glasses | gecko
Last week I came across an interesting drawing exercise at Mithi's Creative Journey (via Suzanne over at AN [OPEN] SKETCHBOOK) and knew I had to try it out.
The point of the exercise is to recognize the importance of drawing as a medium for working out ideas - visualizing forms which, through a process of editing / refining, become more removed from their intial source material. Basically you start out with two objects (I used my glasses and a ceramic gecko) and work on a series of drawings, using formal methods and combining elements to end with a final four.
This is my set:
First 16 quick line drawings of my glasses and then another 16 of a ceramic gecko:
Next, 64 quick drawings based on the original 16 - using the formal methods of exaggerating, distorting, simplifying, enlarging, reducing, repeating, rotating, combining, cross-referencing, and layering. Glasses first, gecko second:
Next use the formal methods again to make a single set of 32 new drawings, combining the glasses and gecko drawings:
Refine again to 16:
This time, paying more attention to layout, negative spaces, blocking out spaces, etc., reduce to 8:
and FINALLY refine and reduce to four final "complete" drawings:
It was really fun watching the transition from those initial simple drawings to the final four. Highly recommended!
The point of the exercise is to recognize the importance of drawing as a medium for working out ideas - visualizing forms which, through a process of editing / refining, become more removed from their intial source material. Basically you start out with two objects (I used my glasses and a ceramic gecko) and work on a series of drawings, using formal methods and combining elements to end with a final four.
This is my set:
First 16 quick line drawings of my glasses and then another 16 of a ceramic gecko:
Next, 64 quick drawings based on the original 16 - using the formal methods of exaggerating, distorting, simplifying, enlarging, reducing, repeating, rotating, combining, cross-referencing, and layering. Glasses first, gecko second:
Next use the formal methods again to make a single set of 32 new drawings, combining the glasses and gecko drawings:
Refine again to 16:
This time, paying more attention to layout, negative spaces, blocking out spaces, etc., reduce to 8:
and FINALLY refine and reduce to four final "complete" drawings:
It was really fun watching the transition from those initial simple drawings to the final four. Highly recommended!
posted by heather lorin at 12:22 PM
4 Comments:
Nice!!!!! No wonder it took you a while...you did the whole thing! I've been taking shortcuts! I really enjoy seeing the whole process! Great work!!!!!
Thanks! The process was pretty amazing. I found I had some mental blocks going from sixteen to eight and then again going from eight to four, but each time I worked through them and was really happy with the results.
so fun! now to find the time to give it a try...
Wow this is brilliant. It must have taken ages! You've got some really great results though and as Suzanne says it's really good to see the whole process.
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