This is day 10 of our 30 day creative challenge! To learn more about this 30SAL challenge, click here.
Draw someone talking. Instead of illustrating their face, focus on describing their character and story through their body language. The scene can be drawn in a comic style sequence of squares, or all in one frame like the fragment taken from the Jenny Saville sketch above. Text is optional.
Share your drawing on Instagram with these tags: #30sal, #bodylanguage
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Day 10: Body Language #30SAL
This is day 10 of our 30 day creative challenge! To learn more about this 30SAL challenge, click here.
Draw someone talking. Instead of illustrating their face, focus on describing their character and story through their body language. The scene can be drawn in a comic style sequence of squares, or all in one frame like the fragment taken from the Jenny Saville sketch above. Text is optional.
Share your drawing on Instagram with these tags: #30sal, #bodylanguage
Or post to today’s Padlet page.
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