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 →

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 →

Arrangement of organic forms 4

Here are some more sketches of arrangments of different fruit. The shape of the lemon in the second isn't quite right but I got that a bit better I think in the third. Drawing the forshortening of the bananas has also proved quite tricky - I sometimes have to keep correcting what I have put … Continue reading Arrangement of organic forms 4 →

Arrangement of organic forms 3

Here are a couple of sketches I did last week of a larger arrangement of fruit in a bowl. I don't quite pull the definition off in the second one where I apply tone. Bowl of fruit 1 - A4 sketchpad & 2B pencil Bowl of fruit 2 - A4 sketchpad and 2B & 6B … Continue reading Arrangement of organic forms 3 →

Open Cupboard 4

Here are another couple of attempts at the open cupboard exercise, this time looking down. I got a bit confused about where the vanishing point was for the horizontals of the cupboard facing the viewer. Initially I was looking to the right but I thought ‘how could that be possible because the vanishing point needs … Continue reading Open Cupboard 4 →

Charles Avery

Here are two illustrations by a contemporary artist, Charles Avery (from Vitamin D2 New Perspectives in Drawing, Phaidon, London 2013). I like the quirky fantasy / imaginative themes and the detail. The figures have strange wiry forms and both pictures are unsettling, the first more obviously with the hybrid creatures mixed with recognisable refuse from … Continue reading Charles Avery →

Open Cupboard 3

Here is another attempt at the Open Cupboard exercise. This time I have incorporated 2 point perspective following my reflections in my blog post ‘Open Cupboard 2’ as I stood at an angle to the face of the cupboard and could see the inside face of the cupboard door. The first version is a preliminary … Continue reading Open Cupboard 3 →