Mike Sibley
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Posted Dec.27th, 2012, viewed 2070 times
EXERCISE 2
Excellent! This is exactly what I was looking for.
This exercise was intended to get your brain used to see negatively before you moved on to the next exercise by helping you to "see" white shapes as you shade around them. The only white we have is the white of the paper, and often, as we draw, accidental white shapes and gaps will appear. You need to be aware of those white shapes and to recognise them for what they suggest or can be made into. And it gives you the ability to create white shapes as you draw simply by imagining they are there - bits of straw on a barn's floor for example, that you can return to later to add detail.
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