Taken me awhile to get through the next portions of the drawing books since I have started another challenge for the summer. I am reading Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. John Green mentioned it in a Blogtv chat and I jumped on board since I loved the www.amazon.com http:>Infinite Jest is a 1000 page fiction book that put at its most simply demostrates the mind of a genius at work. DFW's prose and linguistic abilities are beyond those of many scholars. The book is jumbled in sections that suck you in so much that his page long descriptions of moments that last only seconds have you rereading and marveling at the slight nuance of word choice. The book will take years and possibly 4-6 readings to truly glean all of DFW's intentions. For now im reading it with a group of others at www.infinitesummer.org. Should be a great summer and the schedule has it taking till Sept. 21st to finish. I emplore you to join me in a journey of mental excercise. 
  On to the drawing. I mentioned las time that I was looking forward to this section about negative spaces. Its really amazing when you look around and rather than seeing the objects you view the spaces between objects instead.

Really hard to explain but imagine it this way. You are standing at the end of a long hall way looking at a closed door. Now bugs bunny runs down the hall and smashed through the door leaving a bugs bunny shaped hole in the door. Now drawing this you can look at the spaces between the ears or the distance from the edge of the foot the the floor. Looking only at the outline of bugs bunny and spaces created to the edges of the door or  hallway. Once you get it the drawings are priceless. I loved doing these and really felt a shift in my mind when I was creating. I drew one and thought is turned out ok. Since it took a short time and I love doing it I then decided to try another style. I turned the chair upside down and propped it up against the wall. Both drawings were great and turned out fairly realistic. Remember you are just drawing the shapes not the detail of the objects. I shaded them both opposite so you can sorta get the feeling.

  Next was the perspective drawings. Its a weird thing when you look into the corner or a room and realize the lines are not horizontal when drawn on your paper. Definately got me to use all the previous skills i have learned with paying attention to edges and negative spaces as well as angles relative to the edge of my picture. This was a workout for my mind and not too joyful. I didn't find much fun in this drawing and you can see I sorta slacked on the details at the end cause I was tired of the picture. I guess something about drawing the corner of my living room was not that wonderful to me. I included an old picture I had of that corner. Its a bit different in my drawing with the chair sitting different and I was at a different angle than the photo. (The drawing is hard to see since the lighting was weird when I photographed the drawing paper.) Good experience but not as enjoyable as the past learning or whats coming next.
   I am totally excited for the next chapter which I have already started reading. Portrait drawing. I have always loved drawing(Attempting to draw) womens faces out of magazines etc. I have a few that I really like from the past. I have learned some new proportion measurements and interesting stuff about portraits already. Im gonna get to that over the next week or so depending on how deep I get into Infinite Jest.  Thanks so much for reading and please visit my advertisers if you enjoy my content.