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Completion Project
Feb. 18th, 2005 12:02 pmSo yesterday I started fooling around with a dumb idea.
My sketchbooks tend to contain many many pages of half-drawn figures overlapping each other on the page. Typically they're abandoned due to soem defect in the design of the character.
Anyhow, yesterday I went through my small sketchbook and started completed all of the figures in it. I gave them hands, feet, faces, clothes (as needed) heck. Some even got scenes. Heads got bodies, and so on. Where there were multiple characters on a page, I went with lowest on page is in the foreground and drew as much of characters higher in the page as was visible behind the foreground characters.
The idea, I guess, was to work with the defects in these drawings and make something interesting out of them or to correct the defect. So if a character had a really long speaghetti arm, it got matching legs and a meatball nose. A lot of the abandoned characters actually ended up surprisingly good when I fleshed them out and fixed their faults, and while most are just pencil sketches that aren't worth scanning, I think I did learn something from the project and, if nothing else, it at least made my sketchbook more fun to look at.
I may have to do the same thing with my large sketchbook now.
My sketchbooks tend to contain many many pages of half-drawn figures overlapping each other on the page. Typically they're abandoned due to soem defect in the design of the character.
Anyhow, yesterday I went through my small sketchbook and started completed all of the figures in it. I gave them hands, feet, faces, clothes (as needed) heck. Some even got scenes. Heads got bodies, and so on. Where there were multiple characters on a page, I went with lowest on page is in the foreground and drew as much of characters higher in the page as was visible behind the foreground characters.
The idea, I guess, was to work with the defects in these drawings and make something interesting out of them or to correct the defect. So if a character had a really long speaghetti arm, it got matching legs and a meatball nose. A lot of the abandoned characters actually ended up surprisingly good when I fleshed them out and fixed their faults, and while most are just pencil sketches that aren't worth scanning, I think I did learn something from the project and, if nothing else, it at least made my sketchbook more fun to look at.
I may have to do the same thing with my large sketchbook now.
