Sooooo I found a bunch of old sketchbooks that Id forgotten existed while I was hunting down my old Atari 2600. oh what fun! I thought I might put some stuff on here to show you my arty processey thing (if there is one) Ill scan in stuff as I go through them, but heres what I found in the first one:::
now this was what was on the first page. my first thoughts were "oh god...another one of thoooose sketchbooks" (which get filled when Im depressed; and more often then not hungover)
But turn the page and ahhhhh...happy again
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So the thing you need to realise is when Im drawing, Im very impatient...so I something takes me longer than 15 or 20 minutes it generally doesnt get done...so to practice drawing quickly I used to set an hour-timer and go through a magazine and sketch out a whole page or as much as I could do in an hour from what was in there...which is what these next couple are:
(try and spot the celebrities
)
This one I was watching "Nosferatu" (Klaus Kinski version) and pausing it and seeing what I could get on paper before the vcr pooped itself (generally 3 or 4 minutes on pause):