Recycling and Contour Drawings
9/06/2010 08:39:00 PM Posted In blind contour drawing , ink , Recycling Edit This 20 Comments »
OK, I'll start with the recycling part. I have lots of paper from my printer of things that for one reason or another didn't work out for me. Some things I used and then didn't need anymore, others just made crummy copies ... it doesn't matter - I just kept all that paper. I use it sometimes to test colors on when I'm painting, I use it when I glue things to protect my drawing table, but mostly it just sits in a pile. Then I started doing contour drawings (mostly blind). I really didn't want to use my good sketch books for them, and then I had this idea. I would make little books out of the used copy paper!
What I did was put two sheets together, printed sides facing each other. Then I used double sided tape to tape together the 4 corners. I folded them in 1/2, also folded an 8.5" x 11" piece of card stock in half, and then used my sewing machine to sew them together. I put 3 of my folded sheets in each booklet, giving me 12 pages to draw on!
Here's a picture of my first booklet, along with a couple of my blind contours. I've made notes to myself on some of the drawings if I took a peek along the way. I marked where each line started and ended, numbering them so I can tell later on what I did. Hope this makes some sort of sense to you!
What I did was put two sheets together, printed sides facing each other. Then I used double sided tape to tape together the 4 corners. I folded them in 1/2, also folded an 8.5" x 11" piece of card stock in half, and then used my sewing machine to sew them together. I put 3 of my folded sheets in each booklet, giving me 12 pages to draw on!
Here's a picture of my first booklet, along with a couple of my blind contours. I've made notes to myself on some of the drawings if I took a peek along the way. I marked where each line started and ended, numbering them so I can tell later on what I did. Hope this makes some sort of sense to you!
