This is a contour drawing. We used colored pencil. You draw very slowly using with your pencil as parallel to the paper as possible. I am really bad at it. Although the ones I picked to put on here are pretty decent (lots of practice). We get 5 minutes for […]
This is a conte blocking. You take a piece of conte and use one tone to lay out the basic shape of the person, then you press harder to get another tone for the shadows. You only shade in the darkest shadows and you only use the 2 tones. You […]
This is a gesture drawing. They are fun to do, but complicated. You have to sit at the far edge of the bench with your arm straight, drawing by only moving your shoulder and/or elbow, holding the pencil at the back and so lightly that the teacher could just tap […]
This is the first straightline drawing we did for class. This took me the whole week to do and I didn’t get hardly any of her legs finished. Plus I think my teacher did some of it. God that one was so hard. It’s the same lady as the the […]
Just a quick note on sizes All work from class is done on 18 x 24 in paper so unless I take a picture of it to post the whole thing will not be on here. Practice from books is done in my 5 1/2 x 8 in notebook Actual […]
Hopefully I will only have 1 page of eyes left and then it’s on to the nose, but that is a much shorter chapter. These are not as good as the other ones. Nothing good from the daily sketch book.
Anything with a page number is practice from “The Human Figure” by John H. Vanderpoel. If I start practicing from another book I will note it in the caption.