Last night I had the worst nightmare of my entire life. It knocked me for six, and it’s stillskulking around in the corners of my brain today, I can’t seem to shake it off. Bear with me, this will relate back to drawing eventually… I’m not going to go into details, but it’s a ghost
Hand Drawing Number Three
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
Hand Drawing Number One
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
Hand Drawing Number Two
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
End of Project – A Self Portrait a Day
number 1 number 15 This is a wrap up and review of my project, a self portrait drawing aday for 20 days. What did I learn? Did my drawings improve? I missed five days, so only fifteen drawings and not twenty. Today I gotall the drawingsout and put them up on the wall side by
Self Portrait Drawing, 24th December 2005
Fifteenth in the series – a self portrait a day until Christmas. Fifteenth drawing and the last one. For this one I intended to do the same thing as yesterday but to finishthe drawing more. Everything was done the same as yesterday’s, I just worked on it for longer, about four hours this time.That’s the
Self Portrait Drawing, 23rd December 2005
Fourteenth in the series – a self portrait a day until Christmas. Back to charcoal for this one, which is feeling more and more like home turf. The mid toned papermeans more work in the highlights, I used a white pastel this time instead of conte. It’s a bitsofter and more forgiving, not as loose
Self Portrait Drawing, 22nd December 2005
Thirteenth in the series – a self portrait a day until Christmas. My goal with all these portraits has been, and will continue to be, to draw what I see. But I’m beginningto wonder if that’s a realistic aim. Sargent said “I do not judge, I only chronicle”. That’s what I’mtrying to do too. But
Self Portrait Drawing, 21st December 2005
Twelfth in the series – a self portrait a day until Christmas. It never ceases to amaze me how different these self portraits can be, one from another. I guess it depends on manythings, like the quality of the light, the materials I’m using, whether I’m on the boil or not on a particular day.
Self Portrait Drawing, 20th December 2005
Eleventh in the series – a self portrait a day until Christmas. Five days and no self portrait. Not good, but sometimes life gets in the way. Of course that means that I’ll bedown to 15 drawings at the end of the project instead of 20, which is disappointing, but it can’t behelped. I did
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