Establish a daily creative ritual

This past week I’ve been doing charcoal apple studies most nights…another good idea for a daily ritual.

I haven’t done this in quite awhile…just purchased a book by the French art professor, Lecoq, and I’d like to start up my visual memory exercises again using his methods. A daily morning cafe visit would do me well.

I will wake up at 8:00am, leave home by 9:00am, drive to San Francisco Coffee and draw my daily composition (Nicolaides, pp52-53) of something I’ve seen within the last 24 hours. This is a gesture study/memory drawing where I will focus on movement of the whole—think of figure, place and objects as one. They don’t have to be right – they can be all wrong.

Show the figure in relation to its environment.

examples:
1) a person getting into their car
2) a woman examining merchandise in a store
3) a man lighting a cigar
4) a person paying his restaurant check
5) children playing
6) a woman in a hair salon

you will never use a model for these drawings – they are specifically from memory