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“It is in the order to really see, to see ever deeper, ever more intensely, hence to be fully aware and alive, that I draw what the Chinese call ‘The Ten Thousand Things’ around me. Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world.

I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is”.

(Frederick Franck, ‘The Zen of Seeing’).


Wednesday 31 October 2012

178-184, TV Sketches


I recently discovered a great feature on my Panasonic TV, a Hold button which freezes the current image enabling me to do a quick caricature or sketch. I used the technique outlined in Tom Richmond's book on caricature for doing a 'live' caricature and was quite pleased with the results. I only spent about five minutes on each drawing and then added some shading with Copic Markers. I'm not quite ready for a real 'live' session yet though and probably never will be, but it was a fun exercise and I will definitely be doing some more.