Edward Ardizzone described ‘finding a way’ to draw things through the process of drawing: working it out on paper.
Digital drawing feels surprisingly different to regular pen/pencil on paper. It’s thrilling and frustrating in the way of learning a new thing.
I gave myself 10 mins to draw on Friday morning. Eve, photographed last summer in Musee D’ Orsay, titled something like ‘Eve after the Peach’, love that the fruit is a peach in this piece. Love her anguished human expression and the malicious muscular-tube of a snake languidly draped behind her. The rules to draw by: No rubbing out, just draw. Procreate has a ‘line stabilisation’ preset, which means if you rest your pencil at the end of a line, the line fussily straightens itself. You can change this preset of course, I’m quite enjoying the limitation: no hovering about, move quickly through the process… quick lines, quick decisions, see what happens!
Oh how I grapple: Being able to watch your wobbly steps back in an action replay - what’s not to like?
Another preset in Procreate is the sneaky little video it takes of your process: I notice that after all the lessons and decades honing skills, sifting and seeking, learning stepped processes and ‘proper ways’ of drawing, I just draw how I draw, how I have drawn since being little and figuring out how to put something down on paper. There is something so unexpectedly homecoming about that discovery made through the modern and alien to me process of digital drawing.
This week I zoomed in on the project I want to share with you at the end of this month. It’s hard to resist sharing more here, but I will. A lot of progress happened amongst the drawing in the last several days - this everyday challenge continues to lead me to the
GOOD STUFF
SHE is my proudest moment of this week. She’s taken a long time to get to, so I want to pause with her a moment before the next round of this challenge shows me the things it has to teach me next week.
Can’t wait to share again!
See you back here next week x
Boobs, Snake Eyes, Peach