Challenge #46 | Scribbles

[seleneheart]

Title: Scribble portrait
Artist: seleneheart
Rating: G
Fandom: original
Characters/Pairings: n/a
Content Notes: Other than some reference lines, I tried to do this in just scribbles and I feel like it got a bit out of control. This challenge is much harder than I realized! It's hard to get into a good rhythm and find a comfortable scribble 'style'. The random line at the bottom is from something else in my sketchbook.

Preview:

Comments

[amberdreams]

it is rather a challenging challenge, isn't it! Well done!

[goss]

Hey, not bad! I admire that you attempted a portrait from scratch in this style. I am still working my way towards that. :)

I found it easier to work on a large page to better achieve changes in value, and I also tried to make my scribbles as figure 8's all roughly the same size.

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

I think it looks pretty good.

Thanks for sharing; it's an interesting technique.

To approach scribbling as an art activity:

* It's excellent for flow, thus for loosening yourself before other types of art. In this regard it works much like gesture sketches.

* Like any other type of art, it can be broken down into individual strokes: small circles/spirals, longer ovals/spirals, very large arcs, back-and-forth straight or nearly straight lines, etc. So a way to improve the results is to practice the individual line types until fairly satisfied with them, then combine them to make pictures of things.

* Like many other types of sketching, scribbling can move very fast. This makes it great for capturing things that change quickly, like poses of animals or plants in nature.

* Think about things that resemble scribbling, like water moving or clouds or a pile of rubber bands. Scribbling is better at rendering some subjects than others, though it can be used for almost anything.