Paper
Finally understand stationery and the quality and quantity of paper for a sketch/drawing/idea. Also to be perfectly honest about your stage of drawing.
1. Newsprint:
When you are simply learning how to control your hand for drawing. At this stage your hand is learning arcs and gestures. How to capture the object as a whole. And it also allows you to be as violent and raw as possible since the paper is fairly tenacious.
Aka no one gives a shit at the stage. You can be as raw and unhinged as you like. It’s great for sketching and composing / learning how to compose.
I should be doing more figure and gesture studies. Maybe study light and shade with charcoal. There are some deadly figure studies on Instagram I tell ya. Hans Ulrich Obrist is a legend here.
The picture I captured below is Sunday church at the Senior Secondary School Centre, a youth fellowship in Munirka. More from this hood soon. Last Sunday’s lesson was to ask for forgiveness and to learn to forgive. Transformation happens through forgiveness.
2. Copier :
I realised I should be ideating on Copier. Making graphic lines, making storyboards, rough or fair layouts of typography, fair thumbnails and sketches to larger artworks, and general doodling.
I’ve been wasting a lot of paper off late and for all the veganism and shouting I’ve been doing on behalf of traffic/pedestrian etiquette and the use of gas ( air conditioning and four wheelers included), I’m a big fatty fat hypocrite. Makes me feel conscious (no point in feeling guilt) about how I’d like to compose paper instead of taking the space it allows me for granted. Abusing paper less.
Copier is great for daily sketching, organised documenting, ideating, layouts, and pretty much anything. It may not be great for a 6b but who’s using a 6b right now ffs? Liberating paper. Get the plan on it, draw, make notes and never skip.
See what I did here
All done on copier.
3. Cartridge paper:
Days like these require us to treat our artworks with utmost respect. Sheets are melting and deforestation is taking a toll on the planet. And so the paper so graciously provided by our tender and ancient cousins needs a whole new handle. I am awfully quite callous with my stationery or at least I used to me.
The climate crisis is actually propelling me to be more mindful on paper. Artists can’t do without paper. It’s the only thing that makes our hands work truly well. So I’ve decided to purpose cartridge as a final product for only coloured items and maybe the odd whole, detailed, and well examined sketch. (Don’t know when the fuck that day will be, I get lazy sketching torso down)
So cartridge is only for final fairs and mini works of art.
