DamnesiaVu

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Recently dove back into the old Vilppu videos- numero uno at least, Gesture.

I still feel so disconnected from image making, but Mr. Vilppu always puts me into a good mood. It's been about a year since I last "quit" the Vilppu tutorials, which is a story in and of itself, and I feel I'm getting a bit more out of the basic advice this time around. I think I need to take more seriously the idea of "quick sketch" being a bit more deliberate than the name would imply. Used to be in trying to grasp the total I would work more like a mad copyist than an analyst. 

I still have trouble beginning, making that call regarding what to hang the image on. Some part of my brain still screams "don't start with the head!"

Inspiring: "Everything is related to framing... the first line is actually the fifth"

So many little practices I could be engaging with to slow myself down: going through the motion of a mark before actually making it, holding with a concept of action and form, like a sculpture in your mind, before ever setting pen to paper. I'm actually pretty bad at that!

If I had to describe the Vilppu gesture model:
Use what you feel and what you understand to selectively lead the eye and communicate the total
Reading the way the eye is moved:
Guiding it through flowing relationships
Containing it through shapes and parentheticals 
Reading the form:
Emphasis on cross contour: across the figure, emphasizing mass, direction, weight.

Personally I know I could use more practice observing cross contour
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Speed vs Gurney

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From Harold Speed's "The Practice and Science of Drawing"
Colour would seem to depend much more on a natural sense and to be less amenable to teaching. A well-trained eye for the appreciation of form is what every student should set himself to acquire with all the might of which he is capable.

From James Gurney, on Speed
As an author of a book about color, I have to disagree with him here.
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