This is the old 90/10 exercise. You may be familiar with it, but I am really starting to love it. For those of you who are learning, the 90/10 exercise is simple. Count to 9 while looking at the subject and when I get to 10 I look at my paper.
Try it out.
About a week ago I had a few posts about what to do when you were stuck in a drawing rut (
post 1,
post 2,
post 3). And it all ended with me writing a little
creative process essay. A few of you decided to join in.
The photos below have the credits to the artist directly beneath them. My favorite was the AKIRA inspired drawing by
Evan Tedlock.
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| Dan Buck |
It's fun to see everyone else's experiments.
ReplyDeleteQuestion about this 90/10 thing, though. Do you just draw straight through after staring at the reference, or do you spend one second drawing and then return to 9 seconds of looking? I've not heard of this one and am a bit confused.
I always have drawn the whole 10 seconds. But the way you proposed sounds equally interesting. I might have a try at it that way.
ReplyDeleteAHA! I see, so it's like a blind contour drawing but with 1 second non-blind then. Gotcha, gotcha. Good stuff. I always found blind contour drawing to be fascinating.
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