Assignment #7 from “Drawing Lab: A Fun and Silly Art Kit“
Hi!
Today’s Lab is from a British guest artist, Sarah Wilde. Sarah has the most wonderful sketchbooks filled with drawings of people in coffee shops. Reminiscent of blind contour drawings (tomorrow’s lesson!), Sara gives tips on how to do these “Direct-Response Drawings,” which start out as blind contours but are drawn from a distance and focus on the shape and form of the subject (rather than every curve and bump).
She writes, “Direct-response drawings are both process and product for me. Long term, [these drawings] have improved my overall drawing immensely; they have also proved fertile ground for ideas for other things. But the end result also pleases me. I like looking at these drawings.”
The above gentleman was drawn several days ago at a coffee shop!
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Today’s winner will be picked at 6pm PST Monday, 11/24.
And today’s winner is Lynn, #8!
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Thanks again for the fun!
This looks like an interesting exercise. I’m always afraid that people will react negatively if they see you sketching them so I’ve been reluctant to try. Thanks for these great examples of the labs in your book!
Fingers crossed! I’d love to win!!!!
Thank you for another chance! This art teacher neeeeeeeeds this so bad!!!
Congratulations to all those lucky winners. As I don’t drink coffee I rarely frequent coffee shops, but am happy to draw at the beach. Sometimes you see the most amusing sights….easily distorted with a bit of practice I’ll bet.
Whoo Hoo…another chance to win the kit. I’m still hoping and I’m certainly enjoying these tutorials.
What a fun idea…fingers and toes crossed!!!
this is something I should spend more time doing!
Another chance to win – oh so hopeful 🙂
This is interesting. I really hope to win so I can finally move past the perfection fear & paralysis. I really want to start creating
All fingers crossed in the hopes of a chance to receive the Drawing Lab.
Today’s the day. I can feel it – I’m going to win! Nothing wrong with a little positivity 🙂
Thanks for the opportunity.
Very interesting drawing!
Please enter me in your give away. Thanks!
Another great lesson!
Hello Folks – I’M working myself up to the top: No. 15 today! Yes, I haven’t forgotten about the drawing lab kit! I would love to win it!
LoVe these drawings! Carla, thank you for the giveaways and for being an awesome and fun teacher.
Just drew adirect-response drawing of my unsuspecting husband sitting on the couch with his computer! haha! hope to win!
here’s hoping! 🙂
I love the quick, airy look of the coffee shop drawing!! Carla’s work is always a huge inspiration to me. Her work helps me to think outside the box, and to ENJOY the process!
Oh, yes, please! Pick me, pick me, pick me!!
Voilà une bonne manière de se laisser dessiner…
Merci
Bonne journée
Interesting. I don’t go to coffee shops often.
Thanks for the opportunity to enter this drawing! Good luck with the sales on this fun kit!
Another great idea to stretch drawing muscles
Another good drawing lab lesson. The assignments help pull me in to a “doing” creative mode and away from all the “thinking”. Even if we are not winning the actual Drawing Lab Kit, this process has been a lab of its own………….. Thanks.
Love these assignments, so much fun. Can’t wait to get to my local coffee shop and try the direct response drawings.
These are fun to do. Need to do more of them. Thanks for chance to win.
Not sure if I’d be brave enough to draw in public!!!
Oh that’s a great idea, too! I’ m always a little shy drawing other people. But perhaps I should’nt… I will try with the kit…. Will I have a chance?
maybe this time… 🙂
i like coffee .. i like drawing .. i like drawing in coffee shops
Thanks again for a new chance!
It would be great to win a kit, but even without winning, these little ‘exercises’ are so much fun, love it …… have to try myself.
so fun, i love this exercise!
How great to have another chance to win. Thank you.,
Would love to give your kit to a friend! 🙂
It would be great to win. But I enjoy the exercise anyway.
Interesting exercise…
i like to look at your post every day!! thanks! and … : please pick me …
I’m not quite sure I understand this exercise… Is it or is it not blind contour drawing? Or maybe at the crossroads between blind contour and one-liners? Anyway, all these exercises really sound fun! Thanks for sharing!
Once more , a fun exercise … and a chance to win !
Oh, another chance to win….
Thanks for all the chances to win Carla and the exercises are fun too!
Would so much love to win this
Simply love these!
would be a lovely addition to my mixed media 🙂
Very English! I suppose!
What a fun exercise! I have actually done this in church, drawing profiles of adults and children.
I love Drawing Lab!
I am still trying. I want to win.
yo también!!
you are so brave drawing someone in public I just would not have the confidence
Also still trying… 🙂
I do this in restaurants too sometimes – together with my son. Draw the table and/or draw people around us. Fun -thanks to Carla’s classes.
love this one!
This is adorable!
In Hong Kong, it is not that easy or comfortable to draw in a coffee shop coz we don’t have many coffee shops and they are usually very crowded and noisy and you might have to share your table with some other strangers!
I should definitely try this!
lovely to meet a new artist, thank you Carla.
Yeahhhh…. for another chance to win! 😀
Thank you so much Carla for your inspiration ❤
Another fun idea…and another great chance to win! Thank you!
Thanks again!
This would be a wonderful gift for my niece who is a great artist!
