Another fortnight later we cut to more life drawing and this time I get to try drawing on brown paper (ooo exciting!). Despite my sarcasm, I actually don't mind using brown paper as to me it reflects a more natural skin tone than white paper, so I see it being more pleasing to the eye and indicating to the mind that this is a slightly more realistic drawing. Emphasis on the word 'slightly' considering I still haven't managed to draw heads in it's proper proportions! And I don't believe that is a great problem because drawing large heads and eyes are part of my animation style, it's still not acceptable in life drawing.
Drawing on black paper is my favourite since I like using white chalk to highlight different areas of the body (also the lighting in the studio shows off more highlights than shadows so it gets a little easier, not going to lie). My best life drawings so far have been using white chalk on black paper, as I am able to create more 3-dimensioanl drawings with these materials. The hair and head in the one above could be a little less white and smudgy, and the hands became a little disproportioned, but besides from that I was generally pleased with this one!
Some 2-3 minute sketches on different poses, with and without props. The majority of them are better than last week's.
This exercise above is Negative Space, where you draw you outline of the body and colour around him, leaving a silhouette in the middle. A quick and exercise, but by no means easy, since I got most of the proportions all wrong here!
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