When drawing more than one person using the blind contour drawing technique,* concentrating on the each person separately can result in the capture of gesture and position. Placing the pen point appropriately for the second figure can set up intimacy between the two subjects. The overlap is not important. *Drawing without looking at the […]
Meanwhile, in a secluded corner of Flatland, on an elevated plane…
The perils of blind drawing.
This is a bumble bee. I’ve seen bumble bees before. It is actually a bit smaller than the bee I saw the other day (Giant Bee Getting Pollen Shower from Passionfruit). Here is honey bee visiting the same passionfruit flower.
This bee was as big as the flower! It could barely fit under the passionfruit flower pollen shower head. And it was just coated with yellow powder. (Compare the size of this bee to the one pictured here: This is How a Bee Approaches a Passionfruit Flower.) Here is a side view of these pollen […]
This seems like an abstract sketch, but it isn’t. It is an action drawing. The man in the scooter was on his way out of the waiting room and I had to detail different parts of him from different angles as he went by.
