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This inquiry blog focusses on drawing animals and place. Though creation of the two drawings I struggled with finding guiding questions to guide my journey of being interested in learning/improving digital drawing. As well as recognizing overuse of detail (and time), then promptly forgetting about it…

Doodles

Oh dear, the dear deer;

To expand my skills I challenged myself to draw animals. Which is difficult to get accurate as the human brain expects certain things and can tell when something is not quite accurate. I often struggle with adding too much detail (something I did not resolve with the next drawing). Simple yet effective is hard to do, but is important to go back to the basics and understand each of the lines.

While drawing I figured out how to re-size images, used a few layers (one per colour), and solidified my awareness of having zombie fingers. The drawing process was relatively simple (though around the chin was more complex), however, I think a lighter base colour for the fur.

KWATSECH Park (Glencoe Cove) South Beach;

While taking photos it was a little chilly, but the lighting was quite nice, almost golden hour, but with the cool reflecting light from the snow. I noticed that the colours both popped and were soft, and I was drawn to the different layers and contrasts. I did momentarily lose track of where my mum went for a moment, I was taking pictures and she disappeared, and then the camera ran out of battery. In my moment of solitude it was peaceful hearing the ocean waves and the rustling of the leaves, though the wind was harsh once I stepped out of the bushed path’s protection. Evidentially I need to check battery power before leaving the house and get one of those toddler leashes.

I used many different layers, and throughout the process combining them and using various different brushes. Though at some point through the process I did seem to loose the branches on the right side of the image. I also learned that using two fingers to move the image resulted in less accidental marks.

This drawing took absolutely forever to do, and the more I worked the larger the file got, which lead to it becoming slow and quickly draining my computer battery. However, the amount of detail is quite nice; clearly, a balance between too big and effective detail is needed.

This park was once the site of a village, which was home to the Lekwungen peoples. The Lekwungen eventually became known as the Songhees and spoke the Northern Straits language, a linguistic division of the Salish language family. The name “KWATSECH” is the Songhees name for Gordon Head.

District of Saanich; Glencoe-Cove-Kwatsech-Park.pdf

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