Drawing: Human

Had been working on the flash for my jimui's wedding. I have not been touching macromedia flash after graduated from uni. Therefore, I was abit worried about it. I can't even remember how to use the keyframe when I first trying out after 2 years. Luckily, I am still young and can learn in faster pace. However due to the time constraint, I decided to make an easy one. An easy one means without much animation. I planned to make a touching story or some sort like that. However, the stupid computer suddenly crashed down and my jimui told me that the studio offered her to include her childhood montage in her wedding photos flash/slides. As a result, I stopped doing it for her. Feeling relieved *phew* but a bit sian-sian at the same time. It could be the greatest gift for her, u know? hee...

Erm...ya, that's how and why I suddenly want to polish up my drawing skill. I very much interested in doing animation. To do so, I must learn to draw so that I can produce something original. To do animation, one must be creative, talented in drawing and patient. Creative, well, that is what lack of in me and I decided not to take Multimedia as my major in uni. Though I am not gifted with talent in drawing, I am insterested to draw nice arts through practising it. Patient, believe it or not: a minute animation can take up a day or even more to be completed. It is tough!

So, the first lesson I had is "drawing human".

I tried to figure out how does the artist make their drawings look like real. Normally my drawing is rough and only presentable as draft. How do they make it like a photo? hMmMmMm...while trying to figure out, my first piece of art entitled "Her face" was completed. For comparison purpose, I also SHOW OFF my previous art work on human. Hee...


After drawing "Her Face", I learn how to smooth the drawing using smudge feature which is available in GIMP or Photoshop. By the way, was using GIMP to draw "Her face". Am trying to avoid from using Photoshop, need to get used to the OPEN SOURCE/FREEWARE world.
The next title of the art would be "Cartoon Girl". My drawings always turn out to be cartoon-like. So, I decided to try to draw a cartoon instead. The original picture is like this:


And my cartoon girl:


Description: She is running towards papa when papa back home from work. =)
I am quite satiSfied with my cartoon work. Though in the original pic, the girl is chasing a burtterfly. 'X'
Anyway, Since I have improved alot already, so I continued with the last piece of art: My Friend. I took up the challenge to draw a real person based on the photo. So, I chose to draw a friend of mine when she had her pretty shaped hair during CNY. However, I can't reveal her photo here.


And the completion of the 3 art works has marked the end of my first drawing lesson using GIMP.

Hopefully I can draw something like the girls on the chinese book cover on day.