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Yesterday's 5-minute Sketches and Finished Work

More work...from 5-minute sketches to finished ones that have a combination of shadow, detail and patterning work.  The bottom piece in particular has a lot of patterning intended to create background texture without districting too much from the figure.  I learned a lot about how to use different kinds of marks to differentiate space, texture and decoration.  Another step in my sketchbook is to do a mark-making chart of using lines in varying gradations to see what their potential is.

As for the recent work I've been doing with 5-minutes sketches, sometimes I like them and other times I don't.  Do you create 5-minute sketches?  If you do, do you like or learn from them, or both?  Do you take more time with 5-minute sketches to complete them?  Do you learn something by doing that and if so, what?  Or do you do it because you're uncomfortable with the unfinished versions? 



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