Today’s challenge is to draw using a disposable fork. This may at first seem odd and awkward, but if you think about it, a fork offers instant parallel crosshatch marks, saving you the time and trouble of drawing each line individually! Efficient.
For this exercise, I recommend you avoid relying on outlines to describe the forms and instead draw the tonal areas of light and dark.
value scale from light to dark, with cross hatching
For the fork portion of this fine experiment, a small bowl of india or acrylic ink works great, but if you don’t have ink you can use coffee or dark tea. If you get impatient and end up with a puddle, let it dry while you work another area. Puddles and drips can be fun, but they can also make a hard and heavy transition to your finer areas of line work. You might want to have a paper towel nearby.
If you are new to drawing or just want a boost, feel free to trace a pencil sketch from a black and white photograph using a window or a bright screen, or transfer paper. When it’s time for the fork, you will want to draw on a table – ink forks don’t do vertical surfaces very well.
For a slightly more advanced challenge, follow the contours of each object to add a sense of volume.
Welcome to day 25! Only five more days to go in our 30 Day Creative Challenge! Tuesdays are “See and Respond” days. Today I have the head and feet of a figure drawing by Paul Cezanne. Your job is to fill in the middle. You can use the original drawing below and make a transcription …
Painting above: Xue Wang, Uninvited Guest I can’t believe some of the shit my brain says. I wouldn’t let anyone talk to me the way I talk to myself when I try to paint. I pretend the voice is coming from a person who is standing in the room. I can’t help but laugh …
In Friday’s post I bragged about the drawings created in my recent Painterly Figures with Tone class. The earlier post shared how beautiful a drawing can be when the figure is sketched with no more or less attention than the wall behind it, with no outlines or delineations of form, only scribbles of tone. Today’s …
My thoughts so far have separated this warped perspective into two potential causes. First, when we look directly at something such as a pipe or an architectural beam, when in front of us it appears to be straight, but if we don’t move our eyes, it might be that the object slightly bends in our …
30SAL Challenge: Fork it!
Today’s challenge is to draw using a disposable fork. This may at first seem odd and awkward, but if you think about it, a fork offers instant parallel crosshatch marks, saving you the time and trouble of drawing each line individually! Efficient.
For this exercise, I recommend you avoid relying on outlines to describe the forms and instead draw the tonal areas of light and dark.
For the fork portion of this fine experiment, a small bowl of india or acrylic ink works great, but if you don’t have ink you can use coffee or dark tea. If you get impatient and end up with a puddle, let it dry while you work another area. Puddles and drips can be fun, but they can also make a hard and heavy transition to your finer areas of line work. You might want to have a paper towel nearby.
If you are new to drawing or just want a boost, feel free to trace a pencil sketch from a black and white photograph using a window or a bright screen, or transfer paper. When it’s time for the fork, you will want to draw on a table – ink forks don’t do vertical surfaces very well.
For a slightly more advanced challenge, follow the contours of each object to add a sense of volume.
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