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Working 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:
Re: sketching
Date: 2019-01-26 10:32 pm (UTC)From:Exactly! I love my job, but at least once a day, I find myself thinking, "Why would you even do that?" Why are there half a dozen toothpicks in the sink? Why did you think it would be interesting to pour half a bottle of liquid soap onto the floor? Why aren't you wearing a coat when it's only two degrees Fahrenheit outside?!
The thing I dislike about them the most is their inability to just wait for ten seconds. Whatever they want, they want now, with no awareness that they're interrupting other people.
But there's also something incredibly satisfying about teaching a kid how to do something and having it click. The moment they actually get it, I'm like, "Yes!" (But I'm still happy to give them back to their parents at the end of the hour.)