heeeey, this actually is a fucking fantastic artist unblocker!
The Near-Sighted Monkey teaches a picture-making class once a week in Madison, Wisconsin. All of the work is done in a standard composition notebook with white glue and paper scraps and Flair pens. Tonight the class did a barely modified exercise from a book by Ivan Brunetti called “Cartooning: Philosophy and Practice.”
THEY DUG IT!!!! WHY NOT GET IVAN BRUNETTI’S BOOK AND TRY IT???!!!
In your composition notebook, turn to a blank page and then….
1. Draw a car for exactly three minutes. Keep your pen moving the whole time. The quality of the drawing doesn’t matter as much as adding all of the details of a car you can remember. (door locks! Side mirrors! Tail-pipe!) Don’t let your pen stop for the whole three minutes. Have someone time you.
Now….2. Draw the car in two minutes
Then,
3. One minute
4. 30 seconds
5. Five seconds.Accept ANY DRAWING that comes your way.
YAY!!!
Ivan Brunetti says to repeat the exercise with cats, castles, telephones— (Really, any noun you can think of will make it take off like a rocket )—-
He encourages you to really notice how when you don’t have enough time to freak out, a certain spontaneous gesture appears.
All we can say is we CAN’T WAIT until February 15th! 4:30! Chazen Museum! University of Wisconsin-Madison!
#really and truly #what are you doing for five and a half minutes?
