First Ink Sketch
Author: cathmary1030
Portrait of a Toddler
Using a reference photo of myself at aged 3.
Studies of the Human Figure
Some of the drawings I’ve done of the human figure, referring primarily to books by Giovanni Civardi on drawing the nude, and the human figure. Compressed charcoal (upper left), graphite (upper right) and white Conte crayon on Strathmore gray-toned paper (bottom right).
Studies of Feet
Upper left drawing is based on an arttutor.com reference photo. The newborn’s feet are drawn from a photo by sippakorn on Pixabay.
Working with Pastels and Charcoal
I’ve been taking Rebecca de Mondenca’s pastel classes on arttutor.com, and this is some of my initial work from her class “A Beginner’s Guide to Pastels”.
I find I don’t care for the pastel paper that has the honeycomb look, although it can hold more pastel layering, given the “tooth” of the paper.
Most of these are from using the Dick Blick Artist’s Pastels (60 set), but the (finger) blended blues are Sennelier Landscape (30 set) pastels.
Mark Making in Charcoal
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.
My First Portrait
This drawing is based off a photo I found on Unsplash. I need to learn how to draw hair!
More from my Drawing Essentials class on ArtTutor
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.
Some of my work from the “Drawing Essentials” class
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.
BetterLateThanNeverArt 