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Seat
The red and blue chair, designed by Gerrit Rietveld between 1919 and 1922. It was an attempt to make good minimalist furniture available to the masses. It was priced in 1923 at Ζ15 (Β± β¬126 nowadays). Professionally made replicas retail for β¬1500 and up.
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Proportion
I always had problems with measuring; I was never very exact with it. For drawing it meant that likeness required more work and more attention. Even though it doesn’t look like it, the sketch took me over 90 minutes and still it’s all wrong, wrong, wrong!
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.is
Iceland is an altogether unique island state which an active volcano and stunning landscapes, and a surprising temperate climate for its Northern latitude, so close to the arctic circle.
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Occupy
People can take over prominent places for a peacefully protest against the growing embarrassment of riches. Similarly can a cartoon character embarrass an artist by pointing at some rather off-model mugshots, despite many hours of preparatory sketches.
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Jest(est)
When I think of a comedian, Buster Keaton comes to mind. He’s supposed to be the master of physical comedy (slapstick), yet I know so little about him. I’m sure most of his work is in the public domain, so studying it should be easy enough.
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A quick test. There will be a learning curve. But hey, learning new stuff is fun.
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Safety
Most security IRL is based on inconvenience rather than impenetrability. Locks can be picked. A locked door inconveniences more than an unlocked door (since a lock requires a key or knowledge and equipment to pick that lock). More locks inconvenience more, duh!
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I always wondered why my cats are so strongβ¦
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My Microblogvember 2022 (so farβ¦)
I didn’t compete in the very first microblogvember in 2019. It’s a self-challenge to blog every day on the timeline of microβblog for the month of November. This year, 2022, will be my first attempt to beat any procrastination to create that might come up during a month. I’ve done 29 of the 29 days so far, with only one day to go. I think I’ll manage the last one.
Here are 29 word prompts (and my solutions):
- Figure (Musk buying twitter)
- Feast (guinea pigs)
- License (Microβcamp)
- Admiration (Gollum)
- Exemption (House owners)
- Echo (Beethoven)
- Insight (spacecraft)
- Consensus (superheroes)
- Certain (Sherlock Holmes)
- Minister (TV series)
- Display (Adrian Black)
- Suspicion (Hitchcock)
- Adjust (heating)
- Leave (of senses)
- Aluminium (the chemical)
- Franchise (Superman)
- Barrel (beer vat)
- Tire (kitten from playing)
- Novel (fantasy)
- Repeat (Commodore 64)
- Ice (age)
- Graze (box)
- Update (Microblog News)
- Retain (Medieval prison)
- Ritual (Black Friday)
- Commitment (Hunchback of Notre Dame)
- Motivation (Willy Wonka)
- Trend (life lesson)
- Fish (barracuda)
Mind you, I’m not stopping when November 30 ends. I will keep going, from “November 31” up to and including “November 61” π€£ After the last official prompt for November 2022 from the @challenges@micro.blog account, I’ll continue with randomwordgenerator on my own. Hopefully by then I’ll have colored ballpoint pens, so I can make it more interesting to look at.
So, my self-challenge ends with the year 2022. Until then, it’ll be nose to the grindstone and solve the current daily prompt with a sketch and some words. I guess I’ll evaluate how it went in the New Year.
If you’re asking yourself why I drew in a notebook with lines, it’s a self-depreciation built in, so I can’t worry about such silly thoughts. It’s already bad for drawing to begin with. I can only make it better.
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Fish
When Jacques-Yves Cousteau wanted to swim with the fishes, he had to invent self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (S.C.U.B.A.). What he saw made him want to protect it, since we humans were (and still are) destroying it with our exploitation of the sea.
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Trend
I can see my (hobbyist) art getting better with each year I practice, yet still have ebbs and flows in both quality and quantity. It’s frustrating to seemingly have crossed a threshold, only to see my enthusiasm wane because of some outside force or event.
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Motivation
The little people don’t need much to make them do what you want them to do. Refined sugar will often do it, hyperactively so.
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I’ve done some research on drawing with a ballpoint pen, and it seems it’s in the indelible nature of the medium that practice is quintessential.
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Commitment
Romantic involvement often doesn’t lead to immediate engagement or even infatuation, maybe a slight tolerance of being close at best. It’s recipe for disappointment and tragedy as life put its claws into a budding relationship.
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Ritual
It is said all things come in threes. Black in the numbers, black in the thoughts and black (and blue) in the face. Online buyers, beware of all kinds of shenanigans today!
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Retain
How do you keep your employees in your failing social media company? Well, those who aren’t bound with feudal bonds as foreign workers you lock up with strict contracts under NDA, and throw away the key. It seems ye olden days of cruel overlords are back, baby.
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I guess there are lessons to be learned here.
- Keep that point clean!
- Spend more time on analyzing the big shapes, then carefully draft then looking at the reference, not the drawing.
Other than that, I’m pleased with this messy drawing, for now.
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Great ballpoint drawing tips from Jess Karp on YT. The most important:
- forget it’s a ballpoint pen; treat it as a pencil
- use a paper scrap to regularly clean the tip
- build your values in layers
Inspired me to sketch some faces from the microβblog Discovery Tab.
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As per that previous post for microblogvember, I need to teach myself to draw everyday objects to a level that it’s recognizable as the object. Random scribbles aren’t going to cut it.
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