Bank holiday monday

Still trying to get my eyes and hand to work properly after a month of keyboard playing and very little drawing. Started getting the hang of things this afternoon though I'd hoped to start a painting.

The next one was at a strange camera angle: the view from above her shoulder foreshortened the legs. I was going to skip it as even drawing it correctly would look wrong but then had a go as it is unlikely to be a position I get to in a life drawing session

Hands a little small on the last but overall my favourite as I think it shows three dimensions best.

Banned practice

.. or rather band practice so little time to practice drawing for the last 3 weeks. These were the scribbles today, I was relatively happy with the last (but it is a pose that crops up a lot).

Perseverance

Had real problems with a foreshortened pose in the life session tonight. First a few from Monday's practice. Coloured pencils and pencil.

 

  

  

After the life session I looked for references with long foreshortening towards the feet.

 

  

  

It is so much easier from photos.

Red queen

Still not sure these are going anywhere though I find if I don't draw every day I get rusty very quickly. Maybe I need to study more rather than just copy photos.

 

  

  

 

Tinted charcoal

Bought some tinted charcoal. Interesting texture, as the name suggests more like charcoal than pastel or even conte (harder). They do blend more like pastels though and they lift more easily (for corrections or highlights). Need more practice but they're interesting.

 

Then a couple of blocked shapes. Practicing terminators and foreshortening (had problems with a foreshortened face in a painting so I need practice).

 

 

Distractions

Too much work this week. Also, spent some time on a Wet canvas project on painting (a pastel). First a couple of structure ones, the first worked (partially) the second didn't.

 

Then a couple of the wet canvas subjects concentrating on tonal values.

 

 

This last one was also one of the Wetcanvas source photos. Although this was for a painting exercise the strong lighting and the pale model led to very little definition and a more linear figure. The model's physique and pose gives it a superhero (or rather heroine) appeal.

Structure

More structure this week. Need to apply this to the life sessions.