no place to put them. It’s a shame there’s only 3 more sessions left. I would’ve liked to have a room of drawings. No one would believe I was in Engineering if they walked into my room.

Totoro says one does not simply walk into an Engineering student’s room.

Because I’m Canadian and I’m (almost) an engineer.

My scanner sucks. =| Makes everything so bright and doesn’t let me adjust it. Photoshop saved some of it but still looks better in the sketchbook itself. Bawwwwww adds to long list of “when I have a lot of money and nothing to do with it”…

Been trying to learn how to draw hands. I read somewhere before that it takes 200 drawings to end up with a decent one? I’m about 30 hands in… almost 1/6 of the way LOL.

Something new in Engineering this year is this “Visual Art and Design for Engineers” … club/class/studio sorta thing. Supposed to be “studio art lessons” for Engineers, made free since it’s being paid for by the Engineering Dean or something. Trippy as hell because I’ve had so many Engineering tutorials in that classroom. +_+

There’s been 2 sessions so far but I only went to this week’s due to midterms. It’s pretty much a bit of “lecture” in the beginning and then you have drawing activities. This week’s was a brief history on Renaissance art, and then a bit about composition and -/+ space and whatnot. The activity was to get you to see the shape and different tones by drawing with one tone, then two tones, then full on blending etc. About 20minutes for each. Clearly as you can see! I do not know of single or dual tones! For shame. (I didn’t draw the third full on  blending one coz I had to run to class. ;_;) It was still enjoyable though, been a long time since I had live models to draw from. A bit more challenging than photos because some people just can’t stay still… cough.

As for the instructor/TA person, I missed the first session in which he introduced himself but it sounds like he’s an engineer who’s had a couple of artsy/design jobs. He used to be an armour smith! So cool. I kinda wished it was more studio lesson though, like giving us tips and suggestions while drawing. He just kinda sat there and watched from afar. But I guess that’s expecting too much from a free “art for engineers” club? Nonetheless it was nice seeing other engineers who liked to draw. Didn’t get to make any new friends coz I was in a hurry lol maybe next time. I wanna see if Mechanical Engineers actually draw better than us non-mechies. :P ECE REPRESENTTTT

Okay I’m done rambling. Overall, very nice environment and weekly practice. Wish they had this before I got to my last semester of school.