Figure Drawings

November 15, 2012

Our drawing session at the beginning of class started off with drawing the feeling of doing something. first it was draw the feeling of running through a hail storm and then the feeling of going through a field of ripe berries and stopping to pick berries as you go. That was just markings on the page.

After that we used match sticks and broke them into pieces. We used the pieces to form stick figures and put tracing paper over top. We colored over the figures using graphite sticks. It was hard to get the stick figures to stay still while we coloured over them but having them move a bit gave them the look of motion.
That was just markings on the page. The next thing we had to draw was figures using cursive lines followed by figures drawn using scribble. These weren't so hard to get into and looked like people.

The last thing we were drawing was using charcoal and our hands. We had to get our fingers covered in charcoal and make a figure. We were encouraged to not just make lines on a page. I had a hard time getting out of my comfort zone and not making lines but in the end my hands got covered in charcoal and I had fun rubbing charcoal all over a piece of paper. It did look kind of like a face and I would happily do it again.