Squiggles and a portrait.

Not much time for drawing this week, more painting and beer drinking.

05.07.2009 - Basics

This week although I've been concentrating on painting the sketches seem more real or physically represent a 3d model.

1st July: not much

Been concentrating on painting (acrylic) and colour. First a sketch prior to a painting (getting composition and basic tones).



Then after the painting there were problems around the nose. Not sure that this helps in that the tones are very bumpy (too much light in the shadow)



Finally the best of the figure sketches I've done from references this week.

22nd June 2009

I thought I wouldn't have anything to post they were all feeble but the last two weren't so bad.

15th June 2009: Tonal studies

Some more studies using the same ideas as the Robert Barrett.



The second one has a few too many squiggles, need to simplify.

8th June 2009: Copies of other drawings

Someone suggested copying master drawings rather than photos since they you are learning how to draw rather than using your current skills to copy a photo.

First a Robert Barrett, working with charcoal smudged in to give a mid tone and then add charcoal for the darks and using a putty rubber for the highlights.




Second a Henry Yan, was going OK until I switched from charcoal to compressed charcoal. Need to work out how not to get in a mess.



I think although the proportions were off I was happy with these. In particular both techniques give a wider range of tones than what I was previously doing.

1st June 2009 : Wonky

First some wonky structure drawings:





Then some wonky portraits:




Finally some hand studies (not so wonky)