I decided to play around with a few different techniques with this exercise, so I started out drawing 6 different angles of my face. Using charcoal and not taking it off the paper I drew a continuous line of different views of my face from a small pocket mirror. Continuous line, charcoal. A1 This was …
Getting familiar with each facial feature I found helped me to place each one convincingly on the face, and understanding the bone structure underneath the skin was a good way of developing my perception of the forms and angles that I could see on the surface, and what was not visible. Starting off with the …
Now we are getting back to a bit of normality I was finally able to attend a life class held locally by Inch Arts, (https://www.facebook.com/InchArts), which can now become a regular weekly two hour session for me. For the first half we did three 5 minuet poses followed by a 25 minuet pose. Conte stick …
My point of reference to the whole topic of the human head and face is a book by Andrew Loomis, 'Drawing the Head and Hands', Titan Books, Andrew Loomis. Sectioning the head into thirds and adding in the detail was one lesson, but drawing a grid onto a plastic golf ball and pressing wooden skewers …
Drawing the figure is one thing, under a time limit is another skill, but, drawing a moving scene is another skill set in itself. I headed out into the city centre to see if I could capture the hustle and bustle of Manchester prime.....to be fair though I turned up on an early Saturday morning …
The aim of this exercise was to draw a standing, seated and lounging figure, keeping in mind the balance, posture and pivot points of the different poses. For this I used my work from the life classes I have been attending. Seated and lying pose, charcoal and conte stick A1Seated, charcoal, conte and water A1 …
Getting familiar with the anatomy as a whole is one thing, but looking closely at the individual structure of the human form, and more importantly how the different parts and sections connect and work with each other, helping to identify not just what is going on on the outside, but how the bone structures are …
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Before starting this exercise I decided to look into folds in fabric, and was surprised to find that there are only 6 main types of fold, and that a lot fabric folds are just combinations of these depending on the point of contact with the object underneath, governed by slack and tension. 6 fabric folds …
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This was an exercise to see how accurate my guess work was when it came to estimating perspective. A simple task to use all the reference points I could to construct a building without drawing in the vanishing points or perspective lines until after the drawing was finished. I chose a simple three story building …
The view of the beach from Anglesey bridge on and nice clear day is amazing, so when asked to do a 360 degree study of an expanse, I thought straight away of this. The brief was to face a direction, spend 15 minuets sketching the view, turn 90 degrees, another 15 minuets, and so on …
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