Sketches in the field

Blind contour drawing at station

Blind contour drawing at Bingo entrance

Blind contour drawing at station

Today I got started on my quick drawings of people.  Off to local town on a Sunday afternoon with a small sketchbook and ink pen for about 45 minutes 

Observations:

• difficult to find somewhere to draw without embarassing anyone including myself
• people VERY quickly sense that they are being drawn
• I am so used to working with a camera that this feels new
• People usually move quickly, eventually I settled for fast blind contour drawing as the best technique and also as practice for this approach  
• This worked and I enjoyed it
• These sketches can be reviewed and reworked afterwards and the anatomy thought through, most important is to get the energy and meaning in.-
• Very different drawing people from horses, I suppose their body language is obscured by the fact that we have a complex language and technology as well, also I am a human so I am part of the situation.
• people not used to being drawn, it feels invasive and more obvious than photography
• privacy an issue which is not the case with animals.
• also people wear clothes 
• there is no "framework" such as life class situation or a formal studio where the rules have been agreed upon. 
• weather showery and blustery, so returned home, decided to create a blog so that I would have a framework to practice