Mixed-Media Travel Sketchbook

Overview

“This lesson includes the first of two exercises to overcome the blank page syndrome: I will draw from life with a pencil alone a stick collected on the street, on the beach, or in a garden. All without ever looking at the sheet.”

In this video lesson Claudio Patanè addresses the topic: Blind-Drawing Exercise, which is part of the Domestika online course: Mixed-Media Travel Sketchbook. Learn to create, arrange, and bind an artistic journal to depict your daily travels through words, drawings, and objects.

Partial transcription of the video

“Blind-Drawing Exercise In this lesson, I will teach you how to overcome blank-page syndrome using a simple and effective exercise called blind drawing. I'll use a twig I found on the street, on the beach, or in the woods, and I'll draw it without looking at the drawing on the page. What will you need for this exercise? A blank sheet of paper in A5 and a soft 4B pencil. We'll use A5 paper for our custodiary to capture on this blank page the soul of different places, the soul in this twig found on a beach we've wandered, a road we've come across, or a forest. I often do this exercise with my ...”

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Course summary for: Mixed-Media Travel Sketchbook

• Level: Beginner
• 96% positive reviews (74)
• 2336 students
• 4 units
• 15 lessons (3h 17m)
• 2 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Painting, Pencil Drawing, Sketchbook, Sketching, Watercolor Painting