having abandoned the thing I’m mean to draw next for lack of a decent subject (leaves, there’s a distinct lack of them round here….) I moved on to first a copy of a photo of a chair then the real thing. The one from the photo is a “negative space” drawing, so you sort [...]
the next few drawing tasks have been a challenge, mainly as the intended subjects weren’t available! First was to be a flower with a few leaves etc which, being autumn, are in short supply in my back yard (so I resorted to a plastic one which looked as unspeakably awful in real life as it [...]
following on from yesterday’s task, today it was draw your hand but with something in it. I wasn’t as happy with this hand as yesterday’s but can’t quite pin down why. I still think its way better than anything I’ve done before so whatever isn’t “right” can just stay like that. Actually, looking [...]
having had quite a break from the drawing with study taking up a lot of time, I’ve got back to it all today. So, today’s task? First balance your clear plastic view finder on your up-turned hand, close one eye, keep dead still and draw on round the image on your viewfinder using [...]
today’s task was to draw complete a half drawn picture of two profile faces that leave a gap that looks like a vase in the middle (know hte one I mean?) The idea was to trace over the already drawn side a few times then do the mirror. Whilst tracing and drawing you were supposed [...]
I’ve started the drawing book. I’m aiming to doa bit every day and to muse (or twitter – take your pick) about what I read/what I did. So today – “pre-instruction drawings”
The idea is to draw something as a benchmark so you can look back and see progress but also so you can see what [...]
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