then rubbed them off as much as possible (4B pencil) and used them as the background for a longer drawing -
which doesn't have enough chin and doesn't quite catch the model's downward tilted pose.
ok, try again, this time in charcoal - here's an early stage (complete with lines from the board underneath, transferred by the rubbed charcoal background) -
which eventually resolved into this -
Too much chin this time, and still not the right tilt ... There are two further weeks to work on getting it right - I must say the prospect doesn't fill me with joy at the moment!
Everyone else is painting, but I'm not ready for grappling with colour. My (self-imposed) task is to learn to see - and while it would be interesting to "see" flesh colours, it's difficult enough at this stage to "see" proportions and angles and planes and facets. And tilts and chins.
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view of the other side of the room |
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still life of oils |
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acrylics in conversation |
2 comments:
I think they're good -- definitely getting the sense of the (difficult) pose.
I too find life drawing challenging and I have been working with pencil monochrome but then I really wanted to paint so I just went for it .....I have still got a lot to learn with pencil but I wanted a break from that so I started painting.
Jaquinta
doodleon.blogspot.co.uk
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