Drawing your own hands and feet: Finished pieces

Here are the final versions I created for the hands and feet exercise. I was fairly pleased with the hands one - drawing the fist or the hands with the palm facing upwards seems to work better - I experienced this even in the preparatory drawings...I wonder why that is. Perhaps it is because there … Continue reading Drawing your own hands and feet: Finished pieces →

Drawing your own hands and feet: Preparation

As a preliminary to doing this exercise I spent a day and half filling two old sketch books with sketches of my hands and feet using different media. I also played about with colour a bit using colour crayons and oil pastels for a few of these studies, but mainly I used pencil, fine liner … Continue reading Drawing your own hands and feet: Preparation →

Still Life – 2nd Attempt

I had a second go at the still life exercise, and the drawings I produced this time are shown below along with a photograph of the original still life as a point of contrast. I am a bit happier with these - the bottles look more bottle-like anyway. This time I used black paper taped … Continue reading Still Life – 2nd Attempt →

Still Life

For this exercise I drew five glass bottles using the suggested media - first fine liner pens, then a soft pencil (an 8B) and lastly a charcoal pencil. All three drawings are shown together in the first photograph below to aid contrast and then close ups of each individual drawing are shown in the photographs … Continue reading Still Life →

Work for assignment 3

Please click on the following links which will take you to the relevant pages of this blog that contain further links to the work I have done for this assignment. I have also included a link to recent reading I have done about other artists. This is not directly related to the assessment but I … Continue reading Work for assignment 3 →

Arrangement of organic forms 7

The following are drawings I have done over the last week. Again, I attempted to draw pomegranites in all of these. The first ('Two whole pomegranites') is more dramatic than the others because of the contrast of very light and dark tones. I used 8B for the first time in this particular drawing. Two whole … Continue reading Arrangement of organic forms 7 →

Arrangement of organic forms 6

Yesterday (a Sunday) I tried drawing a cut open pomegranite which I thought looked interesting. Here is what I prodcued. The last one (the third drawing below) I drew 'huge' on an A2 sheet of paper. It didn't work so well - I think this is a subject that works better more carefully drawn so … Continue reading Arrangement of organic forms 6 →

Arrangement of organic forms 5

Here are some more drawings of organic forms I did last week and over the last weekend. The last is the most convincing because of the application of tone more than anything though I did try to add more definite lines to the banana nearer the foreground. The bottom of the grapefruit is not rounded … Continue reading Arrangement of organic forms 5 →

Steven C. Harvey

When I was a child and teenager I loved science fiction drawings particularly those with lots of detail so I chose these drawings by Steven C. Harvey (from Vitamin D2 New Perspectives in Drawing, Phaidon, London 2013) with that connection in mind. However, there is more going on in these pictures than basic fantasy - there … Continue reading Steven C. Harvey →

Njideka Akunyili

The following drawings by the artist Njideka Akunyili are taken from Vitamin D2 New Perspectives in Drawing, Phaidon, London 2013. There are two reasons why I chose to include these in my learning blog here. One is the beautiful drawing and painting of the figures capturing their posture and movement and communicating a range of … Continue reading Njideka Akunyili →