Life Drawing

Just a quick update with some life drawing sketches that I've done recently (the ones that I am happiest with). The top was done with charcoal the others are done with a standard pencil. And all the drawings had different lengths of time, though I can't remember exactly what was what.

One day I'll think of an original title...

I found this sketch that I did a couple of years ago and I thought I would post it up as it's something that I still quite like.

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Just a dragon drawing from a different perspective

Planning some of my next 100 themes challenges- and at the bottom there is my idea for 'Insanity'

My finished drawing for 'Innocence' and above on the planning page you can see my rough sketch

Thought I would try some foreshortening on this last picture and now I'm actually really trying to put a lot of thought into my drawings, rather than just putting pencil to paper and seeing what happens. I feel that my drawings come out looking more visually appealing but I still have a long way to go. I will colour these at some point- well the last couple at least.

 

And these pictures were just some life drawings that I did when I went to the local Botanical Gardens. And I managed to draw the Pukeko before he escaped into the underbrush which is always a plus. Just trying to keep up the old drawing skills, and drawing from life always forces me to draw faster which is always good practice for me.

Quick Update

The lack of posts have been due to me going camping over the long weekend. It was a fantastic weekend, just isn't so good for my regular updates. And I have quite a few things to catch up with now that I'm back, so I thought I would just chuck up a few photographs that I have taken recently before posting any other art.

Just a couple of birds at the local Gardens. The top one is a common sparrow while the bottom one is a finch of some kind I believe. Just trying some close-up nature pictures. Man these guys don't stay still for long!

Life Drawing

These are just a few pictures from last drawing that I have been doing over the past couple of weeks with different models. I quite like the way that they have turned out, so I thought I would put them up here. All done in charcoal- the one on the left was rubbed away where as the other two on the right were just done in a more standard way. The one at the bottom was of a 'movement' series, where we drew the figure for one minute in each position. It was a fun exercise, and nice to do something a bit different.