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| July Challenge Day 27 27 July 2014 Graphite Pencil Winsor & Newton A4 Heavy Weight Sketch Book 21.0cm x 29.7cm (8.25" x 11.75") |
These are the last few sketches from the July sketching challenge - my task was to sketch from life for exactly 30 minutes on each day in July.
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| July Challenge Day 28 - Sketch 1 28 July 2014 Graphite Pencil Winsor & Newton A4 Heavy Weight Sketch Book 21.0cm x 29.7cm (8.25" x 11.75") |
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| July Challenge Day 28 - Sketch 2 28 July 2014 Graphite Pencil Winsor & Newton A4 Heavy Weight Sketch Book 21.0cm x 29.7cm (8.25" x 11.75") |
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| July Challenge Day 28 - Sketch 3 28 July 2014 Graphite Pencil Winsor & Newton A4 Heavy Weight Sketch Book 21.0cm x 29.7cm (8.25" x 11.75") |
It’s been an interesting experiment. Drawing every day was bound to have a benefit, but the 30 minute time limit was unexpectedly important.
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| July Challenge Day 29 29 July 2014 Graphite Pencil Winsor & Newton A4 Heavy Weight Sketch Book 21.0cm x 29.7cm (8.25" x 11.75") |
The first advantage is that it’s not very long. It is easy for the “it’s only half an hour” argument to win in the internal dialogue about what to do today.
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| July Challenge Day 30 30 July 2014 Graphite Pencil Winsor & Newton A4 Heavy Weight Sketch Book 21.0cm x 29.7cm (8.25" x 11.75") |
The other benefit is it forced me to put more trust in my eyes to estimate size and alignments. I tend to spend time trying to measure relative proportions and angles by holding a pencil at arm’s length. Thirty minutes doesn't allow much time for this, so on many of the drawings I put my faith in my instincts and just winged it – this has been liberating and nerve wracking in equal measures.
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| Where's the Biscuit? July Challenge Day 31 31 July 2014 Graphite Pencil Winsor & Newton A4 Heavy Weight Sketch Book 29.7cm x 21.0cm (11.75" x 8.25") |
I aim to continue drawing every day, but I am relaxing the 30 minute rule - 5 minutes is good enough and so is 5 hours.
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