Snippet Sunday

[wayfaringwordhack]

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.

Comments

[frigg.livejournal.com]

lol... my students did blind contour sketches Thursday, had a lot of fun with it. One loved it so much she did nothing else for the first two hours.

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

They are fun and can produce some surprisingly nice line drawings.

[mana-trini.livejournal.com]

I love the new icon, so graphic

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

Wow, fancy seeing you on LJ after all this time. *hugs*

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

The hydrocephalic last blind sketch of J is pretty funny :D

I like that these experiments encourage playfulness.

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

I have some more hilarious efforts to show, but I won't flood my flist. Another time. It is a fun exercise. At least I get one belly laugh a day. Going to try to do other things like my hands and feet...

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.

[clarentine]

Those blind contour sketches look amazingly like the art in Zelazny's "A Night in the Lonesome October." Oh, hey, and I think those were Gahan Wilson, he of the currently controversial World Fantasy Award statuette (and a really interesting artist, sez I, because I do love a good line drawing). So, really, you're in good company. Or J is. Or something. :-)

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

I wonder if any of PIcasso's famous line drawings are pure blind contour or not. If so, I have a lot of work to do. I must admit to liking the funky side of a lot of my efforts.

[clarentine]

See? Good company!