Thursday, January 10, 2013

Bike mess

I always hated drawing bikes. Its wheels so round and so narrow and its billions of spokes and all that squashed layers: this side pedal, frame, other side pedal, chain before, chain beyond... a drawing hell... Nevertheless before making this sketch I had been toying with the idea for some weeks, I felt like drawing bikes. Mainly because at some point I stopped seeing –I stopped worrying about– wheels, spokes, layers, circles, curves and all that hellish trouble. Moreover, as if I had gone mad, I wanted to draw not one but loads of bikes, let's say...  a parking!
I chose one that I can see from my window, why go further. For some reason the tangle of tubes, cables, chains and all that metals and plastics seemed to me much more interesting than the bikes. As I said, I did not see bikes (if I had seen them I'd got freaked out and the sketch should have been a piece of crap). I didn't worry much about them while drawing. I started by the padlock in the center and continued opening circles as a spiral. Bikes arose themselves.
Then I went home and put some bright colors to distinguish the different bikes.
That's all.

BikeMess

15 comments:

Mari Carmen Ruiz Enriquez said...

nice bikes!

Mari Carmen Ruiz Enriquez said...

nice bikes!

Bob Mrotek said...

Miguel, you hit a home run. Great perspective.

John Wright said...

wheely good!

Judith Dollar said...

Intimidating but you succeeded nicely.

Marcia Milner-Brage said...

Great upbeat result. I liked hearing about your process, your mind-set in doing this drawing. With this in mind, you would probably do well with tackling a heap of trash mounded on the curb--another "tangle" of stuff.

Greg Foster said...

Great sketch. How did you ever keep the wheels in order? Wow!

Adriana Gasparich said...

Great sketch!

kumi matsukawa said...

Great work and a story. You showed us how to handle /cope with the things that are seemingly too complicating to draw.

Lynne the Pencil said...

What a challenge (I don't think I'd have dared) - love the result!

Pedro said...

It really is a wonderful mess. Congrats.

Miguel Herranz said...

Gracias, thank you, domo arigato, obrigado!! :)

3eCheval said...

I looooove this bike mess!
Bike +bike rack we should say.
It is encouraging me to tackle some of the stuff I find difficult. Thanks!

Isabel said...

bike mess but so colorful

Beth said...

Wonderful!!! lovely color!!!

 
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