Scribbles from the WWC
Well, Jason and I attended Skottie Young’s class on “Acting in Comics” when we were at the WWC. It was a lot of fun.
Skottie reminded me of an important part of the learning process in drawing: gesture drawing. As any artist with some training will tell you, gesture drawing is the quick scribbly sketches that teachers make you do in figure drawing classes. Unfortunately, since we artists are an inherently lazy and undisciplined lot, we tend to stop with the scribbles as soon as the teacher stops asking for them. At least, I know I have.
Anyway, Skottie reminded us that it’s easy to fall into a position slump. We all have fall-back positions that we tend to put our characters into. Warming up with a whole lot of gesture drawings can help break that habit.
In turn, I have bought a couple of newsprint sketchbooks and have devoted my mornings to scribbling in public. I won’t post them here because, like I said, they’re just scribbles. But I’m getting a lot of new poses from you citizens unbeknownst to any of you. So keep your eyes open, you might see me out on the street some morning soon.
I’ll be the one scribbling.
Love,
Micah
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