Day Four: Bluhm-ology

Sorry about the delay in the blog posts. I have forgotten my digital camera every morning on the way to the park, usually right after I leave the house, but not early enough to turn around and pick it up. Not that it would have made any difference, since my first picture-worthy drawing at Busch Gardens happened today:


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Pretty much everyone I work / live with here (Joe Bluhm, Dion Socia, and Brooke Howell) have been taking digital pictures of their work to show off at the end of the day. Joe's are by far the best, and usually because he works with natural lighting in the sketches instead of "made up" lighting. This means, for those of you non-caricaturists, that instead of just doing the same peach tones for the face and brown tones for the hair, he'll put in the exact colors he sees based on the given lighting of the subject. Pretty amazing. So I thought I'd try it. The above sketch shows one of my better attempts at this.

Here's an example of made-up lighting from earlier in the day.



Of course it is too much to expect for me to want to draw at the same caliber as someone who is my age but has drawn caricatures for eight more years than me, but I can't help but want to learn from the best.