Thursday, January 29, 2009

The Drawing Studio: Drawing Fundamentals 2, Week 3

This is a series of posts about my second class, Drawing Fundamentals 2, taken at The Drawing Studio, an artist's cooperative here in Tucson. Week by week, I plan to do a log of what we do in class.

Week three: ink. This week we used ink and a brush to draw, or paint, if you will, a still life of a plant. After the brush, I went in with a feather quill and filled in some lines. This was the result:

Friday, January 23, 2009

The Drawing Studio: Drawing Fundamentals 2, Week 2

This is a series of posts about my second class, Drawing Fundamentals 2, taken at The Drawing Studio, an artist's cooperative here in Tucson. Week by week, I plan to do a log of what we do in class.

For week 2, week experimented with texture. We arrived at class to find a large still life setting in front of us that included some yucca plants, cacti skeletons, and rocks. We all started out by roughing out the outline using graphite powder. We then took our graphite sticks, various erasers, chamois, and other tools to complete the drawing.

Here is the result:

Monday, January 19, 2009

The Drawing Studio: Drawing Fundamentals 2, Week 1

This is a series of posts about my second class, Drawing Fundamentals 2, taken at The Drawing Studio, an artist's cooperative here in Tucson. Week by week, I plan to do a log of what we do in class.

The first week of the class we tried our hand at drawing portraits: the close-up of the face. We split into two groups and took turns posing as others in the class drew us.

Here are the best ones that I did: