Mini Drawing Spark

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After years of teaching illustration I found that the one thing most people struggle with is to find time, ideas of what to draw and how to draw. Well, your searching days are over ;-) as I will provide you with little drawing tips and tricks!

I'll post a drawing tip, idea or suggestion regularly on the blog, facebook and instagram. It comes with the hashtag: #minidrawingspark , which you can add whenever you share your mini drawing spark results (please do, I'd love to see what your making!).

Let's start with the first!

To loosen things up a bit (read: to tackle that inner critic), there's a fun technique you can practice. It's called: blind contour drawing (or hand-eye coordination drawing).

What you do is: take a object (start with a simple thing like a mug or teapot) and place it on front of you. Then choose a point to start and draw the contour of the object by following the outline with your eyes and at the same time follow with your pencil. Key is not to look at your paper, only at the object and keep your pencil on the paper (making one steady line).
Try a few times, and if you got the hand of it, start adding inner shapes as well (still without lifting your pencil from the paper, you follow lines back and forth).

This is a great way to practice to look closely to objects and learn how to draw them. Because you are not allowed to look at the paper, you can not critique the process. The drawing can be wobbely, strange and funny but that is what it's supposed to be. When you practice this often, you'll notice you get better at it. At that stage you can start looking at the object now and then and modify your line along the way.

Good luck, have fun and share!


2 comments:

  1. Thanks Lariella! I'm very curious about what you'll make of the drawing spark ;-)

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