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Saturday, November 11, 2006
Friday, November 10, 2006
Gracie produces me
It started out that Gracie saw me using the graphics tablet to draw something and she wanted to "color" too. So I let her play around in Photoshop a little with the stylus. Then she asked me to draw Dragon Tales, this show she watched on PBS this morning that I personally believe came from the belly of my personal demon, Lakov Imaginicus. Due to these dearly held views, I do not know the characters' names nor do I intend to learn them. I just know it's a bunch of dumb dragons who are either too sweet or too simple for my superb taste. All this aside, I want to keep intact Gracie's notion that I can draw anything, so the first two below illustrate my attempts.
First, Gracie asked me to draw some infernal creature whose name escapes me. It sounded from the name like a large dragon, so I started in the T-Rex theme and added spikes and fire breath for dragony-ness.
Gracie was delighted with the drawing, but unfortunately, not delighted to no end, since she next asked me to draw some other something from -- what was the name of the show again, and is it really considered educational television?? This time, I struggled a little more, and tried to make something from Land Before Time except ferocious-looking, thusly the jagged teeth. She said it looked like Charlie, the alligator from the insanely cute show Maisy Mouse (google it). I was not offended, since the teeth are somewhat 'gator-y, and besides, I didn't know the thing I was drawing in the first place.
I thought she was growing disinterested when she asked me to erase Charlie and draw a picture of herself, Gracie. This subject, I knew what she looked like, but decided to draw a kitty cat instead just to get her reaction.
Gracie said, "It's me as a kitty for Halloween! Now draw me in my Clifford the Big Red Dog costume!
This Clifford drawing didn't come as quickly as the cat, since I wanted the drawing to actually resemble what she looked like in the costume. Also, she was sitting next to me and bumping my elbow. I did finish in a decent amount of time and with a decent amount of likeness. We both were satisfied with it I can assume, since she now hopped off the couch and plopped herself in her blue plush Tigger chair to catch the end of Sesame Street.
First, Gracie asked me to draw some infernal creature whose name escapes me. It sounded from the name like a large dragon, so I started in the T-Rex theme and added spikes and fire breath for dragony-ness.
Gracie was delighted with the drawing, but unfortunately, not delighted to no end, since she next asked me to draw some other something from -- what was the name of the show again, and is it really considered educational television?? This time, I struggled a little more, and tried to make something from Land Before Time except ferocious-looking, thusly the jagged teeth. She said it looked like Charlie, the alligator from the insanely cute show Maisy Mouse (google it). I was not offended, since the teeth are somewhat 'gator-y, and besides, I didn't know the thing I was drawing in the first place.
I thought she was growing disinterested when she asked me to erase Charlie and draw a picture of herself, Gracie. This subject, I knew what she looked like, but decided to draw a kitty cat instead just to get her reaction.
Gracie said, "It's me as a kitty for Halloween! Now draw me in my Clifford the Big Red Dog costume!
This Clifford drawing didn't come as quickly as the cat, since I wanted the drawing to actually resemble what she looked like in the costume. Also, she was sitting next to me and bumping my elbow. I did finish in a decent amount of time and with a decent amount of likeness. We both were satisfied with it I can assume, since she now hopped off the couch and plopped herself in her blue plush Tigger chair to catch the end of Sesame Street.
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