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100 Heads Challenge Day 3!
Jan. 25th, 2019 10:59 pmWorking through the 100 Heads Challenge with my day 3 submission: kids edition.
Imma be real a minute, y'all. I don't get kids. I am happily childfree by choice and my reproductive clock apparently arrived with a defective battery because I am 33 years of age and I have never longed for the pitter-patter of little footsteps. My own childhood was fine! Parents were great! I've got a niece and a nephew who are both beautiful and brilliant individuals, raised with expert love by my very own sister. But for me, personally, it's not my jam.
And this exercise didn't help with that. Kids are both kinda boring and kinda tricky to draw. They're boring because up until puberty, it turns out that kids just kind of look like... well... kids! Similar eye shapes, similar proportions to the features--and I tried really hard to source a really diverse range of ethnicities for the kids I drew today. They're tricky, though, because you have to be so delicate with the shading. The more lines and shadows you add, the more they age a face. And when you're trying to represent a chubby-cheeked prepubescent youth, you definitely don't want any prematurely aging shadows!
That said, I think I do understand why people who like drawing kids do like it. It's nice to just kind of ease into a general face shape and arrangement of features and then subtly manipulate them to make them unique and give them personality. For me, though, I think I'll mostly continue to stick with grownups!
So here's my contribution. Click to enlarge:
Imma be real a minute, y'all. I don't get kids. I am happily childfree by choice and my reproductive clock apparently arrived with a defective battery because I am 33 years of age and I have never longed for the pitter-patter of little footsteps. My own childhood was fine! Parents were great! I've got a niece and a nephew who are both beautiful and brilliant individuals, raised with expert love by my very own sister. But for me, personally, it's not my jam.
And this exercise didn't help with that. Kids are both kinda boring and kinda tricky to draw. They're boring because up until puberty, it turns out that kids just kind of look like... well... kids! Similar eye shapes, similar proportions to the features--and I tried really hard to source a really diverse range of ethnicities for the kids I drew today. They're tricky, though, because you have to be so delicate with the shading. The more lines and shadows you add, the more they age a face. And when you're trying to represent a chubby-cheeked prepubescent youth, you definitely don't want any prematurely aging shadows!
That said, I think I do understand why people who like drawing kids do like it. It's nice to just kind of ease into a general face shape and arrangement of features and then subtly manipulate them to make them unique and give them personality. For me, though, I think I'll mostly continue to stick with grownups!
So here's my contribution. Click to enlarge:
