Lots of sketching this week. Copying some ideas outright (the horse below, frex), following a tutorial (the mouth), outright doodling, drawing with Sprout (sea creatures); all in all, working with different techniques... Speaking of techniques, when I mentioned gesture drawing last week, I meant "scribbled line gesture drawing" as seen here and in this video. I can understand why some artists say not to rely on it (encourages messy lines), but I think I'll try it a bit more as a way to get over my brain's perfectionist tendencies.
A sample of what I did:
And I did some blind contour sketches of J, hilariously bad ones. I'm going to try this exercise at least two or three times this coming week and am posting this week's effort so I'll be able to judge my progress. I actually like the aborted one that is serving as a new icon.
A sample of what I did:
And I did some blind contour sketches of J, hilariously bad ones. I'm going to try this exercise at least two or three times this coming week and am posting this week's effort so I'll be able to judge my progress. I actually like the aborted one that is serving as a new icon.
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I like that these experiments encourage playfulness.
I've tried furniture but it usually ends up so abstract you don't know what it is; maybe that means I need to do more.
It is funny, but I remember doing blind contour in a uni drawing class and being better at it. Makes me wonder what has happened to my eye-hand coordination since then. Apropos, J has a hard time believing I played basketball (much less that I was a starter), I'm so bad at hitting a target.