Sketchbooking

[amberdreams]

Haven't done a Sketchbook update for a while so here's a small one.

Stan Prokopenko's doing his usual Advent videos with helpful stuff, and there was one about meditation and automatic drawing that had me itching for paper and pencil. I've included the vid in the post in case anyone wants to have a go - and this guy is very soothing to watch even if you don't want to draw anything yourself.

Here are mine - one in 4B pencil and one using a brush pen. I definitely prefer the brush pen, it was more conducive to a flowing line and felt much more satisfying to me.


The idea is to not think at all and basically see what happens.

Edited to add some actual Scketbooking stuff.

This term's sketchbooking class has been a mixed bag, really. A lot of the things I've produced look really boring, but it has been good for getting me to really look at objects, and there have been some interesting ideas about using colour etc that I would never have tried otherwise.

Here are a couple of pages.
In case you can't see it, this is a lizard's face - unfinished

The idea behind that one was to get the outlined shape and then fill in some of the detail in different ways, in patches. I never got past the detail part! LOL

This next one was trying to draw low contrast objects - like white cloth, white blister packs etc. HARD!

A couple of more colourful ones next. All of these are using colour to try and emphasise the subject matter - so the idea is either to saturate the object and use cooler, less saturated colours for the backgrounds, or vice versa. Also this first page was done using jsut the paintbrush to draw with - no outlining or pencil drawing first.

The next one was similar - trying with monotone backgrounds and full colour objects.
And yes, that is one of the members of BTS sneaking into the scene - I was going to try painting him, but wasn't sure how to make it work, so went for the still life instead.

I wish I had a tidy work space at home, with a nice big table to work from instead of the jumble sale mess that is my reality...