An accountability post

LauraA

@demotlj A tripod is a great idea! I may just have to try it. I've recently found out how very hard it can be to try to take a photo of one's self with both hands clasped behind one's back

As for the pattern, I was aware of the overlap and also that it may be inconsistent, but for now I've left it that way. There is a part of me that wants to do collage and more abstract patterning, and it's fighting with the part that wants to be observationally consistent. This is one reason I'm having a problem with environments and why I really look forward to the new SVS environments course when it comes out. It's all part of the "finding your style" problem!

@lauraa I think this is one of those moments when thinking of the pose in silhouette would help to see how you could get it to read better. Chris

LauraA

@c-davies Good point!

Heather Boyd

I was just standing and trying out your pose. Have you thought of bending your girl's arms a bit. It would give it a more "brace yourself" feel, because her right knee is bent. Also what is the context she is in? Why is she putting up her arms?

@LauraA

LauraA

@demotlj I'm really thinking about this tripod idea! (Just spend a long time twisting around to see how the dress would wrinkle from the back.)

Also, my daughter, who does SLR photography, said to get a decent remote (bluetooth maybe?) because half the time hers doesn't work and then you wasted all that time getting in position! But she doesn't know what's available for phones. Maybe all I need is basically a fancy selfie stick, but I want it to sit on the floor and be able to take the photo remotely with as little in my hands as possible.

Right now I would be attaching an iPhone 5, but the phone is probably nearing the end of its life so I would like the tripod to work on a subsequent model as well. Any idea what the thing I'm looking for is called so I can search for it online? I'm so behind in technology!

Thank you!

LauraA

@heather-boyd Honestly all I know is that I originally got this from one of the SVS course handouts and I can't even find it anymore! But I like the way that having her arms out stiff looks so emphatic. I rather imagine that either someone is holding out something disgusting and so she's saying, "Not one step further!" Or else she sees her friends in a fight and she's yelling, "Stop!"

demotlj

@lauraa My setup is really low tech. I use a simple iphone holder that I got for my bike (mine is a universal phone mount made by Vibrelli) that I attached to a tripod. I use the selfie setting on a 10 second timer. I don't know if there is a bluetooth shutter gizmo for the iphone but the timer works fine and the problem I have more often is that I have to do it many times to get the angle and pose just the way I want it. I have some very funny pictures of myself posing on the back of couches to simulate horseback riding, posing with my dogs for animal scenes, dressed in weird outfits to figure out how clothing would drape, etc.! I make sure I delete them as soon as I've used them so no one ever sees them!

LauraA

@demotlj That sounds like it would work!

LauraA

@c-davies So I moved the hands. It's rough, and now I'm convinced that no one has ever held their hands at the angle I'm trying to draw them, but I do agree that the silhouette looks better. Thanks!

Meanwhile I have been drawing this pose from every angle, really trying to understand it in three dimensions. It can't hurt. I may feel up for a complete redraw later, or I may just move on to a different pose. It could in fact be that the entire exercise is just one more way to avoid environments

Meanwhile my Cintiq, or perhaps Photoshop, has been possessed by a poltergeist and I've spent the better part of the day trying to troubleshoot why things keep flying around everywhere onscreen!

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P.S. Only just now noticed the chunk missing from her hand. Will go fix that...

@lauraa cool, sorry I can't help with the software issues, I use a Wacom and when things get Wonky , things start flying around, I trash the app and reinstall . Chris