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A Drummer's Canvas

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Well, this was a pain to make.

I've been trying to come up with a drawing gift to give to my percussion teacher because she is awesome and I would not have survived band without her. When she replaced the old beat up drum heads on my drumset, I came up with the idea of using the poor misshapen drum heads as a painting canvas. I keep forgetting how much I fail at painting.

The idea was, of course, painting the drum set with pure white to stand out against the black drum head. This required ousting most of the details in the drum that I would have normally added with graphite. The main thing I had to worry about there was the toms and a couple of places of the cymbals. I sketched it all out on paper first (so I wouldn't die) and then pursued in one of the craziest ideas I've ever had. I covered the back of the paper with yellow chalk and taped it chalk-down to the drum head and went over my lines firmly to hopefully transfer the drawing onto the head. What I got was a chalky mess with a vage outine of a drumset in it. Parts of the original design were entirely gone.

That's what I used to paint the drawing. Oh, and I used a small wooden dowel with a sharpened tip for a paintbrush because I didn't trust a paintbrush to be thin enough for some of the lines, and the dowel was shaped mostly like a pencil, and I wouldn't cry if it got paint on it. Well, I soon found out that you can't draw with paint the same way you can draw with graphite. That's why there's a lot of blatent gaps and sketchy marks in the painting. Some of the paint is yellow tinted due to the chalk, and parts of the drumset don't look quite right because my chalk outline was erased (the entire base for the cymbal on the right was gone which is why it looks kind of squished)

I messed up on the logo on the bass drum. It's supposed to say TAMA with a symbol before the T that looks kind of like a K. This was another bit of the drawing that got erased in the chalk drawing, so I messed up on it.

Also, note the cymbal on the left. Find it a little odd that the stand is odd near the top? Like, it should look similar to the cymbal on the right, but it's not quite right? Well, that's because my drum set has three cymbals. I was planning on leaving out the ride cymbal because it's in the background, but the second crash cymbal comes in front of the left tom and the bass drum a little which would have become a pain with only black and white, so I instead left out the crash cymbal. The problem with that is that the ride cymbal doesn't have the nobber on the back that both crash cybals have to counterbalance it since the ride cymbal isn't banged up so much that it might fall over, but without that, the drawing becomes uneven and it looks strange. So, I made my own alterations to the stand holding the ride cymbal, but it made the stand different than the crash stand on the right because I was still basing the design mostly off of the ride cymbal. So, yeah. Not that anyone really care or even noticed this difference until I pointed it out just now and probably still have no idea what I'm talking about... Maybe I should just shut up now...

So, yeah. It's not terrible I guess. It's kind of funny seeing the beat up head behind the drum set. This was the least beat up out of all the heads I had to choose from. It made me understand the extent of the damage done to the drum heads when I had to choose one for a canvas.

And, yes, I am a drummer. If you hadn't already guessed that by now. ^^U
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Daricio's avatar
=O! Wow, I'm impressed! This turned out really really well!

^^ I think your instructor shall love it. I know I do!