Assignment #22: Go to the Library

July 10, 2008 in Uncategorized | Tags: Assignments

Go to your library and pick out a few unlikely magazines, ones you wouldn’t normally choose or that hold no interest for you. Using Sharpie and paper, draw faces you see. Try to keep your hand loose and sketchy… look more at the image in the magazine than your drawing.

The above men are from Business Week; the gentlemen and page below is from Farming Today (or some such thing… let me check on that!).

click photos to enlarge!

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What are “Assignments”? They are mini tutorials of drawing exercises I do myself. I hope you will try some of them… drawing is a blast!!!

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July 10, 2008 at 5:24 pm

Tricia/LazyTcrochet

I don’t have talent for drawing. I try to sketch my designs, but always use pencil. Do you always use a sharpie? My son is very much into drawing. He’s 13 and loves webcomics. I’d love to steer him in the right direction from here.

July 10, 2008 at 5:27 pm

Sara

my friend actually does that all the time, but he gives them horns..or scales haha.

July 10, 2008 at 5:30 pm

carlasonheim

Tricia: When I teach my classes, I always have them use Sharpies to start. Why? Because they can’t erase… and are concentrating more on DRAWING than ERASING.

I would say, though, to let your son do whatever he wants… pencil, ballpoint pen, Sharpie, etc. At this point he should just enjoy it and PRACTICE!! You might want to get some anime drawing books or other references of things that interest him from the library and have them lying around… also, tracing paper! He can trace designs and this will help his “mind” remember.

Sara: Haha! Great idea!

July 10, 2008 at 6:26 pm

Jane Moore Houghton

These are great Carla!
Maybe you should put these ideas together and contact a publisher my friend – I think you’ve got something here!
BTW – I love love love the bird on the junk mail piece – love that idea – love it all (okay, I’ve used my quota of the word love for the day…:-) )
wish I could afford to join the art retreat
I think all of us groovy girls (as I like to call all us like-minded artist women) should meet at a b&b somewhere in the middle of the country and just hang out!
One last thought on Sharpie pens – my mother never was without a black sharpie and a pack of 3×5 cards – we buried her with some! One that she wrote and that I still have and treasure says, “Have a good day and know that you are loved” … she left it for me one day tucked inside a book.
peace-
J