five

after Dreamweaver's reflecting

original: http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=50862

copy: http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=73856

Chinky

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=15910
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=73900

palmasbob's ICE SKATER...

maddyjean08

Oh, the ice skater is beautiful! And that cat, whatever he sees in the mirror, he's dreaming about!!

Normal

This is probably the most intereting Challenge to watch that I've seen since joinging TD in August. Still not for the faint of heart (me!)
Don't understand how you can have the original where you can see it while operating in DRAW. That said, I have to go address Christmas cards!

five

:) ... Normal, you just open two windows to think draw, one to the original, and one to "draw"

Doug

I also think this is the greatest challenge I have seen since joining ThinkDraw. It is just amazing to see the work involved and the differences in using a different medium to copy the original. As I don't do copies (not enough talent I'll admit) I will just sit back and appreciate all this beauty. This should be a permanent thread in the community forum. No, not the Challenge which I know is continuing, but the copy idea. Its brilliant!

Login

Maybe Q has started a trend, Doug ... who knows?

Normal, click on a drawing that you feel you could copy (in a differnt category) and click the 'print' button under the picture. Then the world is your oyster.

Login

I should never have started this ... 'just couldn't reproduce the pazazz that marg gave him.

marg's original - 'the maestro':
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=28889

My lacklustre copy:
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=73960

Heidi2323

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=73980 My version

Heidi2323

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=71853 The wonderful original

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=73980 My version

It was a lot of fun trying to draw a similar picture. Although the end result is quite different, the process was a lot of fun!

Heidi2323

OOPS! ARW65, you rock!!!!

Qsilv

...ALL you folks rock! ; >

Here's a little story about this "copying" thing.

When I was a youngster, art teachers in school were death on copying, or, for that matter, coloring within the lines. It was all about "freedom of expression", and "originality".

Paradoxically, they forced us into a sort of slave-hood of abstract expressionism.

I actually had a teacher who said he'd rip up any pictures of puppies or kittens we did in class... and "Portraits?? Where are THOSE at?!", spat he, in awful tones.
(I, never having been all that meek, suggested from my lofty world awareness that portraits were exactly where they'd been since cave days... central to human culture and people respecting and loving each other... pff... he had the most interesting little blood vessel up there in his temple, that would pulsate 'til I sometimes wondered if it really could burst........)

But most kids go through a stage where they are sorting out symbology from absolute representation... it sorta coincides with or generally follows after that infamous Latency Period, if you want to get deep.

Me, I just always wanted to make stuff look "right"... screw symbolism!

So I "cheated".

I took tracing paper and photographs, held 'em up against my bedroom window, and painstakingly worked out where the lines really needed to go.

This was almost always different from where I'd GUESSED they should go... it was quite an education.

I wasn't quite bright enough to figure out the next step on my own, but I got lucky. I had an aunt who was calm, loving, sensible --and a remarkably fine sculptor. She taught me two things about art (and several more about life, but those are different stories).

1. There are an infinite number of greens in the world... just LOOK at a hillside in springtime!

2. There's sometimes more power to leaving a line OUT, than to putting it in... so each viewer's imagination gets to fill it in, in the most effective way for his/her own satisfaction.

; >

five

What horrible teacher would not let youngsters draw kittens and puppies? My few art teachers (I did not take a lot of art classes as a kid) focused on the exactitude of drawings/paintings -- the more the drawing looked exactly like what it was a drawing of the better the drawing -- and on coloring/staying between the lines to the exclusion of everything else. I remember learning two point perspective in art class and drawing lots and lots of boxes and thinking the boxes really don't slant that way, not to my eye; drawings adhering strictly to the perspective lines just looked plain wrong to me (worse when you add in non cubic shaped objects!) I usually fudged my boxes to look and feel "right" to me.

Qsilv

Have you ever noticed that kids will rebel against whichEVER side their saddled?

*winks

Qsilv

- their + they're ...it's late. And I wish we had an Edit feature... ; p

Chinky

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=57221
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=73992

Inked_Gemini's Daydreamer.

Heidi2323

I think the copying done in art school is to teach you to render. While rendering is lovely, it does not teach one to create or think on your own. Some people can render, but not come up with an original idea. There is strength in color, line, composition and a number of other expressive elements which is why we all gravitate to certain types of work. Thank goodness there are so many people who let their hands create the world as they see it.

I am glad my junior high school teacher taught me the proper way to draw an eye. I never took art classes again until college. It was not how I saw and to this day see the world. I guess I never wanted to do things the proper way...

As for the puppies, kittens and wide eyed children, they are fun to draw but often the AAAWWWWWW factor masks what is often a wonderful work of art. In art school you learn to see and get beyond the cute.

Maybe that could be a challenge. Puppies and kittens. Lets show those teachers what it is all about.

Whew, I am finished with my spewing for the day. Have a lovely day.

marg

Qsilv..

I hope you don't mind me adding this one - it honestly started out as a copy (of a copy), but then developed a life of it's own.. but It only took as long as the original (i.e. not very), so it is a true copy in some ways..
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=73995
Login's pic:
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=73960

marg

(the first arm was the copy - but white on black .. then it seemed to push me into changing it !)

midnightpoet

Matthew's Original:
http://thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=9125
And my lame copy, in candy:
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=74001