Hi everyone!
I come back today to show you my quick sketching session. I'm trying to follow a classic training again, maybe this can be considered as a resolution for 2024 😁
This session was about quick sketches - it means that I do 1 minute sketches of people where we only have to see the essential, the emotion of the pose. And it is a really hard exercise for me.
Do you remember when you were in class and your teacher gave you an exercise and you just didn't know what to do?
I feel like that with gesture drawing, I've heard a lot of good advice from masters, and if I understand the theory, I have a really hard time with the practice.
All my artistic life I have drawn with lines, with contours. And I'm pretty good at it, because I come from realistic drawing - I didn't care about understanding my subject, I just wanted to reproduce the photo as faithfully as possible, pixel by pixel. And that gives me a pretty superficial approach to studying references. I always saw my models as lines, not as what they really are, why they pose like that, what do I feel when I see them and how can I translate that?
So that is the challenge of quick sketching. To capture the essence of a person, an attitude, and be able to translate it, not perfectly, but in a personal and emotional way.
Okay, that sounds good. But how do I do it? How can I draw instinctively after 15 years of meticulousness, how can I just feel emotions and let go when I've always been in control?
I think it comes with practice. Since I have to draw instinctively, I suppose it is not an easy thing to explain, it has to come from me.
Hope you will like it.
See you soon for more creations! 😊
