The feet are the main focus of this drawing, looking better while taking me much less time to draw (at most 3 to 5 minutes among the roughly 1 hour session) than the cluttered desktop.
Clear sighting brings out clarity and reduces unnecessary manual works.
I remember a homework assignment during my first grade asking to fill in the blank among sentences, such as: blah a piece of —- blah. For reasons I could no longer recall, I only looked at the local context but not the whole sentences, and put in answers like: a piece of mouth.
The next day, the teacher summoned me during the lunch break and asked me how come I have a piece of mouth inside my desk.
In my latest sketching, I also focused on only the local details without paying attention to the global structures to begin with.
I picked this sharp corner, which looks fascinating, from the office floor that we just moved away from to practice extreme perspective. I panned my head around, so my drawing is more of a cylindrical perspective projection. This panning probably also caused my mistake of not putting the two vanishing points at the same horizontal line.
(October 23, 2018)
This sign came up after a few more visits to the empty office floor:
I did not find mechanical sighting measurements very helpful or enjoyable, so instead I just place rough outlines on the canvas, see if they look right, and adjust.
Drawing from a real scene is more challenging than drawing from a photograph, due to the need to carefully sight the relationships on a virtual 2D plane without wandering around in 3D.
The instruction book says 30 minutes but this one took me almost 2 hours because I had difficulty measuring the perspectives and proportions entirely by sight and eventually had to place down the horizontal vanishing point first.
I bought these sketch books before 2006, did not start to practice until 2015, stopped around 2016 to pursue my own path, and resumed reading today.
Copying from a master can be quite fun and help me appreciate their greatness.
Slight deviations of proportions can dramatically change the facial identity. In this case, I drew the eyes slightly too large and too high above the nose. The kid looks even more exciting than I could capture. I can denser the hairs further but decided not to bother with extra manual labor.
Some people draw better when their brains are in a looser state; for me, it still requires great focus, no less than coding or writing research papers.
I was quite sleepy so I did this one freestyle without much structuring; the effect is completely unrealistic but yet kind of fun.
It is usually much more effective to talk directly with the hiring managers for job opportunities. Recruiters, either internally to the companies or externally in agencies, are usually less effective, even though I have encountered a few very good ones and enjoyed the processes.
If you are receiving more recruiter contacts than your bandwidth can handle, one strategy is as follows. Tell the recruiter that you are very happy with your current job (true for me, but pretend to be so even if you are not) and are not thinking about switching now. However, you are interested to know more about the opportunity, and might be able to recommend other suitable candidates.
A run-of-the-mill recruiter, looking for a quick score, will usually pass by after reading this message.
A smart recruiter, on the other hand, knows the importance of building relationships and expanding networks, and top candidates usually have good jobs; they will be more likely to get back to you.
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