For this exercise I found I had the time, but not the correct size paper, so I stuck two pieces of A3 together to make A2. Hence the join, bang in the middle of this drawing, but as I say, I had the time so went for it! As Read more…
Creating shadows using lines and marks I chose a Biro, HB pencil, 0.3 and 0.1 graphic pen to draw a metal 1 pint cup. This was quite a fun exercise and one that helped me to realise I very much use the same effect when shading, which is to blend Read more…
Observing shadow using blocks of tone I chose to draw a tea-caddy and lemon, lit from the left and on my desk. The first drawing is in HB pencil on A3 cartridge paper. I normally only choose HB pencil for quick sketches in my sketchbook but for this I wanted Read more…
Groups of objects Once I had grouped the objects together I sat and visualized ‘seeing’ through them and as basic three dimensional shapes. I chose an A2 light brown sugar paper to draw on using a 3B pencil. To note, I sat a little bit higher and had the objects Read more…