This is classwork for Week 2 of my DrawAwesome course. I used Staedtler Mars Lumograph Black pencils for all three of these drawings. (Reference photos from the class.) I am learning how to layer shading with the graphite.
Eye Study (Classwork)
Drawing
Still Life… Completed
This is the finished work. I used Staedtler Mars Lumograph Black pencils for the shading. The garlic cloves are out of place somewhat relative to the reference photo used in class.
Still Life… In Progress
This in-progess work is from a class project, using graphite, from DrawAwesome.
Portrait in Charcoal
So this is the completion.. I used charcoal pencils (2B and 6B) — over graphite and the colored pencil, so that was a fail — and willow charcoal.
Photo by Clarke Sanders on Unsplash
This one is more accurate…
Here’s another attempt — same reference and same tracing — (Photo by Clarke Sanders on Unsplash). Much closer, except for the model’s left side.
More Head Practice
Here I was drawing free-hand against a traced copy of the reference photo (by Clarke Sanders on Unsplash). I merged the free-hand and the traced to see how far (or how close) I was to actual proportions. I added red pencil to the free-hand version so the lines would show up better in comparison.
While the face is relatively in the same proportions as the original, it’s substantially smaller all around. (Sigh.)
Sketching another Head…
I’m following along in Nathan Fowkes’ charcoal portraits course, but using graphite and my sketchbook instead of charcoal and newsprint.
This is the initial step.
Sketching with overhand grip
I usually hold my pencil like I would for writing. But now I’m taking (one more!) online course — called Draw Awesome — taught by the same guy who taught on ArtTutor.com (which is closing its virtual doors in another week) and practicing an overhead grip.
First Pass.. Head Drawing
This is the first round — no detail, no shading — of a head based on the Reilly method, and as homework for the charcoal portraits online class I’m taking.
Image by Anastasia Gepp from Pixabay
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