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Eye Drawing Number Six

January 21, 2006 By: Paul1 Comment

Posted 26th February 2006 Back to Twenty drawings of eyes

Hand Drawing Number Six

January 21, 2006 By: Paulcomment

Posted 21st January 2006 This one is a copy of a drawing by Raphael. The original is done in ink, so I used only a 6B for this one, hoping to get a similar depth to theline. I can’t say its a very close copy of the original, but I don’t mind. Copying an old

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Hand Drawing Number Five

January 21, 2006 By: Paulcomment

Posted 21st January 2006 This one was done in a bit of a rush. The light was fading fast, but the tones and shadows were nice and Ididn’t want to miss them. Drawings one to three were all done by electric light, four and five by natural light.I don’t know what it is about natural

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Hand Drawing Number Four

January 21, 2006 By: Paulcomment

Posted 21st January 2006 This was actually the second I drew today, the first one ending up in small pieces in the bin. Ireally must stop doing that. In order to avoid all these hand drawings being from the same viewpoint, I drew this one in themirror, with my hand relaxed and my wrist resting

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Hand Drawing Number Three

January 17, 2006 By: Paulcomment

posted 17th January 2006 This drawing is a kind of practice of hatching. Hatching is as old as the hills, and involves describing tone by overlapping lines running in differentdirections, crossing over each other. The more layers of lines the darker the tone. My hatching isn’t allthat neat. On some old master drawings you can

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Hand Drawing Number One

January 12, 2006 By: Paulcomment

Posted 12th January 2006 This is the first in a new series, twenty drawings of hands. So far I’m taking a slightly different approach with these hand drawings, compared to theself-portrait drawings. I’m notdoing any measuring, no grids and no viewfinders. For this drawing I started with the crook between the thumb and thetop side

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Hand Drawing Number Two

January 1, 2006 By: Paul2 Comments

Posted 17th January 2006 This one is a more economical drawing than the last one. Once I’d done the outline, in the same wayas the last one, I had half a mind to leave it with no shading at all since it looked kind of completeas it was. When I did put the shading in

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Hi, I’m Paul

I'm a (mostly) self-taught artist. I paint realism in oils, mostly still life. I share my work, my evolving process and what knowledge I've gained on my own learning journey here, in the hope that it might help you on yours.
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