Jul 11
Blindfold yourself and draw your artwork. A quote:
“In 1947 Life Magazine asked some famous comic strip artists to to draw their famous characters while wearing a blindfold. The results are interesting; they sort of remind me of that famous nature film that I was shown in Health Class where they blew marijuana on a spider and then watched him make crazy freaked-out webs. I have to confess that I’ve not heard of half of these comic strips; However, for the sake of preservation I’ve scanned them all. In my opinion Chick Young’s Dagwood and Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy are the best, but Dixie Dugan’s artist John Striebel seems like he wasn’t even trying!”
The Dick Tracy one is by far the best.
The Skeezix one reminds me of the Hitchcock Intro where he walks up to his outline.
It’s like playing crainium. Blindfolded pictionary.
Make sure you post the completed image Scott.
For you Flickr illustrators, I started a group so if you HAD your own cartoon, or if you had a drawing you liked doing regularly, you could try this little experiment yourself.
Blindfolded Art