9" x 12"House Finch
Graphite pencil on sketchbook paper
This afternoon I succumbed (yet again!) to elaborating on what was supposed to be a simple sketch. For my friends who don't do much art, there's a marked difference between a sketch and a drawing. A sketch is a quick, loosely done preliminary rendering, usually without much shading or detail, whereas a drawing is a very finished piece which can almost be described as painting with a pencil.
My problem is, I sometimes end up turning a sketch into a drawing before I realize I'm doing it, and so I end up with a piece that's not rough enough to be a sketch, but not quite detailed or accurate enough to be a proper drawing.
Ah, well. Maybe I'll just start calling these pieces, "dretches" or "skrawings".
1 comment:
A sketch can very well be elaborated. I call "sketch" whatever I consider as research and that I wouldn't include in my portfolio as such.
Just look at Alan Lee's sketchbook, most of these are almost finished drawings, but they are still "only" research.
Nice birdie by the way!
Post a Comment