19/04/20010

I wanted to try a more illustrative style tonight, of the 3 drawings, this one turned out the best. Sketched in pencil then drawn with ink and brush. I think next time I'll go for a more sketchy look than this.

life drawing 13/04/2010

The life drawing class at the botanics has a good friendly atmosphere, plus, biscuits at half time!

red chair 12/04/2010 - and how jpegs can fail us

Pencil Drawing. Some figure practice, drawn from a Dr Sketcheys photo posted on facebook. I was trying to reduce the noise levels and accidentally made it red but I quite liked it so I kept it like that. Unfortunately Jpeg images can't handle pure colour very well so it turned out even more blurry when I uploaded it!!
Update: Aha, I made it a .png file and that fixed it! (the blurry one is the crappy jpeg for comparison)

life drawing 30/03/2010

5 Minute pose, sanguine pencil. Focusing on the shade instead of lines

5 Minute pose, using the side of a charcoal stick to do fast, broad strokes.

Another 5 minute pose, charcoal.

30 minute pose, pencil.

ink and water sketches

I felt unproductive while watching TV, so every so often I would pause what I was watching (The Wire, season 2 !) and do a quick sketch of who was onscreen. These are very quick messy sketches done with a rotring fountain pen. I noticed this pen smudged a lot when in contact with water so I experimented with using a wet brush over the drawings. I think some of them turned out quite interesting.

moleskine drawings

some ink drawings done on a moleskine sketchbook. the statue was coloured with felt pens, the balloons were coloured with watercolour paints.

life drawing 16/03/2010

This was one of the longer poses we drew on the night, time taken was around 30 minutes. The drawing is A3 size, pencil on cartridge paper.