Two first
schedules done!!!!1 (DEAR SUPERMAN IF YOUR READING THIS - PLEASE NO MORE CONTOUR /pray)
Not really sure what to think so far, I seem to swing from ”A-ha”
to ”uhm… this can’t be right”, so it’s very confusing at times to say the
least.
It’s very
weird not to be “drawing” in the normal sense, but instead scribble things down
furiously and then slow tortured with the blind contour.
I do have some fun moments though, like when I’m trying to mimic/feel the gesture and impulse, for example someone doing a stretching out pose and suddenly I find myself drawing in a heavy *sigh* preparing for incoming muscle pains, or when the pose switches into something more battle orientated and out of the fucking blue there's a small growl and clenched fist… goddamn you feel stupid as fuck, but at the same time that sense of immersion is prolly part of the shizzle – I can’t really say it changes much in the sense of the outcome, it gets a lot more engaging sure, but also 99% of the pose gets lost in the process. That’s the thing I can’t seem to find the right balance between chaos and figure, either it’s a drawing of a “spaghetti bowl” or it’s at least in the ballpark of looking human.
I do have some fun moments though, like when I’m trying to mimic/feel the gesture and impulse, for example someone doing a stretching out pose and suddenly I find myself drawing in a heavy *sigh* preparing for incoming muscle pains, or when the pose switches into something more battle orientated and out of the fucking blue there's a small growl and clenched fist… goddamn you feel stupid as fuck, but at the same time that sense of immersion is prolly part of the shizzle – I can’t really say it changes much in the sense of the outcome, it gets a lot more engaging sure, but also 99% of the pose gets lost in the process. That’s the thing I can’t seem to find the right balance between chaos and figure, either it’s a drawing of a “spaghetti bowl” or it’s at least in the ballpark of looking human.
What I wouldn’t give for some actual face-to-face tutoring - it’s the sense of being caught in
the rush-hour traffic , well knowing that somewhere there’s a road where you
can fucking floor it.
Anywho
thought I would at least upload some of those 60 second gesture “scribbles”.
These ones doesn’t show the whole spectrum obviously, I’ve gone through my 500 arks
of A4 paper and a 4B pencil now (using both sides of the paper ofc.) and the
style varies… a whole fucking lot - to put it mildly.
It’s been a
week and some days now and I haven’t drawn anything other than 60 second
gestures and marathon contours in this time, so when I was watching an episode
of Californication and got the urge to try and capture the gesture or feel, I
kinda had to run with it.
I can’t say for sure how much time I spend on each, I put “Katie Melua – If you were a sailboat/It’s all in my head” on repeat and I would guestimate each scribble was about a song or maybe two in length – fairly short and done with the style as my gesture drawings with a little more focus on shapes, but not getting overboard, just trying to zone in and let the pencil do the drawing (Hank Moody’s story in essence is just fucking sublime in my humble opinion!).
The outcome is kinda weird for me, without the connection to the gesture it’s just not the same (for me that connection is out of the window the second I move on), but it’s liberating nonetheless to actually draw something in a short and furious action. Go back just two weeks and I wouldn’t have been able to let go like this, it would have been all analytical, measuring proportions, checking perspective and then “maybe” do a very trembling careful line or two here and there, the thought of starting a line without being fully aware of where it might end, would have been utter alien tbh… so that’s new at least :P
I can’t say for sure how much time I spend on each, I put “Katie Melua – If you were a sailboat/It’s all in my head” on repeat and I would guestimate each scribble was about a song or maybe two in length – fairly short and done with the style as my gesture drawings with a little more focus on shapes, but not getting overboard, just trying to zone in and let the pencil do the drawing (Hank Moody’s story in essence is just fucking sublime in my humble opinion!).
The outcome is kinda weird for me, without the connection to the gesture it’s just not the same (for me that connection is out of the window the second I move on), but it’s liberating nonetheless to actually draw something in a short and furious action. Go back just two weeks and I wouldn’t have been able to let go like this, it would have been all analytical, measuring proportions, checking perspective and then “maybe” do a very trembling careful line or two here and there, the thought of starting a line without being fully aware of where it might end, would have been utter alien tbh… so that’s new at least :P
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