Life drawing 24/11/14

3 minute sketches 

10 minute sketches

5 minute sketches

5 mins and 15 mins

Life Drawing - 19/11/14

I found this session with pastels especially challenging. I found that building up a thick layer of different coloured pastels was most effective in representing the lights and shadows on skin tone, though this took some time so the shorter sketches were not so successful.

5 minute pastel sketches

shooting an arrow - 10 minute sketch

half hour standing study

Object Still Life: coloured

I chose to use oil pastels to capture my still life arrangement in colour.

Life Drawing 11/10/14

After making a study of the model in charcoal, chalk was then added to recreate areas of light and shadow. Then the whole piece was obliterated with chalk (after taking the photo below), and the study made again on the same paper.

chalk and charcoal on black sugar paper

chalk and charcoal on black sugar paper

Object still life: blue ballpoint

Continuing the series of Still life studies, this time the objects have been drawn in blue ballpoint pen, which proves surprisingly versatile in expressing dark and light values.

More Life Drawing 04/11/2014

5 minute poses with chair (pencil and ink pen on bottom right)

20 minute study in pencil

20 minute study in pencil

Life Drawing 04/11/14

This week's exercises helped to better familiarity with a variety of mediums: ballpoint pen, charcoal and calk. Usually I enjoy using ballpoint pen to draw, but the size of the paper makes my linework seem very weedy on this scale. Beginning a study in chalk on white paper was even more impossible than charcoal on black paper, but the addition of the contrasting medium created some eye-catching effects. I will aim to try bolder lines and smoother smudging when I next attempt charcoal.

5 mins poses in blue and green ballpoint pen

10 minute seated pose in blue ballpoint pen

10 minute charcoal pose

10 minute charcoal, 5 minute chalk pose

2 minute chalk 2 minute charcoal pose

More Life Drawing 28/10/14

For this session I decided to experiment with standard office ink pens (blue and black). It definitely makes you think twice before making a mark as it cannot be erased. For the subtler shadows a pencil still has an ink pen beaten, but the image doesn't leap off the page in the same way.

5 minute standing poses

seated poses

reclining pose

Life Drawing 28/10/14

Using a hand made ink pen and sumi ink made for some interesting results when trying to capture a live pose. It was hard to avoid a making tone that was too dark, so I resorted to a lot of small lines to represent shadow, which worked with mixed success. When working on the thick A2 paper I found an affective way of achieving a midtone was scraping away the ink and dyed wallpaper paste with the side of my ink pen.

5 minute standing poses

20 minute standing pose with water sprayed on the paper

seated study - ink on wallpaper paste.