[image_with_animation image_url=”10149″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] For today’s challenge you’ll need some paper and a pen (felt tipped pens work great for this) so that you can draw a Continuous Line, a line that goes on and on without stopping, requiring you to concentrate a little harder on whatever it is that you’re drawing because you can draw anything you want to as long as you don’t lift your pen because this is about continuous line, not stop and start line, so if you lift your pen, if you lift your pen even once, your drawing is done whether you feel finished or not, it’s done, meaning if you want to keep drawing you have to start a whole new drawing, another continuous line drawing in which you can’t lift your pen and then start again where you left off, because clearly that’d be out of bounds since this is continuous line drawing, a whole drawing without lifting your pen, not once, not even once, which is not the only challenging part of this challenging challenge to draw without lifting your pen, not once, not even once, unless you’re a beginner in which case it is totally alright for your lines to cross each other as long as the tip of the pen stays in contact with the paper (because this is continuous line and you can’t lift your pen from the paper not once, not even once), but if you’re a little bit good at this stuff and not a beginner so you can do with a little extra challenge then the second rule is that the line cannot cross its former path, as illustrated in the image above by Benoit Philippe.
Thankyou for sharingyourwork! I love seeing these artworks online. People who post to Instagram or on Facebook will be eligible to win prizes (see details). No matter where you post, tag us so we can find it. #seattleartistleague #salchallenge #continuousline
The June SAL Challenge: Creative exercises once a day for 30 days. [image_with_animation image_url=”10151″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”]
Statuesque Emma standing on flowered blanket, drypoint on 14×11″ Rives gray BFK A sister image to the last drypoint I posted. The model’s pose reminded me of classical sculptures. This is one of the first prints I made with drypoint, for this series. I was surprised and thrilled to see what the lovely pattern on …
Thursdays are vocabulary days for our 30 Day Creative Challenge, and our inspiration for today comes from Greek Mythology. Argus-eyed Vigilant. ‘The young salmon in the Orkla and Sokna rivers are monitored with Argus-eyed vigilance.’ (Source: Lexico) Origin Early 17th century in Greek mythology Argos was the name of a watchman with a hundred eyes. …
I got this idea from Makena Gadient at the recent CoCA 24 hour Art Marathon. This is an excellent design study. Take a stack of cards. Using a big sewing needle, poke random holes into the stack of cards so they all have the same pattern of holes. Then, using the same holes, create a …
Richard Diebenkorn: The Sketchbooks Revealed Text from Stanford.edu: Throughout his long career, seminal California artist Richard Diebenkorn (Stanford BA ’49) always kept a sketchbook—a “portable studio,” as he called it—to capture his ideas. The books contain 1,045 drawings that span the artist’s career and represent the range of styles and subjects he explored—both gestural renderings …
SAL Challenge: Continuous Line
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For today’s challenge you’ll need some paper and a pen (felt tipped pens work great for this) so that you can draw a Continuous Line, a line that goes on and on without stopping, requiring you to concentrate a little harder on whatever it is that you’re drawing because you can draw anything you want to as long as you don’t lift your pen because this is about continuous line, not stop and start line, so if you lift your pen, if you lift your pen even once, your drawing is done whether you feel finished or not, it’s done, meaning if you want to keep drawing you have to start a whole new drawing, another continuous line drawing in which you can’t lift your pen and then start again where you left off, because clearly that’d be out of bounds since this is continuous line drawing, a whole drawing without lifting your pen, not once, not even once, which is not the only challenging part of this challenging challenge to draw without lifting your pen, not once, not even once, unless you’re a beginner in which case it is totally alright for your lines to cross each other as long as the tip of the pen stays in contact with the paper (because this is continuous line and you can’t lift your pen from the paper not once, not even once), but if you’re a little bit good at this stuff and not a beginner so you can do with a little extra challenge then the second rule is that the line cannot cross its former path, as illustrated in the image above by Benoit Philippe.
Thank you for sharing your work! I love seeing these artworks online. People who post to Instagram or on Facebook will be eligible to win prizes (see details). No matter where you post, tag us so we can find it. #seattleartistleague #salchallenge #continuousline
The June SAL Challenge: Creative exercises once a day for 30 days. [image_with_animation image_url=”10151″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”]
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