Make someone's portrait in less than a minute, using either numbers or doodles
By James P. Ong
Uploaded on Feb 27, 2008
IF abstract is the closest thing you can get to producing art, then you would have been clapping your hands in glee if you were at Momentous Arts last Friday. The international artist Rene Robles, who founded the painting style called "assertionism", entertained the crowd attending the opening of his exhibit "The Art Of Making Visible" by showing us some neat tricks he's picked up in his over 40 years of being an artist.
These tricks are best for people who've never drawn anything in their entire life, or those who've always wanted to attend children's art classes but never found time to.
For example, how can you make someone's portrait in less than a minute, using only the numbers 1 to 8? Here's how:
You can also draw someone using doodles, says Robles, who himself likes doodling absent-mindedly. Here's how:
