30 Days/ 300 Figures

Premise:
Sharon over at ArtBySaw just finished a project she titled 50 Cars/50 Days. I know, her title creativity is genius. Anyway, she wanted to start something else and she came up with 30 Days/300 Figures. I believe she changed the title of it, but whatever. I jumped on the bandwagon and here we go….

Day 1.
It’s taking me a bit to get into the groove of gestures. I started out doing 5 minute gestures, but it seems a bit much. Maybe if I was doing watercolor because then I would need time for the painting to dry. As it is I am using a smallish notebook (one that I bought in Santa Fe, it’s pretty) and I am using pencil. I am relearning everything my life drawing 101 teacher told us as I go.

I started a day late so this week I only have 4 days, but I am doing 12 gestures a day instead of 10. (10 gestures 5 days a week x 30 days = 300 figures)

Day 2
The first day I used an ebook, but I quickly became bored so I switched to the book that I have. I am continuing to loosen up.

Day 3
If a gesture is not going to go the way I want it I do erase it and start over. I know I should get rid of the eraser, but my sketchbook is so nice that I don’t want really ugly sketches in it…just slightly ugly.

Day 4
I was really able to loosen up on the fourth day. I was always told that for gestures, because they are so fast, you need to get to the important part of the pose right away. On these two pages I was able to let myself leave a good chunk of the figure out in order to focus on the important parts and to do it much faster than the other 3 days.

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Note: Originally posted on 10/9/09 at blog.limitedpalette.com