"Nothing is more intimidating to a beginning drawing student - or to many experienced artist for that matter - than a clean, white, unmarred piece of drawing paper. One way to get around that is just to start drawing - boldly, freely, confidently. For an exercise in getting used to drawing materials and overcoming the intimidation of unmarked paper, lay out a sheet of pristine whiteness and take your pencil in hand."
She instructs to make lines and patters on the paper freely, vertical, horizontal, and diagonal, just play with the paper and make lines, get comfortable with the materials. I came up with this...
Just kinda lining in and squiggling around on the page. It was kinda nice just to dedicate a page to randomness and did help to ease the blank-paper-syndrome. This was the last project for chapter 1.So then I start to read into chapter 2, Expressing Yourself in Drawing: The Nonverbal Language of Art, and much of what Betty is saying is clicking in my head. Shes giving different examples of signatures to look at and ways to think about them. I am not going to be posting the signature exercise she instructs but it was useful for getting a "feel for the expressive quality in lines." In fact, just after doing the project a lady sat down next to me and started reading a book, after receiving her permission I sketched this out, this was not part of the book instruction but is in the sketchbook I dedicated to DOTRSOTB.
That was all I got out of Chapter 2 of the book. The next Chapter, Your Brain: The Right and Left of it, is up next and I'll be posting on it soon.
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