Art workshop on Saturday!
We are getting into the creative groove this Saturday!
Let me know if you would like to join us.
We will be drawing with pencil and black fineliner. A doodle type drawing will be our warm up excersise, then you will make a contour drawing followed by a pencil drawing focussing on how shadows reveal shapes.
Saturday, 16 May R160 pp, materials included
9.15 for 9.30 start
Tea and coffee always on tap!
205 Ringwood Drive, Pinelands
072 6070 778
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My attempt at contour drawing!
I attempted the contour drawing excersise today to see how I would fare.
There are a few things that I would do differently.
I set up a simple still life with a desk lamp lighting it from the back. There was a bit too much ambient life to emphasize the shadows dramatically enough, a stronger light would have been better.
Marking a border inside the edges of the page was helpful. I sketched the basic shape of my objects and the shape of their shadows, but instead of refining the various shadow and highlight areas with more contour lines, I started filling in the shadow areas from the lightest to the darkest.
I used my eraser extensively to get rid of unwanted lines and I also used it to smudge the pencil and create a smoother texture. Later as I went darker with my B6 pencil, I erased the lightest areas to make sure that they were not smudged over. I spent about one hour on the drawing.
It was a good excersise and one I will try again!
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