On My Way Out - weblog of a white belt in The Way of the Indiscreet Mechanical Pencil

A skydive from 16000ft lasts only one minute. In that precious time you can screw up in a hundred different ways. There are a thousand different ways to screw up a drawing in one minute, and this is a catalog of a few. I shall draw you on the beaches, on the landing grounds and on the hills, and I shall never surrender. And you will comment on how "Meh, it's ok but it doesn't really look much like me", 'cause everyone's a critic, goddamit!

Friday, June 20, 2008

vine charcoal + compressed charcoal + charcoal pencil + mirror + weird look on face

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Oh, and by the way...

...this blog is now 3 years old :)

Happy birthday to me...Happy Birthday tooo meeeeeee......

Y.

And you? What of you? You... just cannot be taken seriously! ;)

L.

Loulou had the kind of skin that seems to shine with its own light. An example of the effects of subsurface scattering that are so typical of a certain type of fair french skin and that Bouguereau painted so wonderfuly - a kind of automatic real life photoshop blur+glow arises from all those photons scattering through adjacent spots of skin, capilaries and so on. Sorry Loulou, the drawing was too fast, doesn't look like you at all, but it stays here to remind me that I must one day master those wonderful fancies of light...