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| Continuous line, pen. |
Time is a very strange thing, Life Drawing Thursdays seem to come around ever so quickly and yet I often feel that two weeks is a long time between sessions. I'm not sure I could manage running the sessions weekly yet somehow every other week isn't quite right either. Maybe we should have a 10 day week (with a 4 day weekend of course) instead of a 7 day week?
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| Continuous line, pen |
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| Continuous line, pen |
Anyway, the second session in this block was another enjoyable session. I still feel quite rusty and out of practice but less so than last session. We had a new model who gave us some excellent poses and a new artist as well, which is great as hopefully word is spreading. It would probably spread faster if I got better at advertising but you can't do everything well!
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| Ballpoint pen, continuous line |
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| Pen on prepared paper |
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| Pen, drawn without looking at paper |
I especially enjoyed my pen drawings this session. I find continuous line drawing with a decent pen is a truly satisfying experience, the feel of the pen across the paper and the smooth, sweeping movements is very rewarding. I also like the aesthetic of continuous line drawings which helps and the challenge of describing form with line.
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Water soluble graphite on prepared paper, the proportions are wrong but
there are some nice effects |
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| Detail of drawing above |
As discussed last session I tried working with 3 ballpoint pens taped together. It was quite hard as it is difficult to keep all 3 pens on the page at one time but it is quite a fun way of drawing, although the results have a tendency to make me feel slightly sea-sick! I think this has potential though and I will have a practice at making it work.
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| Drawing with three pens at once |
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