monday night lifedrawing 2011 08 01 + a wip

Late posts for the lat­est Mon­day night life draw­ing! Mostly because I wasn’t very happy with what I did this time.

The first draw­ing took roughly forty min­utes. Thirty min­utes into this we realised we’d for­got­ten to turn on a strong light source, so my shad­ing looks like a mixed of the strong shad­ows and the more neu­tral ones from the start of the ses­sion. Not a ter­ri­bly flat­ter­ing draw­ing, unfor­tu­nately. With the sec­ond pic­ture, I was work­ing more from the new light source and pushed a bit harder with how much I can do with an ink wash.

The more life draw­ing ses­sions I attend, the more I learn about myself, my art pref­er­ences and dif­fer­ent tips I can work into other things. For exam­ple, as much as I love vel­lum for mark­ers, I do not like it so much for soft, smudge­able char­coals and pen­cil washes.

To fill out this post a bit more, here’s a screen­shot from the rough what was going to be my lat­est piece for my cur­rent assign­ment in class:

An early draft from an envi­ron­ment design 3d modelling+texturing assignment

This would have been my lat­est piece if I hadn’t lost the file any­way :B