New approaches to drawing.
I haven’t drawn for ages and ages. Drawing has become defunct in my practice, I rely on photography and writing. I’ve been looking for a new way of approaching drawing, something to make it relevant again.
I found a good book, it had a few projects whereby a typical aspect of the process of drawing was altered in some way. Most of these projects were familiar from my B.A, but I hadn’t tried them for a while. So for instance, drawing: from memory, with two pencils tied together, from a distance, without taking your eyes of the subject, with the other hand, by feeling the subject, etc.
Still, it was a bit of a revelation, it made me look at drawing with a new perspective. The most interesting approach was drawing with your eyes closed and feeling the subject. So that’s what this drawing here is – by feeling every aspect of my face I made marks to describe what I could feel. Eyelashes, mouth.
What was interesting was that it loosened up my hand, each mark was descriptive, but more essentially it was free since I did not have to consider what the image I was making looked like.
Imagine doing this with a life drawing, urgh! You’d have to be either brave or know them well!
