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