If you have kids try this game that I came up with by accident about 10 years ago: get their yearbook and draw someone, and then give them the drawing and the yearbook and see if they can figure it out. It's a fun game! We were playing last night and even cynical high school kids love it.Even without kids! This is a great game and great as a drawing project.
You just need something to draw. Once, years ago, I came across an ad that had a collection of photos of smiling realtors. I still have those drawings somewhere, but I got really inspired trying to capture what felt to me like the insanity of their smiling. I wrote statements of their inner thoughts, explaining those facial expressions.
So that's a variation of Ryan's game — which I love as a game. Pick a face to draw, exaggerate the expression, and write out an imagined statement that somehow goes with that face. A way to do that with another person is for both to draw the same face and then see how differently you interpreted it.
Another thing I used to do — often with another person — is to watch some TV talking heads show — the news or whatever — and pause the TV on some interesting facial expression and draw the face. Add a snippet of what that face said, and feel free to make it as absurd and out of context as you like. Now, it's timeless art!
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Thanks Althouse! Here is an example from our session last night. I write the name in afterwords.
https://imgur.com/a/EadBf7A
Great idea!
I thought it was great too.
Only if I played it, I'd have to trace more than draw. Some people just ain't got the drawing gene.
Any drawing I made would look like one of those crime witness sketches. :-(
Another example,this one hard mode.
https://imgur.com/a/pOro0mL
Re: bullying, that's up to your parenting skills.
Okay last one, this is from my wife who as you can see is a much better artist than me:
https://imgur.com/a/zT9QVbD
I'm Male, and my kids have all done sports and outdoor activities, of course now we are sheltered at home. Start it by YOU drawing the pictures, and then they will want to try.
Ryan don't demean yourself. You are just more painterly than your wife. I very much liked both of the drawings.
Wilbur: that is an old fallacy. If you can hand write and print legibly you can draw with a high degree of accuracy. Yes some people are naturally good at it but anybody can learn to draw there are lots of helpful rules of thumb literally
Whatever happened to the mouse drawings often found here? Sunrise/set pics are nice but the drawings were interesting as well.
Thanks Howard! Each of those took maybe 5 minutes. I figured out a little trick: very lightly try to sketch an outline of the head and hair, then try to roughly place the eyes, then try to locate where the other features should go in proportion. I'm sure real artists have lots of tricks like this figured out in detail.
"Here is an example from our session last night. I write the name in afterwords."
LOL.
Love it!
Keep it up! More!!
So caricatures are "sadism" now?
"You got a streak of sadism in you, althouse, especially re. looks, and poking fun at other peoples' expressions, verbal, facial and otherwise.."
If you want to learn to draw well, draw a lot. I think it was Divenci v ist the local asylum to deaw the facial expressions of the inmates.
That's very optimistic Howard, but I disagree. I think there should be some talent there to begin with. While I minored in art I never really had the chops to take it to the next level. My daughter however makes a living at it. She's a very good rapid sketch artist. And kudos to you if you can draw.
Water, electricity and gas. Connect each of three houses to the three utilities without crossing any lines.
Rats RC Bellaire, rats.
>> stevew: See how long it's been? Even forgot the species!
There are no stick figures in my yearbooks.
Rusty: Part of my job forced me to become a part-time professional technical draftsman starting in the rapidograph, Mylar, colored pencil days. I apply the same principles of measurement to drawing pictures, which I didn't take up until my early 40's. Also, you know that the great masters used cameras/projections to create their masterpieces. Cheating and stealing are allowed and should be encouraged in art.
What was the name of that cartoon of the talking head shows that Althouse used to link?
I don't think I've seen it since Trump was elected.
Wince, I think Althouse used to draw those herself, if I'm thinking of the same ones you are.
Kids get yearbooks? Still?
Narr
Yuuuge scam, almost as bad as the ring business
Great idea. Wouldn't work for me because everything I draw ends up looking like a mutant cow.
Here's another year-book idea: A few years back when our daughter was in high school, she wanted to look through my year-book and we did that together. We had a lot of fun with her trying to figure out what the kids were like based on their pictures. In particular, she went through and evaluated which of the boys she thought were "hot." I would then tell her if they were considered cute or not at the time. It really was interesting to compare her objective opinion to the opinions of my classmates, since their opinions were heavily influenced by who was cool or not. We both agreed on who was the most beautiful girl (Tina B.)...and then I told my daughter that Tina was liked well-enough but no one ever said she was pretty or asked her out. Such are the strictures of popularity.
howard.
Lols. I took many years of old style drafting. And later CAD. To this day I wow the engineers at drawing complex mechanisms freehand. But life forms? Fugetqaboutit.
Stay safe.
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