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Post by Mme de Beaufort on Mar 19, 2008 10:58:42 GMT -5
I do sometimes sit down and sketch regency people (among other things); I did so last night and they came out... okay I guess ~ not bad considering they were done on copy-paper with a sharpie and they were generated in less than an hour for both. I coloured them with my water-colour pencils (which you wash with water after you've scribbled the colour in). They're not exactly perfectly proportioned, and the details are kind of messy; but what the hey! Thought I'd share. You've already seen one of my sketches, the ORS tea sketch I did at work with the same materials, except I did the colouring on Photoshop; she was really very much thrown together; drawn during a meeting in pencil on the back of a handout of the agenda. Out for a Trot Visiting Day I really powered up the colour values when I scanned them, and I didn't really pay any attention to the colours to speak of, I just wanted to really distinguish one garment from the next.
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Post by cosmoblue on Mar 19, 2008 12:05:50 GMT -5
Wow Steph those are so lovely. It makes me wish that I didn't hate drawing.
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Lady Serendipity
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Post by Lady Serendipity on Mar 19, 2008 13:43:16 GMT -5
Ooooh, SUPER cute!
I love to "scribble" too, and I'd be thrilled if I was able to as well as you!
Did you do these just out of your head, with no visual reference? I ask, because the little details in the clothes are really so perfect!
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Post by Mme de Beaufort on Mar 19, 2008 13:59:56 GMT -5
Yeah, they came off the top of my head. Idealized costumes... I tend to see what I imagine I'd like. ?? Make sense?
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Post by cosmoblue on Mar 19, 2008 15:17:17 GMT -5
Yeah, they came off the top of my head. Idealized costumes... I tend to see what I imagine I'd like. ?? Make sense? Definitely what you'd like. I totally see Lizzie's spencer and brown gloves your capote from the auction and your newest bonnet. The yellow gown looks like the white Danish Museum gown that you love.
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Post by Mme de Beaufort on Mar 19, 2008 15:49:31 GMT -5
Weird. LOL. Here's the one I just churned out during lunch today. I used regular coloured pencils, so no washing with water.. the image is muddy and badly cropped, apologies. I'm done drawing for now. The spate has ended.
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Post by Mme de Beaufort on Mar 19, 2008 15:52:18 GMT -5
Yeah, they came off the top of my head. Idealized costumes... I tend to see what I imagine I'd like. ?? Make sense? Definitely what you'd like. I totally see Lizzie's spencer and brown gloves your capote from the auction and your newest bonnet. The yellow gown looks like the white Danish Museum gown that you love. The ruched top is supposed to be a fishu--I have no idea what's going on underneath the blue spencer coat. Perhaps it is that Danish gown; all tucked away and mysterious.
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Post by Miss Ida on Mar 19, 2008 16:31:43 GMT -5
you are very talented Steph, I really enjoy the small drawings you make on your letters to me!
mine are far from yours!
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Post by Mme de Beaufort on Mar 19, 2008 16:36:38 GMT -5
Awww.. thanks Ida. Welcome back, I was just wondering where you were hiding these days. I think the man in the dancing couple; his eyes are too close together. He looks like a chimp. My co-worker asked if his hidden hand was possibly patting her behind.
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Post by savivi on Mar 19, 2008 17:28:59 GMT -5
I love them! And the costume designs are just lovely -- the clothes you made are the ones I always wanted to make for my dress up doll, but never had the design creativity for it. A white morning dress, yes -- but your gorgeous ballgown on the dancing woman -- certainly not!
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Post by Val on Mar 19, 2008 18:43:52 GMT -5
Those are very pretty, Steph, especially the watered watercolor ones.
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Post by Miss Ida on Mar 21, 2008 5:03:21 GMT -5
Awww.. thanks Ida. Welcome back, I was just wondering where you were hiding these days. I think the man in the dancing couple; his eyes are too close together. He looks like a chimp. My co-worker asked if his hidden hand was possibly patting her behind. I wanted to post my two new drawings but they are nothing compared to yours
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Post by Miss Ida on May 9, 2008 15:43:38 GMT -5
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Post by Mme de Beaufort on May 9, 2008 16:51:36 GMT -5
Wow! Such lovely artwork! I'm so glad I'm not the only one who sits around drawing Regency people (and animals... don't ask...).
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Post by Miss Ida on May 10, 2008 9:33:23 GMT -5
here I tried to draw Tulle (my cat)
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Post by Miss Ida on May 10, 2008 9:34:19 GMT -5
argh LARGE
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Post by modernmorland on May 10, 2008 10:45:08 GMT -5
Oh!! I love all of these. I wish I could draw in a cute cartoon-y sort of style, like Steph! That horse is gorgeous, and I love the gown on the dancing lady. I can't capture the drape of a garment unless I'm looking at a pre-existing picture of it. I would love to draw straight out of my imagination and have it look that good. A few years ago, I took a course in costume history for which the homework was to draw clothes, and here are my simple pencil sketches of faceless people (because I'm horrible at faces). There's someone you'll all recognize, but she's missing an arm because I took the photograph before I was finished. Her other arm is too long, so I'm somewhat dissatisfied with it. Here's her brother, Edward Austen-Knight. This last one is my [failed] attempt at Catherine Morland and Henry Tilney from Northanger Abbey. I'm proud of Catherine's hands and upper body, but she has too much skirt. Henry has too thick a torso and too skinny a right arm. Alas.
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Post by Miss Ida on May 10, 2008 11:39:46 GMT -5
Nonsense! they are great Modernmorland,
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Post by lauren on May 10, 2008 12:00:55 GMT -5
I love all of the drawings. They're lovely :-)
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Post by Miss Ida on May 17, 2008 4:47:15 GMT -5
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