Feel
You know what? I’m pretty happy with this one.
It’s another one I copied out of an art book. It’s the Virgin Annunciate by Antonello da Messina. (Here’s the actual painting.)
Hey sure, it’s got some problems. I think the biggest thing is that her hands kind of get lost in the lines of her mantle. I need to find a way to make things stand out from busy areas more.
But it’s got things that went right too! For perhaps the first time in my drawings:
- her face looks human, not undead.
- her mantle looks 3D! It’s got texture and folds.
- her bookstand thing has different texture. It looks hard, while other stuff looks soft.
Overall, it’s just - this drawing has a feel to it. And as a beginner, I’m happy with that as a place to be right now. I can stand up and truthfully declare ‘I produce things with occasional feel’.
