now THAT was a productive weekend
Sep. 20th, 2004 03:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
joflasherOkay, not really
This weekend will forever be known as the weekend Jo forced herself to learn to draw hot anime guys!
Wait, that's not quite how it happened.
This weekend will forever be known as the weekend Jo spent 5 HOURS trying to draw one pretty faced, skinny wretch with wings.
Yep, that sounds more like it.
I've never been good at drawing men. Never. Women are nice and curvey and, as long as the curves are in vaguely the right places, come out looking nice with little effort from me. Men, on the other hand, are HARD. Angles and bumps and weird muscles everywhere. Ack. I have to concentrate to draw men. I have to think. I have to have references and grids and large amounts of caffiene.
On top of that is the fact that I suck at drawing anime. Love the art form. Can't do it myself to save my skin. They always look deformed when I draw them. Of course, you can argue that anime is deformed as a matter of course but mine look deformed even by those standards. But I've decided ... I must learn how to draw anime men for YaoiCon. It just wouldn't be right otherwise.
...
Of course, it didn't help that my approach to doing anime was to draw a "normal" body and then try to warp it to the correct proportions. Lets just say there are easier ways to skin a cat than with a broken spork and leave it at that.
This weekend will forever be known as the weekend Jo forced herself to learn to draw hot anime guys!
Wait, that's not quite how it happened.
This weekend will forever be known as the weekend Jo spent 5 HOURS trying to draw one pretty faced, skinny wretch with wings.
Yep, that sounds more like it.
I've never been good at drawing men. Never. Women are nice and curvey and, as long as the curves are in vaguely the right places, come out looking nice with little effort from me. Men, on the other hand, are HARD. Angles and bumps and weird muscles everywhere. Ack. I have to concentrate to draw men. I have to think. I have to have references and grids and large amounts of caffiene.
On top of that is the fact that I suck at drawing anime. Love the art form. Can't do it myself to save my skin. They always look deformed when I draw them. Of course, you can argue that anime is deformed as a matter of course but mine look deformed even by those standards. But I've decided ... I must learn how to draw anime men for YaoiCon. It just wouldn't be right otherwise.
...
Of course, it didn't help that my approach to doing anime was to draw a "normal" body and then try to warp it to the correct proportions. Lets just say there are easier ways to skin a cat than with a broken spork and leave it at that.
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Date: 2004-09-20 12:20 pm (UTC)is this going to be your next painting?
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Date: 2004-09-20 12:35 pm (UTC)but I must paint pretty boys first
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Date: 2004-09-20 04:08 pm (UTC)Most anime boys are literally indistinguishable from anime girls in full clothing in shoujo. It can take half a dozen volumes of manga or so before you know whether a character is male.
You generally determine sex by identifying the costume and then just knowing the sex of the character who wears the costume.
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Date: 2004-09-21 05:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-21 07:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-20 12:42 pm (UTC):)
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Date: 2004-09-20 04:01 pm (UTC)Good luck...
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Date: 2004-09-20 08:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-21 05:41 am (UTC)