Drawing Update 7#

Today in Tom's session we again did life model drawing, but this time used ink as a medium. My initial thoughts on this were 'oh no, not again' as I disliked using it last year, but I found this exercise with ink wasn't too bad. Today also marked the first session were we focused on shading instead of just the outlining shape.

We began with 30 second poses, and tried to get down as many lines we could on the page, but primarily focus on getting the shading done. We also had to use sticks we found outside to do them with. Here are the results:

Not really happy with these. Ive never gotten used to actually creating anything remotely similar to the human body in these 30 seconds, theres no time to actually look at the body and draw the shape correctly, and I end up with these weird looking aliens. Also my stick has a bend to it and difficult to hold in my hand. But I did get the shading down in some way, which I am happy about.

The next exercise we drew 3 sketches of 3 different 20 minute poses. We did it with pencil, only doing the outline shape and size of the body, with no details as we would then go back and go over it in ink. Here is what it looked like before we went on to add the ink:

Quite happy with these 3. I feel they show the progress I've made in the past few weeks. In fact I was worried Id ruin the sketches when applying the ink and lose the work. But luckily wed be using paint brushed instead of the sticks, which I was grateful for. I went with small brush size instead of Toms advice to use a larger brush, as I know my skill with a brush are quite amateur, and a smaller brush would mean a less chance of me going over the line and messing the drawing.

But thankfully it came out well:

I'm happy with what I created, although for the first drawing I misunderstood what Tom had asked us to do, and messed up the shading for it. I did attempt to fix it, and have to some extent, although it still looks like there seems to be 2 light sources on either sides. Tom also said we could go over the pencil outline at the end so there'd be no trace of the pencil, but we had to do it with the stick again, insted of the brush. I did go for the ink outline on the first one, but the ink wasnt drying fast enough and was smudging at some parts, so I didnt for the other two as I could see the ink was still wet.