I wanted to overcome the problem of limited access to groups of people which I might draw by searching for photos on the web, then drawing from a photo. I had a spontaneous idea to search for “card players”, and was surprised that practically nothing else but paintings came up. The one I immediately recognized […]
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Today I was outside for a walk in the evening, it was already dark. I came by a tree that was entirely glowing in red light before the background of high-rise office buildings and the dark, cloudy sky. It looked wonderful and I took some pictures with the camera of my mobile phone. Red tree […]
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Developing Assignment 4, seated figure: Preparations
The task for this assignment was to make two large drawings, one focusing on line, and the other focusing on tonality. Based on my experience with drawing myself and in view of a definite lack of persons whom I might ask to be my model, I thought I’d approach this task using photographs. Basically, I […]
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Check and log: Self portrait
Which drawing materials produced the best results? Why? For me, the 4B pencil and the coloured pencils worked best. I think this was because of their capacity to create subtle tonal nuances which seems to be important when drawing faces. Does your self portrait look like you? Show it to a couple of frinds […]
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Research point: Artists’ self portraits
Investigate some artists’ self portrait, both well known artists and lesser known artists. Edward Hopper (American painter, 1882-1967) When thinking whom to select, Edward Hopper came to my mind whose self portraits I had seen in the recent Hopper Exhibition, showing him as a young man and again later in his fifties. The later portrait […]
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Self portrait
I feel that I’ve finally got where I wanted to be all the time! Let’s see whether I can make something out of this project. Exercise: Drawing your face The task – Draw several five-minute sketches of your face from different angles to face and head – Draw five more quick sketches focusing on the […]
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Check and log: The moving figure
How well did you manage to create the sense of a fleeting moment rather than a pose? Maybe this is something that worked relatively well in my drawings, as I tend to have a non-perfectionist style and am impatient and prefer less to more. So in a way all my drawings have something unfinished in […]
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Research point: People watching
I had tremendous difficulties with this task. Firstly, I wasn’t able to observe people as intensely as would be required for later drawing them. It would have amounted to staring at them for prolonged times, and I felt this was socially not acceptable. I did not want to make people feel uncomfortable by staring at […]
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The moving figure
This project frightened me because I vividly rememberd how badly I did with the animal drawing project. The moving figure is a real challenge since I have so many difficulties drawing still objects that I don’t know how I might ever succeed in drawing moving objects or people… Drawing moving people is also a problem […]
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Check and log: The clothed figure
Did you find it easy to approach the figure as a whole or were you distracted by details of the sitter’s dress? I think I was at times too focused on details of the folds. But most of the figures work quite well as a whole. Still I think my folds do not really work, […]
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