24 Aug 2009

Course work: Started work on Assignment 1, Section 2, “Basic Shapes.” Did a sketchbook page with squares, triangles, circles, and ovals, and how some can “change” to others with change of viewpoint. Did an A3 sheet with boxes and cylinders: learned that a marker is not the ideal tool for fairly precise drawing, as it has a tendency to stick and slip, producing jerky lines that often don’t go quite where they were intended to go.

Reading:
The Drawing Book, Sarah Simblet
Dorling Kindersley, London 2005
Forward, Introduction, Drawing Books and Papers, Posture and Grip (pp7-23)
(This book is a delight to the eye, but the textual material read today is covered just as well in other books)

Personal sketchbook work: Repeated blind contour drawing exercise on p22, Simpson (see reference above). Used “check-back” method this time, but subject is still just barely recognizable. I think this particular exercise is designed to induce humility in the student, and it does so very well.

Total time: apx. 1 ½ hrs