In a recent photoart post, ‘the red bull of Hueva‘ I included Picasso’s drawings of a bull from more detailed to its most simplistic. i.e. “seeing the few important details which convey the majority of meaning.” (Dan Scott). It basically boils down to the merest outline.
So back in the drawing app ‘zen brush3‘ I’ve been practicing with lines – aiming for fluidity and flourish, without deliberation. It helps to counter a slight tremor and in the process, discovering how much can gleaned from, or rather superimposed on, the visuals.
there are two types of lines. The first consists of the edges derived from a still frame of reality…The other one is a kind of reverse of it: you draw any lines and wait for your mind to lead you to a recognizable outcome. ~ Monika Zagrobelna ~
this is the original line, which I developed further by layering with superimposed replicas and varying the shades and contrasts.
Once developed enough to my satisfaction, I experimented with rotations and that is when the drawings felt ‘alive’ because even though abstract, I could not helps but see an outline of a person with its resultant emotions. How different a feel is this on the right to its obverse, as the featured image at the top of the page:
I’ve been rather hooked now on these line drawn experiments with the zenbrush3 app so am going to make ‘telling it in lines’ a bit of a series until I’m all drawn out!
Postscript: In doing these I was reminded of the paintings of Marina Kanavaki’s very fluid ‘Characters’ – take a look!
Photoshop Friday and having some fun with edits and apps!
PoetryPix 