Still a life

Something a bit different. Made the most of the midday sun with a still life. The aim was to try to master the satin material. Interesting exercise though apart from the fact that it takes a long time I'm not sure what I learnt. It is all good practice. Three hours, acrylic on 14"x11" canvasboard.

The material was less green than this and more bronze though the sheen was green.

Structure of the head

After having less success than usual in a portrait life session I tried some more practice. These are the better ones though it does niggle me that there are still some fundamental proportional issues.

Faces and figures

Not particularly happy with any this fortnight but it is all practice. Also the scanner is cropping parts of the drawing which is a little annoying.

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First one I was trying to capture the tension of the pose rather than end with something static.

I think this worked out well, particularly the hand gripping the support the model is resting on.

Drawing two models has its problems but also advantages. With all the overlapped shapes it is very easy to see when things are wrong.

Scanner on the blink

So here are some very poor photos.

Line and tone

Wow, where did the summer go. Need to post more. Still from photos

     

Plodding on

Finding it difficult to motivate myself. Most of the drawings are poorly constructed and have bad proportions. I'm questioning whether drawing from photos really helps. Next time I should do still lifes or landscapes. For now here is the best of the fortnight's drawings.