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For the second exercise you will need drawing materials you are familiar with and maybe
some that you've always wanted to try such as graphite, a variety of soft and hard pencils,
black pen, ink and nib, coloured felt-tips, oil Pastels, chalk, charcoal. All of these
materials are optional and there might be others that I haven’t mentioned, that you
want to explore. This exercise is designed to explore the sketchbook
as a space to experiment with techniques and processes as well as developing individual
technique and expressive style. In this exercise you will see how, by exploring
a single object, ideas and techniques may evolve.
You will draw one object in quick succession, but this time you will introduce different
materials and techniques into the process. We hope that you will discover a sense of
play and accidental discovery and really explore expressing yourself and something of the character
of the object you are drawing. We suggest that you use the same folded sketchbook
as in the previous exercise. The beauty of this sketchbook is that it folds two ways,
so once folded back in on its self you have clean pages to work on. Or you may want to
work in the book you made in week one or make another folded sketchbook for the purpose
of this exercise. Choose one object.
Choose a drawing material to start with. For this exercise you should have a few drawing
tools around to choose from as you go along. It's useful to have ink and nib and wax crayons
as well as black pen and graphite or pencil. Start on the first page of your book and draw
your object. Just draw the way you feel like drawing, whether it be in pencil pen or straight
for the more exciting stuff. Allow yourself a few minutes for this drawing and then move
on to the next, drawing the same object again. If you are stuck give yourself a challenge
like to draw the object in a few lines, or change the material you are drawing with.
Keep the fluidity that you achieved in the last exercise of working quickly and moving
from one drawing to the next in succession. Allow yourself plenty of time to draw the
object on all eight pages without interruption. Allow yourself the chance to explore, play
and discover new ways of working.