06-19-2011, 07:09 PM
Andrew, thank you. always appreciate you following along and commenting on my threads.
Reinhard, back in junior high and high school, I took mechanical and architectural drawing classes and always liked it. Was pretty decent at it too - so on the technical aspects, I knew it wouldn't be a problem. The trees had me worried though. But they turned out to be easy. Yes, there was a learning curve, but fairly quickly it becomes routine, knowing what results to expect from various techniques.
Now, the real art is concerned with shadow and light, as was espoused by biL. Those two things (which are really opposite ends of the same thing) are what makes a technically compotent drawing/painting become a believable representation of reality. Not saying I have mastered this, but I do feel I am getting there.
Reinhard, back in junior high and high school, I took mechanical and architectural drawing classes and always liked it. Was pretty decent at it too - so on the technical aspects, I knew it wouldn't be a problem. The trees had me worried though. But they turned out to be easy. Yes, there was a learning curve, but fairly quickly it becomes routine, knowing what results to expect from various techniques.
Now, the real art is concerned with shadow and light, as was espoused by biL. Those two things (which are really opposite ends of the same thing) are what makes a technically compotent drawing/painting become a believable representation of reality. Not saying I have mastered this, but I do feel I am getting there.