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- Sat Oct 28, 2023 6:51 am
- Forum: Graphite Pencil Drawing
- Topic: Macro Drawing
- Replies: 2
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Macro Drawing
Continuing our work with tones, this week we explored Macro drawing - taking a small area of a subject and blowing it up large. Really investigating the tones and minute details in a large way. Our chosen subject was a red capsicum (a.k.a. bell pepper)' You can see/read the full blurb about the crea...
- Sat Oct 28, 2023 6:45 am
- Forum: Graphite Pencil Drawing
- Topic: "Call me Jack" - FINISHED
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5033
Re: "Call me Jack" - FINISHED
Wow! this is great! You just keep getting better and better!
- Sat Oct 14, 2023 10:04 pm
- Forum: Coloured Pencil Drawing
- Topic: Vietnamese Lady WIP
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2341
Re: Vietnamese Lady WIP
It is a lovely, ethereal drawing, that also exhibits your skill and technique well. You handle the medium beautifully and have created a moment in time drawing. re the camera - you said you were using a Cannon Power Shot?, as I think I mentioned to you in class, check out the settings, look for the ...
- Sat Oct 14, 2023 9:55 pm
- Forum: Graphite Pencil Drawing
- Topic: Prismacolor Ebony 14420
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2201
Prismacolor Ebony 14420
While lurking around my local factory outlet art store, Rossdale's, I found a graphite pencil I haven't used before, the Prismacolor Ebony 14420. A few test scribbles and I was hooked. This pencil is a very intense dark, somewhere around a 6 or 8 B. But the lead is not grainy or crunchy, but smooth ...
- Sat Oct 14, 2023 9:35 pm
- Forum: Graphite Pencil Drawing
- Topic: Timeless an old woman
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2318
Re: Timeless an old woman
I guess that's the problem with cameras, they can only record what they see. [/i] Yes, but photographers (like this one) are artists in their own right and will manipulate an image, increasing saturation and contrast. Which is what I suspect has happened here. Your drawing is a faithful reproductio...
- Sat Oct 14, 2023 9:28 pm
- Forum: Graphite Pencil Drawing
- Topic: "Call me Jack" - FINISHED
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5033
Re: "Call me Jack"
fight back against bad habit of leaving the empty holes of the eyes Its not a 'bad habit', many artists work this way. Personally, I have found that as eyes are so important to the overall image, if I leave them to last, and then stuff them up after ALL THAT FUR WORK, it is just devastating. So I l...
- Sat Oct 14, 2023 9:24 pm
- Forum: Graphite Pencil Drawing
- Topic: Mum portrait... FINISHED
- Replies: 29
- Views: 5847
Re: Mum portrait... FINISHED
Nice work Pogs - you can see the love shining through, from her and from you. I like her smile.
- Sun Sep 17, 2023 1:08 pm
- Forum: Member's News
- Topic: Bestiary Mechanica
- Replies: 4
- Views: 911
Re: Bestiary Mechanica
And I can't help but feel that you have an enormous amount of fun creating these works. Coming up with the idea is fun. Playing around with it and sketching it is fun. Working out the composition, etc is fun. but the actual execution? eh. That can be somewhat tedious. Parts are fun, like the free f...
- Thu Sep 14, 2023 10:20 pm
- Forum: Member's News
- Topic: Bestiary Mechanica
- Replies: 4
- Views: 911
Re: Bestiary Mechanica
Another teaser for you Mike! Just completed last week, the final work in this exhibition 'Serpentis Maris'. enjoy!
- Thu Sep 14, 2023 10:18 pm
- Forum: Tools, Materials, and Techniques
- Topic: Failing to achieve darker tones
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3388
Re: Failing to achieve darker tones
and this is important - do have a smooth and hard surface directly under your paper. This is a key point. So many times I have to tell students this - don't draw on a bouncy, cushiony surface like a pad of paper! One way I teach to get darks is to layer and layer, alternating the stroke directions ...