In high school Art Class, I had a very good teacher. Mr Randy Marchinko. He challenged me. One assignment was to do a grid drawing in pencil. The picture up there is the result.
I took a not so random photo from magazines he had provided, in that I enjoyed cycling, and over top of it I drew grid lines. Then I took the larger paper, as per the assignment, and made a larger grid pattern on it, and transferred the contents of each little box on the photo to its corresponding box on the in the bigger one.
He encouraged us to do so gradually, never going too far in each box, that we would get too far ahead of the other boxes. If you bring it gradually to progress to completion, the whole picture takes shape in a balanced fashion. It was an amazing process, because I simply don’t draw that well. Maybe its because I’m too impatient, I don’t know. But I treasure this pencil media drawing, and have it carefully rolled up, stowed away somewhere.
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