Exercise 1 is all about holding pens and pencils and seeing what marks they make. Sounds simple enough, but first you have to get over the blank page...
A3 was just too much, so i plumped for the O-so-familiar A4 :)
I wrote:
'I like the soft and sharp of charcoal :) graphite pencil too hard... i can't control it so well in circles - like pen - i struggle to form o's and c's, etc.'
This is a great exercise...my professors encouraged (especially the painting ones) that when we hold a pencil when drawing we don't hold it like when we are writing. That we want to be "loser" when holding a pencil for drawing. I didn't think I use one differently but I do notice when I want to do "detailed, controlled" work I hold my pen/pencil as if i'm writing. So in some ways I've listen in others I'm still controlling. Great job experimenting!
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