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Shell said at 10:21 AM 12-15-2005:
Yes! You need to do more :). |
 | myriam [email] said at 12:42 PM 12-15-2005:
Gotta push myself. |
 | craig [email] said at 10:44 AM 12-15-2005:
Are you taking a class? Or doing open studio? Or is this from your head? |
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| myriam [email] said at 12:25 PM 12-15-2005:
The Museum of Fine Arts here has free open drawing for 3 hours every Wednesday night: the models are clothed, but they rotate around the galleries each week, so the settings can be intriguing, too. (Also, I actually kind of need to work on clothing, so I don't mind the lack of nudity for now.)
Here's the most awesome part: you get into the museum for free, AND they give you supplies! A large clipboard, all the paper you could want, charcoal, pencils, erasers, sharpeners, everything. They even had some conte, although I'd like to bring my own next time. |
 | meredith [email] said at 12:26 PM 12-15-2005:
That sounds so awesome!! |
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| myriam [email] said at 12:39 PM 12-15-2005:
It is... and I have only taken advantage of it the one time, months ago. I suck. There is really no reason for me to hate Boston so much when I'm not getting myself out to do stuff like this. |
 | art [email] said at 12:41 PM 12-15-2005:
Wow - I souhld head down there. Do they teach anything during those sessions?
This is the extent of my figure drawing skills:
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| myriam [email] said at 12:44 PM 12-15-2005:
heh heh heh.
They don't teach, but the coordinator lady is a teacher and if you want help she's very excited to come around and show you a few things. The skill level of attendees varies WIDELY, so there is no shame. It's really a lovely little set-up. I kind of feel like the MFA's permanent collections are pretty boring (or, at least most of what's on display) but the little things they do like this--and that amazing flower thingy in May--really are wonderful. |
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| craig [email] said at 12:48 PM 12-15-2005:
Wow, that sounds pretty cool. |
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| myriam [email] said at 12:50 PM 12-15-2005:
The setting that week was in the Egyptian gallery, so I have a bunch of backdrop sketches of these big standing cast mummy bodies and things. You would have loved it. They give you a stool to sit on, too. |
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| art [email] said at 10:46 AM 12-15-2005:
These are very good |
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| myriam [email] said at 12:31 PM 12-15-2005:
thanks! I was a bit nervous because I really hadn't drawn the human body in about 5 years or so at this point. I mean focused on drawing it (as opposed to a quick, lame sketch of someone on the T). |
 | brad [email] said at 10:56 AM 12-15-2005:
That first pose looks pretty uncomfortable for whoever was doing it. |
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| myriam [email] said at 12:35 PM 12-15-2005:
Yeah. This girl was great. She called her own poses and times and didn't bat an eye for mostly 20 minute poses. Not bad! I talked to her afterwards about possibly modelling myself (supplementary income...) Still debating that one. |
 | zack [email] said at 11:52 AM 12-15-2005:
nice. I like the first one best. |
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| myriam [email] said at 12:30 PM 12-15-2005:
Thanks! Mine too. As you can tell from the last one, faces are definitely my weak point. I can't figure out a good way to attack them. I was doing trying to get her facial features through just marking the shades and shadows, but it didn't come out well... tips are appreciated. |
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| meredith [email] said at 12:32 PM 12-15-2005:
I suck at faces too. I think you did a pretty good job. |
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| meredith [email] said at 12:33 PM 12-15-2005:
Um. I should have said, "I also have a hard time with faces" as that would not have implied that you suck. Which I did not mean to do. |
 | ed [email] said at 12:49 PM 12-15-2005:
FACE-SUCKER! |
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| craig [email] said at 12:51 PM 12-15-2005:
It's always great practice to draw from life period. It doesn't matter if the models are clothed or not unless you wanted to focus hardcore on the human figure. I admire your determination to get out and do the free drawing sessions.
