More Inking on My Glass, Mirrors and Reflections Piece

I have been taking a Seth Godin course called The Creative’s Workshop and in it participants are encouraged to show up and ship something everyday for 100 days. Not being too sure of what I would do with that, I decided I would at least work on a drawing or sketch daily. If I did more with making something, great. If not, I worked on a drawing.

Some members in class mentioned wanting to see a short video of my drawing or painting process so I decided to learn how to make videos. They started very simple and now I have the basics down. I have a YouTube channel where I’ve put all my drawing and sketchbook videos made so far.

Today for my Day 32/100 effort, I worked some more on my glass, mirrors and reflections piece from a photo I took at Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston. Here is the video link for today’s progress.

I have now all the inking done around the central container. The area I was working in the lower right of the paper didn’t have any pencil guide lines to refer to so I was inking and winging it! The shapes are fairly abstract so accuracy isn’t necessarily so important here.

The video takes about 22 minutes of drawing and puts it into a little under 3 minutes. The music in the background is Haydn No. 3 Op 76 I Allegro.

Do you like these kinds of videos that show some progress on projects? What can you work on for 20-25 minutes to move along?

Inking progress on my Glass, Mirrors and Reflections piece.

A Video of Work on my Glass, Mirrors and Reflections from the MFA Drawing

I am still participating in The Creative’s Workshop. Today was Day 17/100 to show up and do something. A couple of my friends from the course asked if I could make a video of me drawing since they were not artists and don’t know the process.

I filmed a portion of my glass, mirrors and reflections drawing from the MFA three times. Two of them had technically difficulties. My camera seems too heavy for the arm of the stand and the screw to tighten the arm is very stiff. Two of my videos had slow motion movement of the camera moving its focus from the drawing to just the photo I’m working from. Not so informative!!

I hope you find it interesting as a small glimpse into the process of drawing a complicated picture using a photo as a reference.

Glass, Mirrors and Reflections from the MFA