[image_with_animation image_url=”9488″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] This is the third part of a multi day series, sharing work by my beginning figure drawing classes. Many of these students have never taken a drawing class before, nearly all of them are new to figure drawing.
Rather than learning one style, we study a different approach every session. We’ve done straight line measures, site sizing, envelopes, kites, mass shapes, shadows, gestures, contours, volume, cross-hatching, and more. Today I’m posting a few of the silly ones. These are blind contour line drawings. The point with these is not to learn accurate proportions. Instead, blind contour line drawings teach us how to focus, and notice details. The line work gets more interesting because the artist is exercising intensely active curiosity in their subject for the duration of the drawing.
A drawing is a record of our focus.
Also, these drawings are silly, and silly is good.
William Scott (1913 – 1989) British artist, known for still-life and abstract painting. He is the most internationally celebrated of 20th-century Ulster painters. (wiki) Yesterday I posted charcoal drawings by William Scott. Today I’m posting his paintings. I look at these as a series of compositional experiments. I like to look at each object that he separated, grouped. …
Sometimes people send me personal emails in response to my V. Notes. Sometimes those emails include interesting artwork that relates to my post. In response to yesterday’s post about the sumi painter Pan Gongkai, I received an email from Jodi Waltier, a League textiles instructor, including artwork for her upcoming show. Hey Ruthie, … am …
Beginner’s Drawings That’ll Knock Your Socks Off (Part 3)
[image_with_animation image_url=”9488″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] This is the third part of a multi day series, sharing work by my beginning figure drawing classes. Many of these students have never taken a drawing class before, nearly all of them are new to figure drawing.
Rather than learning one style, we study a different approach every session. We’ve done straight line measures, site sizing, envelopes, kites, mass shapes, shadows, gestures, contours, volume, cross-hatching, and more. Today I’m posting a few of the silly ones. These are blind contour line drawings. The point with these is not to learn accurate proportions. Instead, blind contour line drawings teach us how to focus, and notice details. The line work gets more interesting because the artist is exercising intensely active curiosity in their subject for the duration of the drawing.
A drawing is a record of our focus.
Also, these drawings are silly, and silly is good.
Enjoy.
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