Tag: pencil drawing

When you can’t write….

~ Meg ~ 49 Comments

It seems I have a short attention span. Writing continuously for the past three days on my novel has already taken its toll. But in the spirit of remaining creative and yet giving the writing a rest, I picked up the pencils to sketch. I’m still struggling with symmetry and I don’t have the angles quite right, but it’s an improvement I think… Voila:

And here’s the photo I copied:

Meret Oppenheim 1934, Man Ray

Sketching from a photograph

~ Meg ~ 30 Comments

I have discovered that my sketching definitely goes better when I have something to copy. A few weeks back, I sketched a photo I took of seagulls on the beach. Since then I made a sketch of a Marcel Duchamp photo which I wasn’t super thrilled with, but the following sketch: Man Ray’s 1931 photograph – Fleurs, turned out much better.