I have a long way to go in drawing hands. The hands in the previous post were next to impossible for me to draw. So today's photo assignment got me thinking maybe instead of practicing bananas I should be practicing hands, since they do come up as subject matter more often than bananas. At least they do in my life.
The assignment was to use bounced light and to " dress up your hand" - since I really feel it is chocolate not diamonds that is a girl's best friend, I dressed up my ring finger with a nice dark chocolate kiss.
I did have to go into iphoto and adjust the exposure on this - haven't learned to do it successfully on the camera yet.n My "light bouncer" is a pad of watercolor paper that I opened and sat on the table by my north-facing window which is currently facing a rain cloud.
Now my personal challenge of drawing same ... all I can say is ... needs practice!
My assignment for the Silly Photo class was to create a backlit series of photos. But I found inspiration for drawing in one of the photos and tried to capture Gabby's hands and Lauren's expression.
I tried to create a grayscale to take photos of my pencil drawings, but still had exposure problems. But then I did find the brightness button on my scanner which really helped.
Just try taking 300 photos and deleting 299! It was fairly easy to get it down to 15. And even down to 10. When I had 5 photos left, mostly of cats and orchids, I put it in Mike's hands and let him choose. He picked this one. I guess it pretty much captures Snicks and her attitude about the couch. But I do feel the need to post my favorite as well since it would be a better reference for drawing her eyes.
