Blind Sketch #8

As you can see he is still missing an arm.

I have added to the right hand side of my blog – right near the bottom, a blog roll for some other artists blogs that I follow.

The artists are all of different abilities and the main reason I have chosen to follow them is I find their commentary refreshing and honest.

Its not very prominent at the moment, If someone knows of a good wordpress plug in for blogrolls let us know, drop us a comment.

Blind Sketch #7

Yet to replace my Manikin so he is still missing one arm. When I  do finally get around to replacing it, may go for a hand manikin

Blind sketch #6

Noooo! the right arm fell of my Manikin as I went to draw it this morning. It has served us well and may it rest in peace.

One thing I would like to use this space to say, is I have been reading quite a few drawing blogs recently. Both people who are learning to draw and people giving out instruction. There seems to be an awful lot made of this blind sketching and as it reads, a lot of it seems pseudo science.

Reason I do it , as with any other warm up excercise is to loosen up the hand a bit before diving into a drawing and the other thing is trying to improve hand eye co-ordination and that’s it.

Some of these posts that go on 400 words about right hand side of the brain malarkey etc , just seems to be nonsense and making something more complex than It actually is.  The sad thing is, I have read blog posts from people drawing that they are worried they are not engaging there right brains enough, I kid thee not.

Blind Sketching  = Loosen up hand , improve eye hand co-ordination – thats it.

My two pence.

Blind Sketch #5

I am really enjoying thias as an excecise as the results seem to make no friggin sense!

I think when I get enough of these, may have to put them in some sort of morphing type animation.

In other news, where I mentioned about Yves Tanguy in my post about the ossicles – stapes , for those of you in Leeds, in the Henry Moore Institute, there is currently one of his paintings which will be there till January 2010 as part of their sculpture in painting exhibition which is well worth checking out.

Blind Sketch #4

Mmm, not as bad as last time, though cannot say overall whether this is an improvement or not… time will tale.

Blind Sketch #3

Eek !

I don’t think my last two blind sketch attempts have been that bad, but this one is all over the place.

So the question is, whether the first two were just ‘blind luck’ or this one is freakishly out of place.

Time will tell.

Blind Sketch Manikin

Another go at a blind sketch and the first post on wordpress. I am hoping that the move has made searching the site a bit more easier and a bit more user friendly. I am unsure if i will stick with this theme, but it will do for the time doing.

I am currently working my way slowly back through the posts to tidy them up a bit , if you spot any errors then let me know

Once again using my trusted manikin as a model and I will track these sketches over the next few months.

In other news, moving this blog over to wordpress hosting soon, if you are reading this, and its already on wordpress. Any problems jsut shout.