Gesture and Contour [02/10/11]

Two minute


I'm getting better at drawing the figure quickly and accurately within these two minute poses. It's warm up and I am getting the hang of it. It's very useful to do these in the beginning of class all the time.

With these two minute poses, I'm using smaller paper for very good reasons. For one, it is quick so the smaller I draw, the more detail I can get in with extra scribbles and since these drawings won't be as polished, the bigger paper wouldn't do it much justice and I save the bigger paper for longer poses. For convenience, the smaller drawings can be saved and scanned easier than if I had to scan the larger paper with unfinished poses. And lastly, I usually draw on smaller paper outside of class, so it would give me practice for that as well.

I did draw the other 2 minute poses on the large newsprint with vine charcoal and it does warm me up to the longer poses. But, I wouldn't save them since I would erase them with the chamois. I do like the background the erased marks leave, but I realized that those marks can be made as I am drawing.

medium: ball point pen


5 minute

Five minute drawings go by very quickly. To be honest, sometimes I'm already contemplating whether or not I should outline the drawing because I'm already thinking that I should erase it before time is up. It's hard to erase outlines since they are darker than vine charcoal.

This happened already happened where I would erase the drawing with the outline because it wasn't finished and it looked bad.

Five minute is a challenge. I really have to find a balance between making something looked finish and getting it right to keep.

medium: vine charcoal with charcoal pencil - 4b for outline

20 minute

I'm still struggling with dwelling on somethings too long and making mistakes that should have been fixed with the gesture drawing. My first 20 minute drawing was one of those in which I dwell too long and 20 minutes was over. [The one with the chair]

I'm really proud of my last 20 minute drawing. [The one with legs propped against the wall] I got the proportions correct and I had enough time to shade and everything.

medium: vine, compressed and charcoal pencil.

Before class, I found a vine charcoal stick on one of the seats next to me! yes! Vine charcoal runs out so fast since I use them so often. They are easy to erase with too so they are very loose and somewhat powdery as a stick. I need to buy more.

In Design
I decided that I am going to convert my online entries into a magazine issue with InDesign!
Very exciting!