I like to warm up with three quick sketches just to get the creative juices flowing. Lots of times one of those quick warm-up is all I get to do for that day. But even something as simple as that is a way of "keeping at it."
I prefer to warm up with contour drawings that have no erasures and no "pentimenti." Just follow the perimeter as best I can with a single line. It's good fun, and I have found it to be a marvelous training for the eye-hand connector.
Here's one of my warm-ups. A plastic milk bottle. In the right light the thing has Monet colors. I want to paint one.
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you see shapes very well. your lines are accurate enough and confidently placed. Not hundreds of little sketchy mistakes that compose one good line. I don't "see" shapes well enough yet to be able to do it draw so simplisticly. I admire that skill.
ReplyDeleteA good example of the future-mentioned "stop before you're done". Add that to the skills used to compose this one.
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