life drawing 31/08/2010

~A2 brown recycled paper with charcoal and chalk, 40 minute pose

life drawing 15/06/2010

life drawing 11/05/2010

Life drawing again this week, and I don't think it went as good as last week. As usual we started off with some 1 minute poses, and then a lot of 30 second poses. I experimented this week with using some thick charcoal sticks on their edge to get quick broad strokes, and then a bit of finger blending if I had time. I quite like how some of these turned out (wel, for 30 second sketches anyway! :)






Then I think the rest of the time we spend on 20 - 30 minute poses. I tried a few different things but I wasn't too happy with the proportions and layout.

On the plus side, the light seemed a bit better tonight, a lot of the time I'm finding it difficult to see shadows and tone on the models body but it seemed a bit clearer tonight.

Mostly charcoal with a bit of chalk on the sitting pose.

life drawing 04/05/2010

life drawing 27/04/2010

illustration friday - ahead

"ahead" - ink and brush with charcoal

mos with piano

charcoal drawing (it's 1280x1024 pixels, perfect for your desktop! :-)

life drawing 20/04/2010

Another night of drawing at the botanic gardens. These two are both 30 minute poses, both drawn in charcoal. The figure lying down was quite heavily blended, not so sure about the face on that one!

life drawing 13/04/2010

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

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.