[Fred Flick Stone]

Hi. I usually throw these away before I end my day, but I thought I might post how I warm up before I get to drawing or painting. All these images were done on 8.5 x 11 xerox paper, and each page was done in less than 2 minutes, except the superman page, that was done in about 5-10 minutes. All I am doing at this point is reestablishing contact with my hand to my brain to get some descent lines, or curves, whatever from my hand. Sometimes I wake up in the morning and feel like I don't know how to draw. Doing exercises like these allows me to reaffirm that I can do this stuff. Nothing really serious, just warm up time. Then off to the recycler these go.
Three of them were done with prisma color burnt umber, and the other was tria markers. Only the cross hair in that one was laid in with a pencil, everything else was a nuerotic convulsion from my hand...

Thanks for looking...



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[Francis]

Gaahh what a hack.

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[AliasMoze]

Those are neat, Freddo.

I don't think I have a phone message written down that doesn't have these kinds of things on them

[sh4de]

well thanks for posting

these are nice =)

[Mergatroid]

Do you draw cubes and cylinder too? In a couple of my classes at school (especially perspective) we would start out by drawing cubes, cylinders and rectangles. Most of the time though we would just doodle until the teacher would come by then we'd bring out the sheet with the requisite cubes, etc.....



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[Francis]

Now that's a good idea. Someone ought to start a thread about that...

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[Fred Flick Stone]

Please stop feeding the Francis. Out of control...

[balistic]

disregard.

Should've read the whole thread first




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[aquamire]

Pretty neat there Fred. I go through a similar process when I'm warming up, otherwise I feel like I cant draw at all. It's something I discovered on my own, and I wish I had known about it a lot earlier in life. Course, your scribbles there look a lot better than mine, heh.

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[Chapel]

Ya know out of all my years drawing.. I never once thought about "warming up". I usually start right in to what I want to draw and get frustrated. Makes me mad, because this would have been a tremendous help growing up. Now I feel I have alot of drawing to catch up on. Dang, this has got to be the most helpful tip I've read here and its the simplest. Thanks for posting it Fred Flick Stone.

[burn0ut]

i do this all the time to, nobody really ever told me to 'warmup' or anything, i sort of just picked it up myself, now i also draw 50circles a day Hehe, my friend goes to art center n said his teacher can draw a perfect circle in one stroke i guess heh :P

o n my friend is 17 still in highschool already goin to artcenter? damn hes skilled.

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[micke]

I like the face of that girl. Nice sketches,
Fred!

-Micke

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[Joachim]

Those are very nice Fred. You must have a whole pile of those, if you do this every single day. I think I will do more of this as well.

I often have a paper lying in front of me, just sketching without thinking. But, I guess one thing that should be important for faster improvement when warming up is also to struggle to not draw the same type of thing every morning. Because every artist, I guess, has a way of drawing f.ex heads his own typical way, which is easy to do without thinking....that is like phone sketches I mean. I often do head profiles, when I have no clue what to make, and some times I can make hundreds before I go nuts and uninspired, and just watch tv instead.
Sorry, I'm just mumbling out words.

Your sketches are great though Show more if you have some.

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[Francis]

I agree with that - I think you are only learning and grwing when what you are drawing doesn't come quite so easily. If you are drawing and it comes out quickly and easily with no struggle on your part, you're wasting your time.

Like working out - ten reps with a five pound weight isn't going to do much for you except kill some time.

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[Pigeon]

Hmm... I guess I would disagree in a friendly way with the last couple posts. I see warming up in art similar to warming up as a musician. You have a routine to get your body moving correctly and to reconnect the body and mind. If you start tackling new songs and other technical studies in your warmup, you're not being very productive. You should tackle new studies after you've 'reconnected' yourself.

I'm a big fan of warming up. Don't always do it, but I should. I usually do progressively longer gesture drawings of whatever is sitting around in my studio.

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[Fred Flick Stone]

Wow-again, a topic developed from some scribbles. I like this, wat I think will provoke certain responses actually sparks others. I thank you all again for the comments.

I am one who needs to warm up. And I really don't believe warming up should mean inventing something new. My brain needs to be sharp for that. But if my hand-eye co-ordination isn't working, theres no way I'm going to invent that next new thing, or look.

I try to do this as often as possible. If you draw unconciously, you may find something new in your development you never knew existed before. I am always searching for that. In tight design, or portraiture, you don't have a lot of room for development, it has to be found elsewhere. The warm up is a great place for this.

Mergatriod-sorry for the pun, if you were here a few months back we did a cube tutorial. THought that was sorta funny.

I have some new stuff to post, including the ACCD art, I will hook that up tonight after work. Thank you again for all the kind words...

[Rinaldo]

Hey Fred, you shouldn't throw these away. keep 'em in a garbage bag for when you get ultra famous. you can sell them for like ten bucks a pop. An' the good ones will go for way more.

People who can't afford a full blown Lemen original can have their own little sketch

*Stifles a chuckle*

[Francis]

Well now that's a good point (about the warmups) that I hadn't thought of in that way before. I guess I just use my crappy first attempts as the warmup.

Or you guys are just a buncha pansies.

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[IO_Error]

Love the sketches Fred.. its amazing what an accomplished artist can achieve in a few minutes.
This is sort of off-topic.. I was wondering if you had an idea of when we would see the next installment in the people/head construction tutorials... or has that been dropped completely?

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[Fred Flick Stone]

IO-nope not been cropped. Just delayed. I have to rethink a few things before I send it off. I want to restructure them just a bit. And with all the work I have been swamped with, I haven't had the proper time to get things right. Thanks for reminding me though. Gotta get that stuff up soon...

K-the high school folio that got me accepted to ACCD...at least the ones that are left...

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[k]

whats ACCD art?

[tanis]

Fred.. you should do as Rinaldo said. Keep them in a bag and when it's full mail it to me