After doing drawing exercises on texture, I felt inspired to draw, just for drawing. My daughter and her cousin both have a “Kaloo”, a brand teddy bear that has a long hat that can be used for sucking. Alice has two since she was a baby. She had three but lost one. Her cousin had three or four. So while they were preoccupied I grabbed one of each of their kaloos, a car for the cousin, Antoine (he’s mad into cars) and a flower that Alice picked when we went for a walk. I thought it was a nice, simple composition, and it came out very well.
(More drawings after the jump…)
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There is simply something cool about having a hobby that requires you to use tools and to take care of those tools. I know roleplaying has ten-side dice and big fancy cool books, but it’s just not the same. I understand now how fishing can be enjoyable without actually catching anything. I found myself getting all “geeked-out” while lining up my drawing pencils and sharpening them just right; the point has to be sharp, but a long bit of the lead has to be exposed too. (Pictures and more after the jump) .
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For a long time I’ve considered removing the bits and pieces of drawings I’ve upload to this website. I put them up here, less as a show case for my talents, but more as a place to manage, archive and possible share them.
I don’t really consider myself an artist and I’ve allow my skills and little talent to languish for a long time. Sometimes I pick up some pencils and draw (such as scenes of Chargey, a holiday home we go to in the summer), but I never produce anything in my opinion of quality.
This morning, I check my blog and find this “lovely” comment on an image I did quite a while back:
“This was plagiarized from a 1 19th century etching. You’re a hack.”
He’s right about one thing. I did “copy” the image of the Jabberwocky (off the wonderful classic John Tennial Alice in Wonderland illustrations). I did a whole rack of “copies” (and original stuff) based on Alice in Wonderland as decorations for my wedding, oh so long ago.
I never thought that anyone would take my drawings seriously enough to accuse me of a plagiarism! I’ve since updated any other “copies” that I’ve done with a note about the original work in case that I potentially get accused of being a plagiarist again. I don’t make money of these images.
It just drove home that perhaps it’s time to cut the images from my website. They only get hits from trolls and wandering surfers. They don’t increase traffic or readership of my website. To those who read my blog, do you want to see my artistic “hacks”?
