Today I decided to go check out a ‘sketch club’ thing. I had to bring my own art supplies and just do whatever with whatever was presented to us.
I knew I would only get so many minutes to draw before the model moved, but I didn’t realise how quickly the minutes was when your brain wants to get details right. You just can’t do details. Like faces or fabric folds. I learnt that the hard way.
Here’s a few of my first attempts. There were a few more with scribbles through them like the middle image from frustration. Haha.
After trying and failing to sketch realistically, I decided to play with the shapes I could see the bodies make. Btw, all models were fully clothed.
Then after taking a break and deciding to just do whatever first came to my mind, I came up with these two to finish off the session. The hare-person actually started out as a woman with a weird paper hat. And the last one for the day was playing with light and shadow whilst restricting myself to moving my pencil side to side only.
So that was a bit of fun in the end, even if the first half was definitely not fun. Haha. I think I’ll have to go to sketch club again.
It was interesting to see what I could produce when restricted to three minutes. A mess mostly, but also exploration of ability and imagination.
Now To Morrow 