Portrait

Here is a quick portrait I made a couple of nights ago. Portrait - A5 sketchpad, 2B pencil I like the quickness of the drawing and the use of tone. I created the shape of the nose just with tone not line. I also like the quick bold lines to create the hair - there … Continue reading Portrait →

Some approaches to perspective through history

On this page I have included some pictures from different points in history to give a very fragmented look at how representation of perspective has been approached during different periods. I am simply going to respond to the pictures here and how they differ from one another. What I want to do is focus in … Continue reading Some approaches to perspective through history →

Open Cupboard 2 – Shoes

Here is another drawing I did two nights ago for the Open Cupboard exercise. Open Cupboard with Shoes - A2 paper, 2B pencil What I found really tricky in this one was the angle of the open door. I experienced a conflict. I could see right to the inner left edge of the cupboard. At … Continue reading Open Cupboard 2 – Shoes →

Open Cupboard

I found this exercise very challenging. I had to redraw a number of times to get the proportions right particularly the way objects related to one another. Just relying on lines seemed rather unforgiving, there was no way of covering up mistakes. The first few attempts were inevitably less successful (Open Cupboard 1 and 2). … Continue reading Open Cupboard →

Work for assignment two

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. The link called 'More on tone and form' shows further drawings I have done where I have practised applying tone more carefully after completing the … Continue reading Work for assignment two →

View from university library

Here is a sketch I did this week looking out of the library window where I work. View from university library, 2B pencil, A5 sketchpad

Tonal studies of various objects

Here are more drawings of objects I did over the last couple of days where I paid more attention to form. Onions - B2 pencil, A5 sketchpad Various objects 1 - B2 pencil, A5 sketchpad Various objects 2 - B2 pencil, A5 sketchpad Leaf - B2 clutch pencil, A5 sketchpad Various objects 3 - B2 … Continue reading Tonal studies of various objects →

Tonal studies of hands, parts of hands and various objects

Here are some drawings I made over the last few days where I more consciously attended to tone. Hands 1 - 2B pencil, A5 Sketchpad Hands 2 - 2B pencil, A5 sketchpad Hands 3 - 2B pencil, A5 sketchpad Hands and objects - 2B pencil, A5 sketchpad

Sitting and yoga poses

Here are some figure drawings I did which began to feel less childish than previous figure drawings I have done. I started each drawing by lightly pencilling in where the spine seemed to go, the head and then went from there. Yoga poses - 2B pencil, A5 sketchbook Sitting poses, 2B pencil, A5 skecthpad

Out and about

Here are two attempts at perspective I made while on a walk around Birmingham. I wince a bit now looking at both - the verticals in the first drawing of the canal needed to be vertical. Anyway, for me they were exercises in having a go at representing perspective in a city landscape. By a … Continue reading Out and about →