City Block - 3 point perspective edited

12:14 am Pacific

The spacing was really off for that third building from the right; there weren't that many sections. Additionally I added more buildings in the open space in the top left and center top/ right of the drawing. Originally there was a hot air balloon there but my instructor told me that, that open space is still the ground; there is no sky if you're looking down. I had completely forgotten about that until he reminded me so! 

Still life - both of them WIP 3 and more...

11:44 pm Pacific 

I'm changing up my posts' formats this time; instead of making separate posts for each WIP, I decided to put them together in the same post. It's not a large difference (or at least as much as I can recall) so one large post rather than 2 posts is fine. 

Still Life: Objects of Personal Interest WIP 3

Still Life - Objects selected by instructor WIP 3

For both I mainly darkened the darks (thus eliminating the grayness of the drawing) and sharpened the edges. I'm not too sure if I sharpened the edges enough; they still look fuzzy up close but that might be the paper's texture getting in the way...

City block - 3 point perspective

11:51 pm pacific 

I drove myself crazy with all the spacing but I think it was worth it. 

To the attic - 2 point vertical perspective

11:49 pm pacific 

I fixed the hair and table leg a a well as the boxes in the attic. I had to change the ceiling light however. 

Sewer - reflection perspective edited

11:45 pm pacific 

I had to fix the lamp and the right sewer grate. In addition I used references to create a more realistic underside of the pedestrian bridge. 

Still life - objects chosen by instructor ( WIP )

10:48 pm pacific 

The reason I titled this as objects chosen by instructor is because just that; there were 5 setups in the class and this was one of them. 

It's extremely fuzzy compared to what it should look like, this is mostly, if not all, baca use everything was all in vine charcoal and I only just started to go over  and sharpen things with my charcoal pencil, kneaded eraser and fingers. 

Still life - objects of personal interest ( WIP 2)

9:47 pm pacific 

I'm glad I took a picture of the WIP I had last night... well technically this morning, but I disgress; it turns out the back yoyo stick was too light even in light and the top cup of the yoyo was too light as well. In addition, I tried smoothing out the background even more though now I'm worried I have too much charcoal in my background again. When I was shading in my drapery #2, I had way too much charcoal in the background then too. I need to ask my instructor about a good in between amount. 

Still life WIP 2: 

The actual image : ( or my reference) 

Head and Hand study - Samuel l Jackson ( WIP 2)

9:44 pm pacific 

Lits of work on this today; I spent a good amount of time darkening everything. I'm a bit worried about the nose and mouth area; I'll have to ask my professor / instructor for advice. 

Objects of personal interest - still life WIP

1:52 am pacific 

Still life - objects of personal interest , which contain my Chinese yoyo , sketchbook , yoyo stick and sewin kit. 

I had so much charcoal on my fingers from blending, especially during the background and managed to get a bunch of charcoal on my jacket sleeves too... At least I haven't done my Thursday laundry yet so that works out. 

... I still need to buy a few groceries when I wake up tomorrow as well as work on my head and hand portrait study for another class. 

Head & hand study portrait - Samuel L Jackson

7:52 pm pacific

The weeks are winding down to the end of the semester and that means finals! 

For Figure Drawing, the final is a head & head study of an elderly person. At the moment, I just finished adding the first layer of charcoal pencil on top of the previous week or two of vine lines and compressed charcoal cross contour.