The drawings you were doing in your notebook at the Frank Lloyd Wright Architecture school were pretty awesome, too. |
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| myriam [email] said at 1:05 PM 12-15-2005:
Thanks! I reworked a couple of them a bit more. I agree about drawing from life. It is easy to get trapped in the mundanity of daily existence and stop forcing yourself to draw, so I think this MFA thing could be a good little weekly refresher for me. There are only so many things I can sketch on the T to work and back before I simply lose all motivation to do that. I'm not sure there's a good fix for it except to push myself to do things like go to new places, do the MFA thing, convince a friend to sit for me, something like that.
I'm also thinking of buying a book for faces, perhaps. I've become accustomed to thinking of the human body as yet another structure (anatomically) and drawing it from that point of view; I need to shake myself out of the architectural way of percieving the world, a bit.
On the other hand, I need to practice perspective a bit too, I'm getting rusty. |
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| craig [email] said at 1:09 PM 12-15-2005:
I hate perspective. It's much too rigid for me, and as much as I do like architecture, I cannot make myself attempt to render it in a way that makes sense.
I like more organic forms, and if I ever attemp architecture, would design buildings that only a being such a cthulhu would deign to live in... |
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| myriam [email] said at 4:24 PM 12-15-2005:
This is awesome, and precisely why I like you so much.
Which reminds me, I have another postcard for you. |
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| craig [email] said at 12:58 PM 12-15-2005:
I am taking a week off from work right after Christmas during which I am about to subject myself to drawing 'boot camp' which will involve me just pure freeform or automatic drawing. I need to get reacquainted with drawing shapes and forms and not concentrating so much on details, so much that I often get lost in them. |
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| myriam [email] said at 1:14 PM 12-15-2005:
Drawing boot camp sounds like an excellent idea. What do you mean by freeform and automatic drawing? By automatic, is that when you don't look down at the paper? |
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| craig [email] said at 4:20 PM 12-15-2005:
You can look at the paper, but you just draw on the paper without overall or conscious concern about what you are drawing.
Here is the official entry in the Wikipedia. |
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| myriam [email] said at 4:24 PM 12-15-2005:
oh, COOL! I need to try that! Good, excitement is a great motivator, thanks |
 | kevin [email] said at 1:21 PM 12-15-2005:
rock on! keep going. |
 | jeremy [email] said at 1:24 PM 12-15-2005:
I call the first one 'poised for a piledriver' |
atchafalaya said at 4:21 PM 12-15-2005:
haha |
 | milky [email] said at 3:42 PM 12-15-2005:
sweet, myriam! |
 | john [email] said at 7:57 PM 12-15-2005:
Myriam these are amazing! When are you going to draw me? |
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| myriam [email] said at 10:40 PM 12-15-2005:
When I get a commission for a portrait! ;) |
 | kaycee [email] said at 8:39 PM 12-15-2005:
wow miriam, you really do need to do more of that! you are really good! and i should know... i spent 4 years as a model at LSU and some of the things those kids didto my body were cruel and unusual! |
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| myriam [email] said at 10:38 PM 12-15-2005:
ha ha! awww!
well, I am always looking for subjects.
also, I worked for awhile as moderator/pose-caller in the art dept. at school, and I was amazed by a lot of what i saw from the art students... I don't think drawing was really emphasized at the art school where I went. on the other hand, we in the architecture dept. benefitted from 3 intense semesters with an AMAZING art instructor. hooray! |
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| myriam [email] said at 10:39 PM 12-15-2005:
Curiously the only B's i got in high school were all in art, ha ha ha
they later fired that teacher. |
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| myriam [email] said at 10:40 PM 12-15-2005:
Thanks guys, wow, I kind of thought these were crummy, I've been sitting on them for months kind of afraid to put them up because of all the real artists on here. Thanks for the encouragement! |
 | jess [email] said at 10:47 PM 12-15-2005:
These are good! I'm really proud of you for posting them. |
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