I attended another of Chris Koning’s online drawing workshops this lunchtime. She referenced Kimon Nicolaides’ 1941 book, ‘The Natural Way to Draw’. He says that you need to draw what the object is doing, not what it looks like – gesture drawing.

We did a couple of very quick exercises – a quick 30 sec gestural drawing of a kettle starting from the middle rather than the edge, and a dancer using gesture, negative spaces and shading etc.

For some reason I didn’t do one drawing but got sidetracked on looking at shapes and shading. I’m quite pleased with the end result bearing in mind I only had an HB pencil to hand. It was quick and instinctive. I ran out of space as usual. I’m going to concentrate on doing some more drawing. I like the idea of moving continuously without taking the pencil off the paper, looking and editing as I go.