Hey everyone! It’s March! 2025! I’m considerably shocked to notice that is the ninth yr of #OneWeek100People. This implies *subsequent* yr is form of an enormous deal.
There’s very very only a few issues in life I’ve suck with for greater than ten years – apart from drawing.
Yearly my drawings get extra attention-grabbing to me, however tougher and tougher for me to clarify what I’m doing.
“I simply paint them?”
So: what can I say about this one?
Colour Blocks: Each main form within the sketch is one colour, however all the colours are soiled’ed up with the neighboring colours.
Draw with the Edges: The background form cuts across the white faces – moist on dry – in order that they have a razor edge. The coloured form is drawing the top in unfavorable. The bizarre orange dots within the background are solely there so I can get away with flagging his head in shiny orange. It makes it appear like the orange is on function.
Work Quick for Mixing: I work quick in order that shapes can bleed into one another ( her pant leg as an example ). However I don’t let essential edges contact; like between his and her jackets. If that one edge had smudged you lose the overlapping figures.
Reserved Whites: This yr was utilizing a pleasant massive brush. I don’t know, like a #10 spherical? Male Pinky Finger Sized. It’s enjoyable as a result of it’s so quick, it maintain a lot paint, and you must make the reserved whites by intuition. I consider the whites as inside edges. The white on his shoulder is a reasonably nice mark – it reveals you what’s an higher floor, nevertheless it additionally signifies the place his cumbersome jacket sleeve insets into the shoulder, and it attracts the form of his hood. All the opposite small whites in his torso are doing related work, describing folds within the jacket sleeve. Undecided in the event you can inform; however they’re NOT drawn into the sketch. I define shadow shapes within the sketch, however I attempt to not define highlights anymore. A spotlight with a line round it doesn’t work!
We simply had a 125 yr file snowstorm in Montreal; so this yr it’s going to be all metro (subway) drawings. There’s next-to-nobody on the road; no one is doing any actions outdoors. You possibly can barely stroll on the sidewalks downtown. So this yr prepare for lots of people-on-their-phones 🙂
By the way in which – who’s your favourite subway rider at the moment? And why is it that tremendous fellow within the fedora and shades. That man introduced the funk!
