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Roger Swezey

4 Years Ago

Think B I G ! !

For those who feel "paralyzed" when it comes to drawing.

I contend it's because your EYE, MIND and HAND is cluttered with preconceived ideas on how things should be, thus how things should look.

You gotta rid your mind of all these misconceptions....and SEE things clearly ANEW


To do this, I say

THINK BIG !!

Get a large 18" x 24" newsprint pad

Example:

https://www.amazon.com/Canson-Biggie-Newsprint-Pad-Inches/dp/B0025TX394

(A 24" x 36" would be better)

Get MESSY

Charcoal sticks

Example

https://www.jerrysartarama.com/willow-charcoal?gclid=CjwKCAiA98TxBRBtEiwAVRLqu-0t0TDPDbLdWWECKp8NrxnHwPQQ6iDQjtldUV-yaiI0-wZvbYQIexoCeT0QAvD_BwE


Draw from LIFE

(Can be a corner of a room)


Fill the PAGE

Work the borders FIRST


Don't get tied up on details. (details will come later, and naturally)

THINK BUILDING UP MAIN 3D FORMS.....From background to foreground


You can't erase so SMUDGE it Out.

GET INTO IT !!!.....Feel the TACTILITY of the exercise.

WORK FAST...Filling one sheet and starting another.(you got 100 sheets to work with)

And HAVE FUN !!!

And I'm certain you'll WANT to enter whatever Sketch (exercise) Challenge would be currently going


Any thoughts?


Edit:

I added a 24" x 36" pad option

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Mary Bedy

4 Years Ago

Good advice, Roger. I personally like gesture drawings - or semi blind gesture drawings. That is where you take an object and just look at it and basically sketch it out without looking at the paper. Just really the outline. You get a real FEEL for the subject that way and can end up with some interesting images.

IT DOESN'T HAVE TO LOOK LIKE A PHOTOGRAPH!!!!

I was thinking of starting a thread myself, about some of the work I've discovered on this site (traditional media, not photography) that I know would never be accepted by a gallery, but which I found full of SOUL and really spoke to me. I've favoriited several of those drawings and paintings. They have character. Some of the well trained and excellent artists here also have work with character, but with some of them, I find the work technically excellent but dull, dry and uninspiring.

And, yeah, what Roger said.

 

Mary Bedy

4 Years Ago

Roger, I think everybody went out to lunch and never came back. Where is everybody? LOL.

 

Uther Pendraggin

4 Years Ago

Thank you Roger.

This is like the exercise of drawing upside down. To free your mind of perceptions and expectations and allow you to just follow the lines.

Another idea I have heard is to use your other hand (right if left handed) to give yourself the excuse if it isn't perfect (just to loosen up and open the pathways)

As always.

PLAU
UPD

 

Mario Carta

4 Years Ago

Roger, I hear you. I will gladly give this a shot once I have some time. I have at times given drawing a shot and I was surprised at what I discovered! What you say is true!

 

Mary Bedy

4 Years Ago

Uther, I like the upside down thing too. You stop being attached to "what it is" and concentrate better on the negative spaces and lines.

 

Roger Swezey

4 Years Ago

RE:...."Upside Down"

Since I insist that the subject for this exercise comes directly from actual 3 dimensional LIFE, the one drawing would have to stand on his/her head.


RE:....."Other Hand"

The following was my suggestion, I made on my yesterday's thread to one of our members, claiming that he just can't draw.

"Edit:

Come to think of it....Maybe you have, for all these years, been using the wrong hand....Just try the other hand and other side of the brain and SEE what happens"

 

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