Project 3: 5 Preliminary Studies with B/G (Study 4)

This is a new peice done in soft Pastels and Pastel Pencils on Cartridge paper, I have taken the image with a camera and not scanned it in as one its A2 and secondly the fixate hasn't fixed all the pastels... So the quality of the image isn't as good as it would have been if I scanned it in. Why it hasnt I don't know but if I add more fixative the pastels especially the white seems to vanish.

I thought I would have a go with Pastels; I had a lot of problems getting the fixative to work. Don’t know if it’s the brand of pastels I have used or the paper, I’ll try the proper pastel paper next time rather than using cartridge paper. I’m really happy with the image; I love the colours I’ve used on the figure I thought I would intensify the purples and greens in the shadows areas. If I have to change something I would look at the background as it went a lot darker once the fixative was. Maybe adding a cast shadow from a window blind on the back wall would help I feel its needs something there. I would also rework the towel and add fewer folds and maybe change the colour to a sea green.

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Project 3: 5 Preliminary Studies with B/G (Study 3)

Designer Gouache with an ink pen was used as the medium to produce this piece. To be truthful I’m not sure what I feel about this picture, it’s not something to rave about but at the end of the day I’m running out of time with this project and need to move on. It’s a full figure image with a background which is required to complete the project: however I would like to remove the ink from the contours as I don’t think it adds anything at all to the overall image. The image was taken from a camera so the quality isn't as good as a scan; I was too lazy to scan it in.

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Project 3: 5 Preliminary Studies with B/G (Study 1 & 2)

I am now required to do a minimum of 5 preliminary studies with the figure needs to relate to the background and surrounding space, then the final peice… Some of these you have seen before and have been changed, added a background etc, some of them are new.

Study One: This now has colour, it was a black and white pencil drawing as I didn't have the time to add watercolour to the image, also a background has been added.

Study Two: Has not been changed at all this was done with Charcoal in my last Life Drawing Class.

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Project 3: Drawing & Painting Full Lenth Figure (W8)

I took the Charcoal Powder into the Life Drawing Class, this is my last Life Drawing class so no more Thursdays at college anymore :( I wanted to use Charcoal as it was the medium I choose to use in my first Life Drawing class which can be found here After looking at the drawing below and comparing it with the first drawing I think there has been a few minor improvements, well thats what I think…

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Project 3: Full Lenth Figure (W7 @ Home)

Sorry I've not posted anything for a couple of weeks, we have had a few Bank holidays in the UK this month and this means no college on Fridays due to Good Friday and the so called Royal Wedding which I can say I was lucky enough not to see any of it !!! I will try and update a few things very soon, the finish Full Length project is due in less than a week and I’m nowhere near finishing also I’m supposed to have started the next project as well...

Below are a couple of Charcoal drawings I did the model were from the Virtual Pose 3 Cds. I first did an under drawing using charcoal powder mixed with water and applied it onto cartridge paper. Then I used a putty eraser to remove some on the marks and added another coat to make the shadow areas darker. They both turned out ok so I might try this in the Life Drawing Class at the end of the week...

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Project 3: Drawing & Painting Full Lenth Figure (W7)

After doing watercolour all week at home I decided to use them in the Life Drawing Class, the first one is a watercolour painting with a 0.8 tip drawing Pen, this was done on hot press paper. The seconded image I used a marker instead of the drawing pen and choose different colours then then general skin colour, I did do an underdrawing first with a pencil. The second one was taken with a camera and not scanne din.

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Project 3: Full Lenth Figure (W6 @ Home)

As I didn't get chance to finish off the watercolour in the Life Drawing class I decided to practice at home with the watercolour paint and pencils as it isn't my favourite medium. I managed to get a tutorial dvd called Paining Figures in Watercolour by Ruth Block I would recommend getting a copy if you can it is available if you know where to look. Below are a few examples which I have produced this week:

The below are in one colour they are basically silhouettes but I've added a second coat for the shadow parts. These only took a couple of minutes to do I spent more time waiting for the paint to dry.

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The below I've left some white spaces around the figure and also use 2 colours one for the clothes and one for sking. By leaving white spaces where two colours meet the colours wont wont run together. This is the first drawing Ive done with some clothes on the model, I might try a few more.




I then moved on to the watercolour pencils the first drawing I used the watercolour pencil first then added water on top then reaplied some pencil.






I made stronger mies on the watercolour paints by using less water I wanted the colours to be stronger, I also used ink applied with a brush for the contours. I need to use a smaller brush or work on the brush strokes as its all over the place. I might try this again but use ink instead of watercolour paint.





I have used a Drawing Pen aith the waterpaints, for a change the model is also wearing some garments. With a bit of practice I think I will be able to produce something reasonable from using this technique.

Project 3: Drawing & Painting Full Lenth Figure (W6)

I wanted to do watercolours this week in the Figure Drawing Lesson but unfortunately I never got that far, I had to sort something out for my daughter at college so I was in and out of the room a lot. I managed to get the drawing onto the watercolour paper so later this week I will use the watercolours with it. The drawing at the bottom was done in 15 mins as that’s what left at the end of the lesson and I didn’t want to start with the watercolour paints. I’ve used oil pastels for the contour and filled it in with soft pastels, I might try other stuff like this I like the vivid colours. The model had moved slightly in the bottom drawing as the belly button is in a different position.

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Project 3: Full Lenth Figure (W5 @ Home)

This week I’m looking at watercolour, I really don't like watercolour never had done. Every time I use it I make mistakes and it’s very hard to cover up the mistakes once it is dry. Below is the pencil drawing and also the watercolour version:


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The watercolour has ended up ok better then every other time I have used it. I’m not saying it’s perfect far from it but there’s an improvement since the last time I used them. I will be taken the watercolours into the Drawing Lesson at the end of the week and see how I get on with them. Its a bit of a mix media one as well as using watercolours Ive also used white Designers Gouache for the highlights.

Project 3: Full Lenth Figure (W4 @ Home)

I needed to do different approaches for this figure drawing brief and as I haven’t looked at painting yet I decided to give it a go. The below was done in Acrylics I didn't do any under drawing I just went for it with a paintbrush, it was a big mistake...  I made a lot of mistakes on this one which I tried to cover up with white acrylic, I also had another problem don't know if it was the paint I was using but if you have a look at the right leg the paper has been ruined. The paint peeled away like masking fluid which destroyed the paper, after that I gave up on the painting, I don't know why this happened but if anyone else knows why it ids please LMK. I will be using acrylics at the end of the week in the Life Drawing class.

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