Making movement
My ways of sketching
Hello dears,
How are you doing?
Hopefully feeling the wind of spring blowing softly on your back. I am feeling alive and inspired. Ready to enjoy the sweet moments of bliss that springtime brings us.
This week I want to share with you my favourite sketching method!
I have been sketching for so many years now. It started of by hiding in the back of my classes in highschool drawing lineups in the tiniest scale, pretending to do the work I was supposed to. Sketching has always brought me closer to myself. It makes my soul and body dance like flowers in the wind. It is my way of connecting with my creativity in the moment. I love to use it as a tool to study what I see and to deepen my sensitivity to what is around me.
I used to often try to force the sketches into more concrete forms to translate them into actual garments but I have realised some of them are just supposed to be as they are. Perfectly imperfect sketches / art works.
Pick out a few garments you own
Place a camera and a mirror in front of yourself
Start wearing, placing, draping and styling the garments in unusual ways
Allow time to stand still and embrace yourself in the moment with the fabrics wrapped around your body
Capture the different experiments with a timer or a video
Select 10 or more drapes and print out in multiple copies
Engage the senses, listen to good tunes and place your mediums on an empty surface
Study the forms and movement of the image in front of you with your hands
Work fast
Work faster
And importantly, review them afterwards, not during. Hours, days or months afterwards.
Try it if you feel called! There is no right way nor right outcome.
When sketching on the printed papers!
I will usually take out 1-10 mixed mediums; Coal pens, dry pastels, oil pastels, pens, and ink. Then I will print out multiple copies (20 plus) of my draping sessions. I set the space with some tunes, light candles and an incent and place a glass of water next to me so I can stay in my flow. Then I start sketching and allow each sketch to take everything between 15 sec to a few minutes. The magic is in the fast but calm pace, getting past the rational thinking mind and into the flow of doing. The more, the faster the better.
How do you feel about sketching?
What is your preferred way of sketching? It doesn’t have to be pen on paper.
Wishing you the most beautiful love-filled week ahead.
Kisses,
A