Life Drawing Week 5

[maxvon_d]

Five weeks into the life drawing class and this week we returned to looking at tone in our drawings. This time we were practising starting with a midtone

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[vampyresheep]

Very good! I used to enjoy doing life-drawing when I lived in Cardiff. We experimented with that reverse technique of covering page with charcoal and using eraser to do the detail - great fun, very messy! :-)

[maxvon_d]

At the end of the second drawing my hands were pitch black covered with charcoal! Thankfully there was a sink and soap on hand afterward.

[vampyresheep]

Where I do my German classes, at the City Lit, the classroom next door is used for Art classes and it is quite amusing to see the sooty footprints all over the swanky new corridor carpet! - that was something they didn't bear in mind when designing the new college building!

I always enjoyed using charcoal and pastels but then I'm a mucky sod (or overgrown child?) anyway!

[maxvon_d]

I like the looseness of using charcoal - it encourages me not to draw too small and precisely which I always had a tendency to.

I'll have to check out your glass painting stuff at some point btw. Oh and glad you had a good time at Drop Zone - hope the Sunday suffering was worth it.

[vampyresheep]

Rob and I must be getting old - we both had aching limbs on Sunday! I do enjoy going to Drop Zone though, shame there is not an equivalent in London as Reading is one hell of a way to travel for a night out!

BTW *shameless plug alert* my website is www.blacksheepglass.co.uk