I haven’t had a chance to check your blog (or do much of anything else) since my husband had a stroke two weeks ago. This would be fun to win, for when I have time to return to drawing again. Thank you, Carla.
Just found your blog and I love it! Thanks for the fab giveaway! I’d love to win!
Good Morning from the east coast. What a great way to start a new week. Thanks!!!
Oh I’d love a chance to win this x
Looks like lots of fun.love to win this
Love the loose, squiggly drawing lines on this dude!
I find drawing in public a little intimidating. Maybe I’ll watch a movie with a coffee sho scene and draw that first.
mybe i’m alway a dax behind. i like the hint for voffe shop drawing – and would like to have a drawing lb kid :))
This looks like so much fun!
This does look like fun. Even better, its a reason to slow down and observe what is around you and live in the moment. Sure would like to win.
Well I’m off to the coffe shop and some fun. Thanks.
coffee shop … GREAT idea … people sit still there for longer periods of time.
I get a little shy about attempting to draw others in public, never had the guts to do it.
Looks like a challenge! Thanks!
I’m gonna win this time. 🙂
Looks like fun. Would love to win a free copy!
Thanks for the great idea!
thans again! lovely
Pick me, pick me! : ) love to win your book. Thanks for the opportunity Carla.
Love your art attitude.
How fun! Oh, and I’d love to win the dlk:)
Enjoy your site so much! I am very interested in what people “project” by the way they look !! Thanks! Jmaierriverview@yahoo.com
day8 – I like looking at coffee shop drawings too 🙂
Looks like I’m going to hit the coffee shop today:)
Fingers crossed
Time is running out – but I would still like to win!
I’m traine again ! Thanks Carla
I’m trying again ! Thanks Carla
This lab looks like so much fun! I love the example drawing!!
Such great exercises and full of surprises! Thanks for sharing!
Still hoping! Thanks for another fun exercise!
As always your posts get me itching to create!
Looks like fun, can’t wait to try some coffee shop drawings!
I have always wanted to sit and sketch in a public place – I need to get rid of that inner fear critic!
What fun. Sure hope I win this one.
ThaNk you for all of these drawing ideas…bea
I just love this idea. 😉
PLEEAAASSSSEEEEE could I win the drawing kit!!!! I love your style of teaching drawing! 😉
Interesting story about Coffee Shop Drawings.
This has been sooo much fun – thank you – still in love with the Picasso puppy : )
Blessings & HAPPY THANKSGIVING to you and yours – Sandra in AZ : )
Love it – I try again
Cool. Thanks for the chance.
Another opportunity to win!!! Yeahhhh!
STill hoping to enjoy this surprise gift…What fun it will be for during Christmas break with the kids!
Great ideas!
Another chance to win one of your give-aways! Yeah! I have turned some friends on to your classes and would love to give this gift to one of them as a “nudge.” Thanks, Carla, for the opportunity to spawn another artist.
I will practice all these lessons, thank you.
Coffee shop drawing and writing is the best!
Loving the coffee shop drawing, I’ll give this a try. Thanks for the opportunity to win!
Looks like my husband. I’d love to win this. thanks.
Love this! Can’t wait to try this out!
more fun and inspiration…. would love this giveaway. Thank you for the opportunity! Liz in Portland
This looks like a fun exercise! Thanks for another chance to win!
I have spend a lot of time in hospitals and doctor’s offices and do something similar to this while waiting….I like this process. thanks for another chance to win.
This “direct” line drawing definitely looks English. 🙂 and I am on cloud 9 after winning # 3.. These pages you have shared have been great and I can hardly wait to play in the Lab itself.
Thank you sooooooo much Carla. Hugs
I love drawing in bed and in coffee shops…
I’m off to Starbucks to try this out!
I still would like to win 🎨
This is so exciting and also so generous of you to do this during the holiday season. I have been wanting to get your book for so long and what a great idea to make it into a kit! Yay!
Well this reminds me of some British official.
Wonderful and fun idea. Your book made into a kit is a delightful idea. Thanks!
What a great guy!!!!! I love him.
I would so much like to win.
Count me in – love this style.
Love your attitude!
I love the Direct Response Drawing… this is what I want to learn, just every day ordinary things to bring joy to my life…
I would love to win!
pick me ! pick me ! pick me !
Fun idea to try! Thanx!
Did this last week at a meeting to zone out and relax for a while… (not my meeting, Tony’s!) – totally worked! Wonderful to see all these exercises and revisit Drawing Lab again!
lost track of the days but think I can still enter for today?! This is fun!
This is not easy but I’ try.
I am almost too late, but I have been trying. Life around here is chaotic, so that is life.
Love coffee so makes sense that I’m reading this post at the cafe!
Thanks for another chance to win your giveaway, Carla!
This exercise is the scariest for me…sketching in public-yikes!
this type of drawing is oddly difficult for me and ridiculously pleasing–thanks for the excellent assignment!
Carla, you are so inspiring!
I like the idea of contour drawing from a distance. I definitely will try this next time I take a coffee break…..wait, I don’t drink coffee! Well, hot chocolate then.
And another wonderful project to try…..
Carla and Sarah,
Love this drawing. Blind contour is one of, if not my most favourite way to draw.
K