A small sub-woofer, satellite speaker and orange glass lamp. All the preceding corner drawings have strong lines so going for something a bit different here – trying to avoid outlines where possible. Also couldn’t resist […]
Category: part 1
part 1: ex 7: corner #5
The washbasin in the bathroom, with shelf and towel rail reflected in the mirror. I had to really wrestle that basin into existence as evidenced in all the rework in the in-progress pics.
part 1: ex 7: corner #4
The hallway, as viewed from several steps up the stairs. You would think I would have remembered to use an actual vanishing point here but no – eyeballed it again. Does the floor work? They […]
part 1: ex 7: corner #3
The hob and extractor in the kitchen. This one was a bit of a failure and abandoned rather than finished. I used soluble pencils to try and replicate the texture of the splashback (I used […]
part 1: ex 7: corner #2
Under the stairs in the hallway. This looks a little staged but it isn’t – I do have that arrangement with the skull on the top of the shelves, The wine bottles are empty alas […]
part 1: ex 7: corner #1
The back of the house with the media stand, the electric fire and the bi-fold doors looking out onto decking. This started out almost like an isometric drawing – all parallel lines – but I […]
part 1: more practice
I’m trying to get in the habit of sketching an object from life at least once a day to build up some drawing fluency before I tackle the “corners”
part 1: ex 5&6: from memory and blind
from memory: hmmm… still stilted and tentative. My drawing chops have definitely atrophied over decades of lack of practice. Only one solution: draw, draw, draw and then…. draw some more. with paper under table so […]
part 1: ex 3&4: contours
EX 3: I found this surprisingly difficult at first. I am obviously extremely rusty at this. My hand felt tense and the line just didn’t flow. Things improved slightly with repetition but drawing the outside […]
part 1: ex 2: drama!
with charcoal with soft pencil, ink pencil, fountain pen
part 1: ex 1: fractures
Not really feeling the first bit of the exercise. Here is a selection of pages with a selection of marks. If I had to characterise any of them then .. maybe … one is “flames”, […]