Ears are something I need to practice as well, mostly because I want to get the inner shapes right on a profile-view.
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Drawing Eyes – Graphite & Charcoal
I have several books on portrait drawing, and drawing facial features. This is practice drawing eyes, and remembering that eye is actually a ball. The eyelids wrap around the spherical shape of the eyeball.
Drawing A Rose
I had so much fun drawing this rose from life (“en plein air”) that I ended up drawing it a second time, in willow charcoal, and then using my NuPastels. This is the original drawing, done in graphite (2B) on ordinary drawing paper. (Pencil marks are terrible to view on the website).
Sometimes I get dissatisfied with the pastel landscapes I’m doing. There’s not a lot of drawing involved, and these fat sticks are irritating. I’m more and more inclined to draw and perhaps “color in” (as needed) with, say, watercolor.
Little Girl… A study in Pastel Pencil & NuPastels
Little Girl With Daisies
This drawing — done in graphite, compressed charcoal, and white Conte crayon — was based on a photograph from Pixabay, which I cropped and changed to grayscale.
Original image by Jill Wellington from Pixabay
Daily Drawing… Again
These sketches and figures are based off poses found in The Complete Book of Poses for Artists: A comprehensive photographic and illustrated reference book for learning to draw more than 500 poses, by Ken & Stephanie Goldman (Walter Foster Publishing, 2017).
I left the center-of-balance line in the sketch of the boy with the basketball; in the first sketch he is way off kilter in an unnatural pose.
More Daily Drawing
Still focused on regular daily drawing since it is the foundation for so much.
Figure Drawing
I was reading Mary Whyte’s book Painting Portraits and Figures in Watercolor (pub. 2011 by Watson-Guptill) and in it she talks about how imperative it is to watercolor painting to have good drawing skills, particularly if you are painting portraits or human figures. I suppose the same is true for other media, like pastel or oils. So, to that end, I did some drawing today.
Portrait of a Toddler
Using a reference photo of myself at aged 3.
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