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Anyway, with regard to the ballpoint pen drawings, Katja told me that she thought I should not do this. This was weird, because usually she was all about encouraging people to experiment and develop their own style. But in this case she said this technique increased my natural tendency to become rigid.
Well, I don t see rigidity in this picture at all... I see rather wildness and sharpness of the lines. It is funny, because my art teacher would make me do ballpen drawings, because he found it was releasing and liberating me. I go quite wild, with a ballpen, which is maybe, why I perceive this picture as wild. And afterwards, I could enjoy and apply the sensitivity and the possibilities of pencils much more again.
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You can take it home when you will visit us in May.
You re so great, Romy...
Yes, I will do that, thank you.
And then, I will have a close look at it, concerning the "Strich"...
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I just love to find out how I have to vary the lightness and darkness of small details (e.g. in a particular muscle) to set a local focus, of bigger features (e.g. the higher versus lower part of a face) to set an intermediate focus and of whole sections of the drawing to direct the attention on a global scale. If I am only focusing on local contrast (which is what happens to me when I try to be exact), all the details might look nice, but if I look at the picture from a distance, it is just one unitary sauce and looks boring as a whole.
This is indeed one of the main problems of studies, in my opinion. My teacher made me walk back very, very often, and he made me look with slitted eyes without focusing on one point. That helped a lot. He teached me, not to go into details, in the beginning. He made me grasp the whole, but I had to start it from inside (not to start with an outer line, but an inside form), then I had to work myself to the outer parts very scetchy. Then I could slightly go into light and shades, but first of all briefly. When all was done, I was allowed to start details, but I should never loose the whole, when I worked on a detail, so he allways called me back, especially in that phase. That worked fine with me to not get the unity sauce...
I actually love your work in progresses, because the unfinished parts oppose the elaborated in a nice way. That is, what my teacher wouldn t like me to do in studies. But as an artifice, it is very exciting to me.
What a pity, could exchange for ages now, but I have to leave...