I’m tired, a wee bit cranky and up way later than I ought to be. I didn’t feel up to muddling my way through rectangles tonight, so I tried a different shape- the merciless hexagon.
Hexagons are tough to draw, but oddly inspiring!
Surprisingly, I had a good time with this; if I hadn’t been so tired, I might have kept going on to another page. And I’ve no idea why hexagons are so hard for me to draw, they just are.
So now that I’ve gotten that out of my system, I can get back to this headshape thing. Not that I’ve really decided on any sort of rules for it, but I guess I’ll just try to come up with stuff. Since I’ve become a bit stymied by squares, I guess I’ll move on to rectangles:
Rectangles, it seems, are ^somehow a bit
dullermore challenging than squares…
Hmm. This isn’t quite as much fun as I thought it might be, though the three on the bottom (which I did last) were the result of stretching my way of thinking, which is, of course, the purpose of this exercise- I find myself working mostly with straight lines when I’m doing these heads-in-a-box, regardless of the base shape.
I found myself oddly fascinated with the box sketch from last night, even if it wasn’t strictly a geometric head. So I tried to fancy it up a bit and started (only just) thinking about what other parts might look like, but I didn’t get very far:
It kind of seems more like some sort of trap than a full-0n dragon. I don’t know how much farther I will take this one.
I first thought of leaving this as *just* the box at right, but got worries that the drawing was somehow “not enough dragon.”
So I haven’t thought of any rules yet, instead pressing onward to an additional side:
Macejaw Dragons have squarish heads. But squares don’t seem to be as conducive to dragon-drawing as triangles (go figure).
Obviously, the angles and overall sleeker shape of the triangle lends itself more to drawing a typically predatory creature, or any reptile, really… squares don’t occur much in nature. Sigh. I may have to rethink this a bit.
I’m also surprised at how long it’s been since I’ve done anything with a Macejaw; used to be that I could pull one out of my head without thinking at all about where the pieces went. I should maybe revisit some of my previous creations, methinks.
I ended up being lazy and headachey this Sunday, so I didn’t get to (read as: feel like) painting.
I may also need to rethink the rules of this geometry project, such as they are.
Assuming our dragons still follow most basic natural laws (in order for them to be easier to suspend disbelief with), the triangle-shaped head implies a triangular prism[*], and not just a head that fits in a triangle shape…
But alas, perspective has never been an ally of mine… :/
*a bit of Googling later, I found that I actually meant (for the most part) a tetrahedron, though in some cases a triangular prism would probably have sufficed as well, especially since it’s easier to draw.
