Many months ago I purchased Carla Sonheim's
Drawing Lab for Mixed-Media Artists: 52 Creative Exercises to Make Drawing Fun. It's filled with some excellent ideas for improving your drawing skills and useful if you need to get past a creative block. It's organized as a series of exercises, many of them fairly short in duration. I started one of the exercises when I purchased the book, but never got around to finishing it. Today I went ahead and finished the painting/drawing because I wanted to use some new watercolor pencils I purchased last weekend. Here is the result. I like that the exercise freed up the movement in my drawing, as I have a tendency to draw animals in the same position. What I don't like is that it's obviously off as far as perspective--part of the nature of the exercise, as I tried to stay as close to the watercolor washes as possible.
Many months ago I purchased Carla Sonheim's Drawing Lab for Mixed-Media Artists: 52 Creative Exercises to Make Drawing Fun. It's filled with some excellent ideas for improving your drawing skills and useful if you need to get past a creative block. It's organized as a series of exercises, many of them fairly short in duration. I started one of the exercises when I purchased the book, but never got around to finishing it. Today I went ahead and finished the painting/drawing because I wanted to use some new watercolor pencils I purchased last weekend. Here is the result. I like that the exercise freed up the movement in my drawing, as I have a tendency to draw animals in the same position. What I don't like is that it's obviously off as far as perspective--part of the nature of the exercise, as I tried to stay as close to the watercolor washes as possible. 