I always feel like the stool looks out of place in my drawings. Perhaps I need to work in the horizon line or define the flat area on the floor to ground both the figure and the stool? 🤔
Tag: charcoal
Come on, get up so that you can get drawn better! xD Seated poses are still much harder to do ^^; I think these are 20-minute poses. Charcoal on construction paper. Model: @taylour_bogdan
I think I did better here with highlights, but maybe it's best to stay in two-toned palette right now. I think highlights are a good tool to distract the viewer from negative parts of the drawing 🤨
Using here willow charcoal, conte crayons, and white Rembrandt pastels on construction paper. I wanted to keep white only for highlights, but kind of went overboard. Need to practice my values 🙂
I'm trying out all kind of materials as I learn to draw. This is a rough construction paper, and it has a charming feel to it. It certainly isn't the best paper for serious work since it doesn't even photograph that well. For example, those wavy wrinkles are almost invisible in real life. However, it's … Continue reading Female figure, charcoal drawing
These are 10-minute charcoal sketches. I think if I had more time, I'd soften those outlines a bit.
Okay, now you know what half-n-half looks like 😂 I think these are 7-minute sketches 🙂
- 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
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?
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