"If you want to change your art, change your habits."
~ C. Greenberg
The first ten days of Sketching Every Day 2021
This is a quick little sketch I did today, looking out my window as I was sitting
in front of my computer waiting for a file to download.
Day 3 • Watercolor and Ink Sketch
This is the first example for the #sketchwithmechallenge drawn and painted from life.
Although you can't sketch this from life, use my reference photos above to do your own interpretation.
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Day 4 • Watercolor and Ink Sketch
This is the second example for the #sketchwithmechallenge drawn and painted from life.
Although you can't sketch this from life, use my reference photos above to do your own interpretation.
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Day 5 • Watercolor and Ink Sketch
This is the third example for the #sketchwithmechallenge drawn and painted from life.
Although you can't sketch this from life, use my reference photos above to do your own interpretation.
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"Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing." ~ Robert Henri
This sketch was inspired by seeing a cardinal feeding a sunflower seed to a Goldfinch.
Next time I'll use smoother paper
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“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.” ~ W. Elliot
Day
10 • 8 Minute Blind Contour Drawing
This is a photo of one of the blind contour drawings I did today
of an elephant figurine I have. Elephants are really fun to draw
because they are made up of so many great shapes. A Blind Contour
Drawing is extremely valuable in learning to SEE BETTER. This is not
meant to be a great picture. It's a training exercise. This is an
excellent exercise that improves hand-eye coordination helps to
facilitate the right brain shift and really helps you to SEE. The idea
is to refrain from looking down at your paper while you very slowly draw
your subject, caressing the object with your eyes. If you lose your
way, you can look down and reposition your pencil if need be. But while
drawing, you must not look at your paper, concentrating only on
following the contours, not just the outline of the shape. The results
will not be accurate and more often than not, does not make a pretty
drawing, but this 5 - 30 minute exercise really helps you to make the L
to R mode shift and produces some interesting studies.
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"Habits can be bad things or good, but the reasons they become habits is
because we do them so often, they become natural to us. drawing or not drawing can become habit. It all depends on you."
~ Adapted from C. Henderson
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