Line – Pencil and sketches

Final Pieces! :D

Hi again!

Here are my final pieces!

First piece: A pair of boots and helmet. These are the necessities for entering a construction workplace. Safety is key in Singapore. Work done with charcoal. I love how beautifully charcoal can be smoothed out on paper.

Second Piece: A foreign worker who hides his emotions behind his smiles. Done with HB, 2B, 4B and 6B pencils. Occasional help from my handy mechanical pencil. Pencil and cotton bud played a part in texturing his skin. Outlined his headgear with charcoal, hoping to achieve a boomz effect where the focus is on his expression.

3rd Piece: Blue Star Dormitory. Done with my all time favorite pen, uni-ball Signo DX 0.28. My Pentel Marker helps in defining some of the thicker lines. And a little charcoal bits for shading.

And I thought I should also upload the one that I had done before my final piece. I kind of add some details without looking at the bigger picture. Thus I felt some parts are overly dark (mainly done with my thicker china pen instead of uni-ball 0.28). Thus I decide to redo it with a much cleaner profile.

Week 10’s Emotions in a drawing

Hi again! For week 10, we were to draw our models who had look of distress in them. An opportunity to experiment with charcoal. I feel that charcoal adds a very bold touch to a drawing. And definitely not easy for someone like me who lacks confidence. I like to work with pencil because it has a softer touch. But at the same time, the effects of charcoal is really pretty!

So basically, we had two sessions of 30 minutes to sketch our model. The first session was to draw more of their poses, but because they carried a look of distraught on their face, the very first thing that came to my mind was the squiggle lines which represents how distraught is to me. So I used that as an outline of the female model (the shadow figure). I initially wanted to make it seem like the feelings have overcame her.

Then I proceeded on to draw the male. The reason for the squiggle lines that are only around his chest and head was because emotions are overwhelmed in him, and those squiggle lines represents the amount of heartache and psychologically affected he feels.

Adding them up, the female is no longer just the female overcame by her own feelings, but her, being the cause of the male’s distraught.

And because I was done with my first drawing, I made another one. This time trying something else. I feel that moon and darkness never fails to depict loneliness.

And we ended the class with 2 more drawings. The one on the right was the first we did. And the one on the left, we were told to make them look elegant. When I hear the word elegance, I would think “on point”. Thus, the pointy toes and hand.

See you again! 🙂

Portrait Drawing Week 9

Hi there! Week 9’s lesson was on face and expressions. As always, pretty interesting to learn about perspectives in class. Like we actually learnt that the proportions of our eyes nose mouth is 1/2, 1/4 and 1/8 of our face respectively?!

I’m always bad at shading and I really need to improve in my shading. Trying my best to observe light and shadow as best as I can! Hopefully I can improve with more practice!

After a virgin try at portrait drawing ( yup I got the front view previously) , we had to draw at different angles! And also to draw the poses of our two models.

Finally, we had to draw poses of them exerting weight on each other and try to make it look as realistic as possible. Can you tell the tension between the models in my drawing? 😛

And that’s all for week 9’s class! 🙂

Model Drawing Part 2

So before going in to model drawing part two, I should upload my previous work first. That we did for week 2. First we drew this jug, I haven’t been very good with shadings so this was a first attempt at figuring out where the lights are hitting and where should I be shading.

Then we had to shade a wine glass. It was way harder than the jug because this was see thru. And have to look harder to realize which part was dark with shadows or not. So here’s my attempt.

And this is what we did for week 6! Another model drawing but this time it is a female. And I have learnt after today that she was quite difficult to draw because of her (smooth?) and soft features that results it barely any details on her body unlike the male that we drew previously. He had the curves, the ribs, the chest, the muscle lines that helped a lot for shaping of his body.

Here’s my first attempt.

And the second attempt.

And the last one where we had to add in the shadows to her body. Comparing with what I did for week 2, I boldly feel that it was so so so much better? 😛 But I did learn a lesson of not shading my background too dark. Whoooooops.

Thought this inverted image look pretty cool so I shall have it attach in this post too. HAHA.

Week 1 Contour Drawing

Week 1 of class started of where we were to draw with reference to the music being played. It was basically a warm up to the beginning of an excited journey of ARTS!

Here’s the first three sketches I had drawn.

The reason for the final sketch reminds me of oriental music, thus the traditional guy in the middle and the blasting sound gave me the feels for the thick large streaks.

After coming back from a 15 minutes break and with a piece of leaf, we started on contour drawing! It was a pretty new experience as we were told to feel the edges of the leaf and draw the outlines.

And here’s the final piece of our contour drawing! The shoe is courtesy of our classmate! ^^