Here’s yesterday’s sketch:
One of my assigments for the drawing class is to keep a sketch diary and make one entry per day. It can be of anything I want and I can use any medium I want. I gotta say, this beats any other homework assignment I’ve ever gotten.
I was caught off guard on Tueday in class. In my world of painting, I deal with color, shapes, composition, narative, and texture. Right now in drawing class, we are drawing still lifes accurately and worrying about things like measurement and ratio. I hadn’t realised until me teacher mentioned something about the perspective in my drawing that not only am I uninterested in accurate representations of things, I actually have a hard time making my brain draw them accurately. I seem to take an object and anthropomorphasize it in my brain before I even start to draw it. This is great for my paintings, it’s what I want to achieve, but a little exercize in accuracy and measurement will probably make me a better painter. I’ll have more control over my inaccuracies! I learned this stuff years ago and I do still use the same techniques to a degree, but I haven’t actively and consciously used them since, oooooh, 1988?
If I were to draw the green chair in perfect perspective, taking into account accurate representation on ratio and such, it would just look like a rendering of a chair. Because I’ve skewed things a bit, it (hopefully) has a more humanistic quality.