Now that I’ve completed “Drawing Essentials”, I am browsing through ArtTutor for more classes, and am interested in trying out charcoal. (I have memories of using charcoal pencils in grade-school art.) In any case, in this image, I tested out charcoal pencils (upper left), Comte pencils (upper right), vine charcoal (lower left) and compressed charcoal (lower right). The white –except for the Comte pencil example — is my General’s white “charcoal” pencil. The paper used is gray-toned Strathmore.
This drawing is based off a photo I found on Unsplash. I need to learn how to draw hair!
I am nearly finished with Drawing Essentials taught by Phil Davies. Here is some more recent stuff. I am not satisfied with the watering can, but the bowl of pears is halfway decent. I think I drew that bowl of pairs half a dozen times for various exercises.
With all the graphite laid down in the images, they are starting to smear.
So the first course I took on arttutor.com was Drawing Essentials, taught by Phil Davies. Excellent course; I loved it. And I think what I most liked about it was having the video and the ability to watch the expert do something and then it started clicking for me.. whereas reading in drawing fundamentals books doesn’t always translate to my beginner mind.
The above images came from reference drawings provided in the Drawing Essentials course. I had never drawn a horse before, nor had I come anywhere close to successfully drawing draped fabric, as with the towel above.
Portraits and the human figure are what interest me the most in drawing, and I love the way Lee Hammond shades her drawing. The blending is so much smoother and looks like paint, compared to, say, cross-hatching.
So, I am following along in her book and doing a few exercises in between working on my ArtTutor.com class.
These are just a few of the images/exercises I’ve done, focusing primarily on clothing and draped fabric.
I’m also practicing from some of my books.
The far left line indicating the back of the Brownie camera is off…
I had never heard of ArtTutor.com, but recently discovered it via a YouTube video, after I was looking for an online grid tool to use on some of my photos. (I first learned of using grids in Betty Edwards’ Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain.) After browsing — and buying a drawing course — I decided to get the membership. It certainly appears that it might be easier for me to “get” some drawing fundamentals if I can watch a skilled artist do it.
We’ll see!
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