Module 7 done early!

Here's the finished version of my torso drawing. I'm pretty happy with this one. There are a couple of places I could tweak it a little, but I don't want to overwork it. I'm finally getting used to working with the charcoal, learning it's little idiosynchrasies.

Photography this week had to do with observing the differences in the lighting of the same scene taken two different ways. I chose to take my pics of one of my drawing casts both in open shade and with flash. Can you tell which is which?

End of Module 6

Another week, another pair of homework entries.

First up, we've finally started drawing something that looks like people! Like the drapery study, the first week is the contour and basic light and dark shapes. There's a couple of things to fix form-wise yet, but I think I've got a handle on it. This coming week is all about finesse and gradually bringing the forms out. And I'm jazzed about the grade I received on the drapery, much better than I had expected.

And here is my lovely model, she stayed still the whole time.

Photography this week was all about movement and how to show it by manipulating exposure times. I laid flat on my back on my bedroom floor for an hour taking pic after pic. I experimented with all sorts of shutter speeds and apertures. I settled on using the slow-sync feature on my camera with a long exposure then firing off the flash on my other camera so I could get two sets of blades in the pic.

Module 5, or Why cold meds and drawing don't mix

Here we go, not as good as I'd have liked, but I'm about out of time. Besides the sinus medicine is messing with me and I keep getting lost in all the folds. It did turn out better than I thought it would from looking at the block-in from last week.

And in photography "energy" was the theme of this weeks assignment. So I went hither and yon looking for the perfect pump-jack to take pics of. Oh, for those that don't know, a pump-jack is the thing that pulls the crude oil out of the ground. It only took me 2 separate trips and 20-30 miles to find this fine specimen right here.

Module 4

I know, I'm behind. My drapery drawing is taking forever, but here's where it was at at the end of Mod 4. We had to just squint and do the big light and dark shapes. Refinement will be in Mod 5. At this point it just looks like a big mess, but having worked on it since I can see it may just workout.

For photography the assignment was a shot of hands. My hands, your hands, the hands down the street, whatever. But me being me, I just had to bend the rules. So we have a picture of my work gloves with my chainsaw. I like the light in this one and the way the gloves look.

So, as all the kids say on myspace, leave me comments! Let me know what you think or that you were here so I don't feel like I'm talking to myself.