This morning I wanted to continue working on the drawing of the boat from yesterday, but I also needed to make a gift for a friend for a gift exchange I'm involved in a couple of weeks from now. I decided to make a sketch book for her out of pretty papers since she'll be taking Beginning Drawing starting the week after that. The book is done using a coptic binding which allows the pages to lie flat when the book is open - very practical for a sketchbook!
At 11, I had the pleasure of teaching a private student Beginning Drawing then this afternoon I taught Intermediate Drawing at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond. In class, I gave the students the assignment of drawing a single object at least 12 times. To facilitate their process, I gave them a table with 12 entries suggesting ways to draw the object, and another table listing 6 different media they could use.
Blind Contour
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Modified Blind Contour
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Gesture
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Negative Space
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Detail in 1”x1” box
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Focusing on volume
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Focusing on value
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Using cross hatching
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Fill the entire page with just a segment of the object
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Using 1 continuous line
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Using only 3 lines
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Filled with patterns
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6B pencil
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01 Micron
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Peel-able charcoal pencil
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Fat charcoal
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4H pencil
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Anything else you have
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I had them tear up the tables and place the pieces of paper in 2 different piles then draw one from each pile to create a drawing. So for example, they might get "Focusing on volume" and "01 Micron". Then they would create a drawing with shading that emphasized value using a 01 Micron pen. The drawings students came up with were very cool! After a time, they got tired of working with just a single object, but I encouraged them to keep going because the best break throughs come in this exercise when people push beyond the frustration/boredom and do something completely different.
Here are a few of the drawings I created using this system:
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| focus on value, large charcoal |
I'd love to see what you create using this exercise if you decide to do it. It's lots of fun! I hope you'll give it a try!
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| blind contour drawing, 3 minutes, Micron 01 |
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| negative space, peel-able charcoal |
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| blind contour 5 minutes, Micron 01 |
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| put patterns in it, large charcoal (no time for the patterns!); 1" box, large charcoal |
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