October 25, 2011

     Here is the third rotation of the scribble - a stylized horse head. It looks to me like it belongs on a Soviet poster from the 1920s. 
     I was having a very hard time with this rotation... I could "see" some things in it, but they would work okay for this little bit over here and then I couldn't see anything to do with the rest, or maybe something else for a different part but with the same problem... the rest wouldn't work in at all. Remember, the idea is to try to use all of the lines in the original scribble below, no erasures, and to try not to just over-ride or ignore a line. 
     So, there I sat in the wooden state of mental block when suddenly I saw this horse, as though it had been there all along. A horse, of course!
   

October 23, 2011

    Wow, I'm going through a huge slump in getting these drawings done... and even my scribble sketch scheme to catch up hasn't helped me out of the slump much. 
    I did finally pull up my drawing suspenders enough to do the first of the scribble drawings:  It's a circus. On to the next rotation...

October 22, 2011

     I made this scribble for someone else to play "scribble sketch" with. You're supposed to use a scribble someone else did, so it's guaranteed to have been unplanned... but I know this has no planned image so I know it's just a random scribble. Also, I'm behind at this point since the last several days have been jumble-pile days and I need to squeeze in some catch-up just-for-fun sketches. SO - I'm going to see what I can come up with for this sketch from all four orientations and make those be the next four sketches. Hopefully posting tomorrow...

August 25, 2011

    Because I'm taking a bit of a break, I got one of my sons to scribble something for me to use as a constraint/starter to do a just-for-fun sketch. This is what he came up with... a bit light, but the rules say I have to use the lines. I can ignore any I don't want to use but I have to leave them there (I did go over them to make them more visible). I can turn it any direction I want, so I'm showing it in the orientation I settled on. 
    I made it into the up-close mouth of a dog (or doggish creature). Yes, I know dog teeth aren't really like this, but this is probably the way my poor valiant mail man is imagining they look as he approaches the door...

March 21, 2011

     Okay - so this isn't a new sketch... but I'm so far behind right now that I'm allowing myself to post the colored version of this previous drawing as a sketch for a day. I decided to try coloring this one, and in keeping with the child-like drawing, I wanted to try using crayons. I had a box of 64 I'd picked up as a whim somewhere because the colors grabbed me  (no wonder kids eat these things). I knew the paper wouldn't take water color, but I decided to color it with crayon and wash over it with water color since it would resist - which it did; and beaded up nicely, which you can see if you click on the image to enlarge it. Ignore the buckles - they're from the paper being for sketching and not water media. I'll plan ahead better next time, but an experiment is an experiment and play is just that!

March 20, 2011

    My older son commented he thought I should do another of the "scribble pictures" where I simply scribbled and then drew something based on the scribble, but he declined to provide the scribble so I lassoed the other son into making a scribble for me. After all, the original game, when I was a kid, was for one person to make a scribble and the other person had to make something out of the scribble... My second son provided the following scribble (I think he was channelling Joan Miro):

     I could turn it any direction I wanted, and I ended up using the direction that was 180 degrees from the orientation in which he drew this, but I have given you the scribble in the direction I used it. Can you find all of the original lines in the final drawing? 
     I drew the golden fish from the fairy tales, who could grant three wishes. Here, he's swimming with a companion, and some hopeful soul is attempting to net him with a net which is much too small. Magic can't be captured with a tiny imagination...

 

Feb 3, 2011

    I felt like having a "fun day" with the sketching, and Opie's sketch based on a scribble had reminded me of a car game we had played as kids. I scribbled this scribble without looking (in the original game, you could look, but this game was being played with myself), then rotated it until I chose a direction. I chose this one, then I tried to draw anything I could imagine based on the scribble. The rules say you can emphasize any existing line, but cannot erase or eliminate any lines. If there's an inconvenient line, you live with it...

     This is a Wynken, Blynken and Nod sketch. I darkened some of the lines, and if I had been clearer in my mind about the rear of the boat I probably could have made that a little less confusing, but I thought of putting wind sock fish in after some debate about what to do with that particular section of the scribble which didn't do anything for me... given the sky sailing aspect of the poem, I liked the idea and can live with the slightly confused way they are attached... after all, it's also all about a dream world and we know how loosely dream worlds deal with the details!