Curt & Jeanne
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I'm not sure how you refine your sketch from a live model. I have some gesture drawings but once I am back at home I do not have that bird available. I assume you also take a photograph when you are in the field so you have a reference when you go to refine? Because even a lot of notes won't help me with shadows and tiny details unless I am one heck of a note taker.
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This was fun. I think the bird turned out really good and I promise I didn't turn it till the end.
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I had forgotten that proportion trick. I know I used it a long time ago. Thanks for refreshing my memory.
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I don't really see the point of blind contour. I think you can just do contour, not raising your pencil, but glancing down at your drawing occasionally to keep yourself centered and still strengthen your eye hand connection. Here is my newt blind and with glances. I like not raising the pencil and even just continuing into the interior of the subject.
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Two orchids , one tiny , one very large. Leaves the same on both. Though the flowers differ in size their structure is very similar with larger "elephant ear" petals and tiny beards at the end of the front of the flower. I need to pay more attention to note-taking.
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A small container and two odd rocks. The first rock had some odd dimples and depressions, the smaller rock had some fossil impressions which I found difficult to express on paper. Hmm, should have done the shadow on the container..
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1. I tended to draw from the photo as if I was drawing from real life, that is, I did it quickly. I tried to get everything down on paper in just a few minutes. And with a warbler even a few seconds can be too long. Looking backat some of the other responses I could have spent all day. Of course that is the beauty of drawing from a photo, you have all the time in the world. 2. I really didn't concentrate on other things in the photo except the branch because I felt it was necessary to add it in order to get the correct angle on the legs.
I loved some of the extremely detailed and finished journals in the video, like the woman who did a sketch a day. The birds especially looked to have been drawn from photographs or worked on later from detailed notes. The colors and detail were so exact.
Two orchids , one tiny , one very large. Leaves the same on both. Though the flowers differ in size their structure is very similar with larger "elephant ear" petals and tiny beards at the end of the front of the flower. I need to pay more attention to note-taking. 
A small container and two odd rocks. The first rock had some odd dimples and depressions, the smaller rock had some fossil impressions which I found difficult to express on paper. Hmm, should have done the shadow on the container.. 
at some of the other responses I could have spent all day. Of course that is the beauty of drawing from a photo, you have all the time in the world. 2. I really didn't concentrate on other things in the photo except the branch because I felt it was necessary to add it in order to get the correct angle on the legs.
I loved some of the extremely detailed and finished journals in the video, like the woman who did a sketch a day. The birds especially looked to have been drawn from photographs or worked on later from detailed notes. The colors and detail were so exact. Viewing 7 posts - 1 through 7 (of 7 total)