- I'm leaving and I'm taking all of the charcoal with me! - What?! Butt, you have to stay! 🤣 I swear, I don't plan these scenes, they just happen xD
Category: Drawings
Here’s a collection of drawings by Oksana Ossipov. These artworks are created using dry and wet media such as charcoal, pencils, pastels, and Copic markers. Some of these drawings are available for sale in her gallery.
I've noticed that on many occasions, I make my drawings too dark from the start. Not sure how to go about correcting this, I guess I need to press lighter on the charcoal stick? ^^; Or maybe I should try some value studies. Any tips?
Step through the mirror into the whole new world, where you can build anew.
I really love the sketch on the left, it's turned out very dynamic. I think I could make an awesome drawing based on it. Some day... 🙂
Pretty sure these are 20-minutre poses, but most likely I got distracted during the first one. Anyway, I like how both of these turned out. I think it's time to set new goals for the direction of my art, and maybe for a lengthy post in my blog about how I started 😀
I enjoy the geometric feel those extended lines add to the overall figure. Sometimes charcoal stick is bent, so it makes two parallel marks at the same time with only one movement of a hand. Quite often it results in a happy accident rather than an unwanted mark.
Sometimes I forget how short these 3-minute poses are, and concentrate too much on one particular part of the figure. As the result, I usually end up with armless Venuses xD
There used to be a time where I'd be unable to tell which model I drew. It was a generic figure and could have been anyone. So I've set my goal to make the figures more recognizable and individual, at least to me. I can tell the person from there drawings, and that makes me … Continue reading Female gesture poses, charcoal drawing
I think this was a longer 20-minute pose, but I can't be sure because at that time I didn't label or date my artworks >.<
This is a longer pose, so I had more time for details. However, I didn't switch paper, and it's tough to add and subtract on low quality paper ~_~