Key words from the brief:
- Set up a scene – a still life of easily movable objects
- Set a timer for three minutes and start drawing
- Reduce the time even more, bring it down to two or even 1 minute, and conduct at least two drawings at this reduced time
- A further test could be to set up a scene that will move
What I did
I decided to make the rapid sketches on location in the Barbican Centre Conservatory. I used the stopwatch on my iPhone to time each drawing and made the drawings using ink pens and Sharpies. All drawings were made in an A5 sketchbook.
I made several 3-minute drawings:
Several 1-minute drawings:
And a rapid drawing on a London Underground travelator:
Reflections
What went well
- The location had lots of different plants and cacti which were easy shapes to draw
- The three-minute sketches for this subject seemed to work better than the shorter sketches because the images had many diverse shapes and complexity
- I can see potential in this subject and will return to it in later exercises
Illustration 