Don't ask me what's compelling me to right is particular Blog entry, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say it has something to do with all of the muscule relaxers I've taken and the slight fever I have from sleeping on ice packs for the past 2 days.
I've always been a more observant person, I'd rather watch a group of people play video games than be one of the people playing while someone else watches, it's often how things go when people come over to my house. I'll tell them they have to play this game and then force them to do so and I'm a perfectly happy little camper watching. I frequently go to coffe shops, parks, and malls just to watch people and draw them (I'm creepy like that) I even have friends who will invite me to their dance classes just so I can draw them, cause they know that it's something I'd enjoy. (also refure the the blog entery about Agoraphobia).
It's been a proven fact that when people first start drawing and creating characters they tend to look like the person who is doing the drawing. Maybe not exactly but they will always share traits. Because it's familuar to us and well we have our own personal reference right there. For me alot of my character turn up being Blonde or with some form of dyed hair with the bangs being a different color. I tend to cover one eye with hair and more often then not the hair is short in the back than it is in the front. I've had this hair style for years and I love it! (though i often have to cut it myself cause some hairdressers fuck it up) And It translates into my drawings. People also tend to draw things the like in other people. I draw curly, thick hair like there is no tomorrow. I love it! When you have very thin straight as a board hiar like I do there is just something magical and whimsical about curly hair. I also tend to color it in very dark tones. Dark reds and blacks. Brown is to in the middle lol. I also tend to pay special attention to wrists, hips, and legs on my charaters. Thin wrists, pretty hips, and long legs. These are all things I like about myself and I like in other people.
Fun fact: I'm in a categoery of people who have longer legs than the average person, my thighs alone are longer than the length of my torso. I also have a very short torso and am only 7 heads high instead of the ordinary 7 1/2
And my drawings tend to reflect that with the exception of rare ocurancy. And those drive me bannana's cause It always looks like their legs are too short o.o
My woman tend to have hourglass figures (just like me!) with small waists and breast and hips that are equal in size. Sometimes some pears get in there (hips are important!!!) and I find it expecially difficulat for myself to draw ruler, apple, and upsider down pear body types for women. They just don't look right to me. For men it tends to be the typical heroic underside down triangle. I think I'm supconsiously looking for a guy who is "heroic" persay and not a total twat-waffle. (can't you see i hold sooooo much stock in men? lol XD that and well my guy friends are my heroes basicly) Everyonce in a while some squares sneak in there (puddgy love handles are cute :3 ).
But mostly I find it hard to devert from these body types because one of the main differences between males and females (besides genitals) is that woman's butts extend past the top of their backs and men's backs extend past their bottoms. That was one of the main discoveries that helped me start drawing men. That and Men have harder angles while woman have rounder ones.
But more than just the people looking like use you can see moods in drawings. Even if the drawing it's self is supposed to be dark but the colors you use are more viberent then you obviously weren't in as dark of a mood as say if it was all in grey washes of those colors, you can also see it in subject matter and brush stokes.
For example when I had my fun cancer times and I lost over 30 pounds within the span of only a few months. I started drawing really boney people. People that you could litterally sit there and count the ribs one. You could see hips, knee joints, spines. All that fun stuff, it was alot more subtile than things I had drawn before where there was skin pealing off of left arms with broken bones inside (I've broken that arm so many times that all the nerves got twisted up and there not much feeling in that arm, I used to be completely ambidextrous) Because with something like that you can hide your ribs under clothing and it was mostly something that I was dealing with solely on my own. Most of these drawings like this that fill up a couple of sketch books also have no faces. There are drawings that you can obviously tell that I wasn't in a good place and the subject matter tells you that I was sick at that time.
I've only gained back 5lbs since then and I do still draw boney people but not with the same attitude, these people are drawn more happier obviously. :3 My sketchbooks are filled with alot happier things since then. Well maybe not seemingly happier, but with happier intentions. You can't always see it in the subject matter persay. I've always drawn goreier things in my sketchbooks, which I sure can trace back to something like my love of old school horror movies or things like that. But the point I'm getting at is, sure you can tell alot about a person just by the way they carry themselves, but seeing their sketch book it like reading their diary there is SOOOOOOO much more information.
Seriously sometimes I really just want to steal people's sketchbooks and go through them so I can figure things out. o.o Probably why I like DA cause it's like sharing your sketchbook, maybe not to most secretive parts of it cause those only come out in horrid little doodles at 3 am and then you ask yourself why you drew this? But still small portions.
Ok it's food time for Katah... I need pancakes. Tata
I'm not even sure how much sense this blog made... Oh well once again I blame the medicine!!!!
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