Day 3: The dim distant past...

Not much drawing today as I have a sick wee dog that needed to go to the vets but, as I said in yesterdays blog, I have raked out a couple of drawings I did about 30 years ago when I had heavy metal hair and the only art I knew was splashed across album covers of bands like Iron Maiden and Judas Priest.

These two drawings are particularly relevant for the next few blogs as I'm planning on using the next few days to start learning (properly this time) the basics of perspective.

You'll quickly see why they are so relevant.

I think this one was called Nuclear Skies or something similar. I have no idea what it was meant to be. I was reading books on Dali and Magritte at the time so maybe surrealism was rubbing off on me :) (or maybe I was drinking too much Vodka and Ginger Beer....)

(Notice the crappy freehand perspective? My hands were pretty good though...)

Next was this one, inspired by too many heavy metal albums covers and posters of the time.

This was called Chained to the Wind (I wrote it on the reverse side). Yes, I was a proper pretentious middle-class arty-farty type back then!

I don't think either of them was ever finished but as they were found tucked away in the inside of my copy of The Guitar Handbook it isn't that much of a mystery as to why.

Again though, this has the same skewed freehand take on perspective as the previous one so they both give me a good negative to refer back to later on in the year. Based on what I've learned from reading about the techniques involved in creating believable perspective I am already spotting more than one or two flaws in these drawings (like I needed a book to tell me!)

Over the next few blogs I'll be showing my practice on perspective and will hopefully also do a proper drawing to demonstrate what I've learned. That won't be until at least Sunday - more likely Monday night. But I'll definitely post the practice work before then.