Some of you might have been wondering why there are “croquis” sessions at all — why not take a longer time and make “finer” drawings?
Obviously,
– a human model can remain in the same pose only for a quite limited duration of time.
– so, an artist needs to grasp the major “features” of the model — the posture, the muscles’ ups and downs, the atmosphere created, etc. — during that limited duration.
Besides,
please note in the two croquis shown below that “precise” drawing can result in something quite rigid while a a 5-minute limitation can create some “blurred excitements.”
I made both years ago, of the same model.
The left one, 20 minutes, is precise yet quite rigid. It just describes what the model looked like. (though such precise description is sometime necessary — think of when your camera/cell phone goes bizarre yet you want to make a precise graphic image of something, for instance)
The right one, 5 minutes, is quite rough and blurred, yet creates some imagination in the viewer. And the artist him/herself can develop such imagination into a full painting.
(Click each image to enlarge)
(Pencil on paper, not for sale — just croquis)
20 minutes
5 minutes, same model
