Sketching From The TV.
by Bill Bradley
(Darwin, NT, Australia)
Pencil thumbnail sketch
When I first started drawing, I read somewhere that a good way to learn was to sit and draw thumbnail sketches of the newsreaders on TV.
I found this virtually impossible to do, as the shots kept changing so quickly.
I had heaps of 2" square thumbnails with with large crosses through them.
Then when watching a video one day (does anyone remember them?) I accidentally hit the pause button. Crikey, this is it, I had a still image for 5 minutes before it clicked into play again. That was definitely more my style.
I recommend this to anyone to sharpen up their drawing skills.
The two pencil sketches here are from a video tape of our local TV news at the time of the East Timor crisis. The first one was a quick TV shot of a local Darwinite reaching over the fence at the quarantine yard and offering support one of the refugees.
The second one is a of a 75 years old (then) Aussie nun who was less than complimentary (I actually wrote "spitting venom") about the Indonesian military.
Every time I look through this section of my sketchbook, the memories come flooding back of that traumatic time. There is no better way to fix a scene or a subject in the memory.
Cheers
Bill.
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