Still very
much here and still working hard!
I’m busy
with “The natural way to draw – by Kimon Nikolaides”, it’s a goddamn extreme
program or schedule to start on. Each block of exercise is 3 hours and the last
hour is drawing a single blind contour sketch – HOLY FUCKING SHIT ON WHEELS!!! That’s
the biggest test of mental strength and focus I’ve ever fucking done EVER, half-way
through I want to stab out my eyes with a very fucking dull wooden spoon… and
so far I’ve done 6 of those 1 hour sessions - they don’t get any fucking easier…
just more agonizing, blind contour = torture, waterboarding got nothing on
blind contour if you ask me.
But fuck it, I rather have a red thread to follow than just sitting and waiting for some epiphany, though I do feel Kimon Nikolaides took me on my word when I said I would draw 10.000 circles if that’s what it will take for me to draw a decent circle (not sure if I ever said that… if I didn’t then I meant to and that makes it legit tbh!), I’m not sure how many A4’s I’ve gone through so far, but I’m almost done with my 500 stack :( and that’s with drawing on both fucking sides!!!
But fuck it, I rather have a red thread to follow than just sitting and waiting for some epiphany, though I do feel Kimon Nikolaides took me on my word when I said I would draw 10.000 circles if that’s what it will take for me to draw a decent circle (not sure if I ever said that… if I didn’t then I meant to and that makes it legit tbh!), I’m not sure how many A4’s I’ve gone through so far, but I’m almost done with my 500 stack :( and that’s with drawing on both fucking sides!!!
Here’s the
stack so far, I can’t even imagine how big it will be when I’m done… Anyway,
the exercises aren’t really meant to be shared and they would make very little
sense I think, just take the cross contour, those exercises are literally just
lines on a sheet of paper, I don’t follow some outline, instead it’s just from
A to B and “oh lets go up now… hey why not go right and hmm up looks fun, oh
top of the head now… np lets jump back to the waist and go down the leg a bit…”
the outcome is unintelligible even by myself.
I love the gesture exercises though, the fact that it’s supposed to be done “furiously” without stop and never lifting the pen off the paper and not bothering with outlines ofc, is really refreshing.
I love the gesture exercises though, the fact that it’s supposed to be done “furiously” without stop and never lifting the pen off the paper and not bothering with outlines ofc, is really refreshing.
It's proved a bit hard for me to multitask, meaning I don't get around to draw anything other than these exercises atm, I hope I'll be able to scribble a drawing here and there, but when my motivation and focus are this concentrated I know from experince I need to run with it. :)
