Drawing – fillière

Figures Fillière 1(b)

This is page 35 from Figures Fillière 1, available at amazon.com / books / Scott Fillier

It is one of a number of faces shown in the book and drawn in many different media, to demonstrate in this instance, that a mechanical drafting pen can be used to produce a landmark and powerfully expressive image one doesn’t usually associate with the output of that pen. All the more reason to investigate its off-beat potential.

The left-hand page of this two-page spread is of US President Jimmy Carter as the perfect opposite in personality type, and, in drawing tool effect.

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Mirror Mirror Figure

One consults this quicksilver analyst this parroting psychiatrist this counsellor whose Da Vincian observations, conclusions, notations are inverted on its walls.

One sees the impossible: flesh | mind | spirit & only will at hand to construct a harmony.

One reads a Rorschach world of ravages with each new day’s inscription engraved upon this wailing wall.

One sees the analyst reflect a target in his lidless omniscient stare.

May 11, 2019May 11, 2019 by fillière Categories: Being, Drawing Humour, Poetry, The Searching Eye, WritingTags: Assessment, Creativity, Drawing, Funny Bone, Poem, Reflected Image, Reflection, Rumour of Humour, Satire, Self-Assessment, Self-Portrait, Wit, Writing Leave a comment

Drawing Jenna

This time I will insert one of my YouTube videos, a drawing of my niece Jenna –three years old this week– but drawn a couple years ago.

My prime goal was to avoid cute; difficult to do in drawings with very small children, but the reference photo was all about her unusual sleeping pose, a superb, very unusual, neatly folded, accordion-like composition. I would only need to follow its lead and focus on that dynamic pose she had been so used to, and which had been so practical in her previous life.

As the drawing went forward I photographed its progress moment by moment, eventually arriving at what seemed a satisfactory finish. The drawing resolved itself without effort, and later on it was very easy to convert its dozens of stills into a video format.

For the music also, since I so enjoy creating the odd piece, I decided to take the most challenging route and discover whether something in a jazz mood might be less cute, less cloying than a lullaby. I think I found it.

The blend of image/music is surprising and, personally, is as close to flawless as I could hope.

April 21, 2019 by fillière Categories: Beauty, Being, Creativity, Dream, Poetry, The Searching Eye, WritingTags: Art, Beginnings, Creativity, Drawing, Dream World, Hope, Journey, Life, Music, Poetry, Portrait Leave a comment

Figure Donning Waterproofs

This is one of my favourite ways to initiate and complete a sketch.

I don’t want it to be photographic so I am relying on a memory of a situation I thought had great visual impact: a fisherman pulling on his waterproof pants. A photograph of the action would actually impede my drawing because I would get entangled in its details; when I only want the completed drawing to focus on abstracted essentials memory is the best tool as it will leave room for a creative remembrance.

Drawing with a dry/semi-dry pen allows me to lightly indicate the figure and work out good proportions. After which I go directly to the heart of my intent—fluid pose and positions of arms/legs plus the lines of the clothing which will describe the critical motion. Those centres of clothing stress I build into strong visual presences with a very careful eye to placement, to composition, to textural variation, to maximum effect created with minimal input. This allows ample room for imagination and suggestion to complete the work in the viewer’s eye.

Fillière © Apr 5 2019

April 5, 2019April 5, 2019 by fillière Categories: Beauty, Being, Creativity, Self, The Searching Eye, WritingTags: Art, Artistry, Creativity, Drawing, Image, Imagination, Imagine, Memory, Memory into Art, Pen Drawing, Sketch, Suggestion, Visual Poem Leave a comment

Figure with Towel

A workman comes into his kitchen, washes his hands, and wipes them with a towel.

This is splendour of the very plain and simple; nothing heroic, nothing histrionic; no life and death dramatics; no hallelujah chorus; just an aria on the ordinary. No other content necessary. For there is an energy in the jacket folds and those of the towel, and in the lines of the pen that searches them out. The mind clicks and fixes the image into place.