Tone study

Charcoal on Paper 18x24

I had an okay week in class's. I think I blew my art history quiz. I confused styles of the dutch and french landscape paintings of the 1600's, DOH! Oh well, I should get a "C" on it at least. I've been getting B-'s and A-'s on all of them so far so 1 screw-up won't matter. Maybe it will be a B- this time.
We worked on this tone study drawing all class long on monday, about 4 hours of work.

Soft Pastels on Tan Pastel Paper 18x24

My life drawings did not come out so well. The face looks too flat, I covered up the highlights too much I think. Maybe I should have put shadows in just like if I was viewing her from the front.
 


















I do not like how this conte drawing came out.
I tried to draw her foot also in the extra space. I don't know what else to say about this one but that she had a nice tattoo, lol.

Well still gotta work on my final self portrait more to get it going. Hopefully this next week will be better.

More 2 Point Perspectives and Life Drawing Sketches

2 point perspectives interior and exterior

Well it was another good week of class's. My Drawing 1 teacher is really pushing 2 point perspective. With good reason I guess since it is very important to creating realistic drawings. This first one is just drawing the lines on some photos we had to find which shows us that indeed they converge on two points.

2 Point Perspective Drawing Graphite on Paper 18x24

This next one is after I added more items to my drawing. (the earlier drawing is on my last post) I forgot to put in curtains, some other students did some great drawings. I only got 3 extra credit points for the extra items on this drawing. But every little bit helps.

2 Point perspective sketch 18x24

 These are another 2 point perspective drawing that we started in class with hand sketching the items he set out.

2 Point Perspective Lines 72x24

When we got home we had to add some sheets and draw out the lines to the vanishing points to see how far off we draw things. I was surprised at how close I was. I was really close on the bottom items, but the higher the items got I was more off.

3x4 inch Thumbnail Sketches

It was a busy night in that class. The last 30 minutes or so we had to do some composition thumbnails for our next tone drawing that's going to be in charcoal. The check mark is the composition that I will be doing in class tonight.

Graphite on Paper 18x24

Soft Pastel on Ivy Colored Pastel Paper 18x24

Life drawing class is always fun but a bit frustrating, lol. I am certainly better with straight lines. We had a male model and I did 3 drawings.




















I do like working with the soft pastels.

Conte on Tan Pastel Paper 18x24

This was the first drawing of the night and I think I am finally starting to figure out why I draw people
with elongated bodies. First reason may be that I am either moving my viewfinder down as I am moving down the body.

















Or as you can see on my life drawing final project of a

Self Portrait Watercolor on Paper 72x18 inchs

life sized self-portrait, I wear long clothing and am
subconsiously making my drawing match that
preconceived ideal. Not that I am ideal, lol. I lined up this drawing with what I was wearing so it is accurate with the length of things. I did have to shorten up things a little to be able to fit on the 72 inch paper(I'm 73 inches tall). Either way I need to break myself of that bad habit. I am trying a new medium with the watercolors. First time trying them at all. Is that crazy or what to try a new thing for the final project? Still need to do a lot to it like shading, the folds and twist in my clothes, and the background. I still have 2-3 weeks to complete it. I'm basing it off the 3 photos on the right.