UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Calligraphic marks and line are one of the best ways to convey quick ideas through you sketches to the minds of your viewing audience.
Yet, ‘Calligraphic’ suggests many things to many people… Or a more traditional Idea
How ever this is not really what I am going to be asking you to attempt. Talk a look and tell me what you see:
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I notice three tree standing beside a slow moving stream. The land is flat and a storming is moving in…
Um… no… I really notice a collection of marks lines and scribbles which make me think of the above narrative based on what the artist has been able to convince my mind to think it sees…
So how does it work? Our minds are accustomed to make making mental leaps, or assumptions, and once we understand this it gives us, as artists, great flexibility to make people think, and feel, what we want.