Friday 30 July 2010




Course work: Four 30-second gestures. We then returned to the pose of the worst gesture for an eleven-minute blind contour, almost equally bad.

A very bright sunny window gave me the idea of doing an experiment in which I drew only the boundaries of major tonal changes. My first efforts on scrap paper yielded a series of black lines of only moderate interest, resembling a combined gesture and contour, but I decided to reproduce them in my sketchbook with marker over acrylic, which I think yielded a somewhat more interesting outcome (and planted a seed for some future experiments as well). Today’s line drawing went better…I measured very carefully, started from the center instead of the head, and got it all on the paper…and with generous use of the eraser was fairly pleased overall. My model’s socks gave the opportunity to add a few extra interesting

lines.

Reading:



Clem Robins The Art of Figure Drawing

North Light Books, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, 2003

Pp. 26-39



Personal sketchbook work: Another visit to hanging drapery (the first in a while) this time using a red chalk pencil.

Total time: 2 hours 12 minutes