Shadow Sphere studies

I have been cycling through various skill sets for improvement.  I have been focusing on the monochromatic work with charcoal and graphite pencils.  These are the skills needed to improve all skills in drawing and painting.  These are pencil graphite studies of spheres with different overhead lighting and background darkness.

Woman Head Sketch

I worked on this sketch today after the weekend running of the errands.  Hopefully I will paint a little tomorrow.  This is done with Graphite.

Happy Friday

An odd experiment in perspective, I did this from an art book and I don't think it works or represents the concept.  It was easy but not real productive.  I might have missed something on this but I am done for tonight.  Tomorrow will be better.

Women's back sketch

Tonight's post, a simple pencil sketch from a photo.  I used a stump to blur the edges to make the muscles and definitions of the curves.

Male Torso Back

This is a graphite drawing of a Charles Barque lithographs from the 19th century.  These were used to train artists in form and shadows.  So I am tracking on skill developing in an old style.

Kneeling Man in charcoal

Tonight's practice is a kneeling man in charcoal and white chalk done on tan paper.  More tomorrow practice, practice, practice.

Downward Face sketch

Not all work is as successful as one would like.  This is an okay copy of a sketch but I was not completely happy with it.  It is necessary to make many attempts and trys at a task before one has a big breakthrough and something which is closer to what one wants.  Everything is progress even when it does not seem to be.