Overall, I enjoyed these exercises. It was interesting to push through and do ones that I knew I wouldn’t like. It’s in doing this that we grow, right? I tried different things and most importantly, got back into sketching without having to give it too much thought. I appreciate the prompts so I didn’t have to try to think of things myself.

Sketchbook - image 1 - student project

Not my fave, just a mug I had used. I really enjoyed doing this quickly.

Sketchbook - image 2 - student project

Left handed sketch - Feel I was very hesitant to draw, partially because it was my left hand, partially because of the subject matter. It’s not quite enjoyable to draw my chemo egg head.

Sketchbook - image 3 - student project

Loved this exercise, it was fun and playful. It was easy for me to draw and not worry about proportion.

Sketchbook - image 4 - student project

While doing this I felt these looked more like blobs, but was comfortable with the lose sketchiness needed for this one.

Sketchbook - image 5 - student project

Rather than draw myself in a spook I made my daughter hold the spoon and I snapped a picture of her reflection on the serving spoon. The upside down one was actually harder because of the drastic distortions on the back. The right side up one was distorted just enough that I didn’t worry about it looking like my daughter, just blocked in where I saw the darkest colours and went from there.

Sketchbook - image 6 - student project

I laughed when I saw a comparison of these two. Just goes to show that a reference, regardless on if you choose to use it for all the details or just use it for a basic likeness really helps.

Sketchbook - image 7 - student project

What a fun playful exercise.

Sketchbook - image 8 - student project

This one, along with the left handed self portrait, was my least favourite. I’m all about loose, but I just felt this was so unrecognizable, and I didn’t enjoy this one. BUT I still did it!

Sketchbook - image 9 - student project

fun and playful.

Brianne Boyd

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