Drawn to Life - Volume 2

65 Look, This Is What I Saw

Again, sorry if I get too wordy in presenting some of my ideas. A good drawing is summed up in the mind in a flash, but to explain how to arrive at that kind of visual statement takes, sometimes, many words.

Take for instance this sketch of Vicky Jo, as she powders her nose. The student’s sketch is rather static as if the girl was doing it for the first time. In my sketch I first opened up the “stage” so you see both shoulders and consequently some third dimensional negative space. I angled her right forearm to appear to move toward the nose, intensifying the activity in that area — the thing she is concerned with. The image in the mirror, though, is the center of interest. Notice in the student’s drawing the spacing ...