Old Sketch

Graphite flat sketching pencil. This would have been done in first year university, 1971. Our drawing instructor in first year was Nonie Mulcaster. She was a brilliant teacher for kids like me who thought drawing was supposed to be painstakingly  true to life, single line, no messiness etc. Mulcaster snapped me and my fellow stodgy newbies out of this by starting each class with 'gesture drawings'. As best I can describe it, gesture drawing was a series of lines, sketched very fast, vaguely following the movement or shape of the subject. 10 seconds or less and you had to be on to the next pose. You didn't have time to fuss and I learned not to get hung up on details. This would be an example of gesture that preceded a finished drawing.