charcoal on 40 post-it notes
this was not fun... I drew each post-it seperately and put them all together later.
Sunday 31 January 2010
62/100 - 31.01.2010
charcoal on 40 post-it notes
this was not fun... I drew each post-it seperately and put them all together later.
Saturday 30 January 2010
Friday 29 January 2010
Thursday 28 January 2010
59/100 - 28.01.2010
Acryllic paints, this is a painting of one of the excellent lego models by fellow 100 dayer, Daniel.
http://digyourfins.wordpress.com/
Wednesday 27 January 2010
Tuesday 26 January 2010
Monday 25 January 2010
Sunday 24 January 2010
Saturday 23 January 2010
Friday 22 January 2010
53/100 - 22.01.2010
pastels
first attempts at using pastels, the photo looked nothing like how this turned out :)
Thursday 21 January 2010
Wednesday 20 January 2010
Tuesday 19 January 2010
Monday 18 January 2010
Sunday 17 January 2010
Saturday 16 January 2010
Friday 15 January 2010
46/100 - 15.01.2010
Charcoal and chalk on tinted paper.
Boring fact: First thing I've drawn on my new easle. I noticed that a lot of my drawings seem elongated, and I guess it was due to drawing on a level surface, which caused some weird perspective issues (I think I was adjusting for the top of the page being smaller visually) With an easle the paper can be angled so that it is completely facing the eye.
Thursday 14 January 2010
Wednesday 13 January 2010
44/100 - 13.01.2010
Statue of a firefighter. Charcoal and chalk on tinted paper.
Things I've learned so far about using charcoal:
You can cover a lot of paper in a short amount of time.
It's messy.
It's tricky not to smudge the parts that have already drawn.
The finished drawing needs to be sprayed with a fixitive or else the slightest touch could ruin it.
It's quite hard drawing with a burnt twig.
It scans well (a lot better than pencil or watercolour)
The blacks are really black.
It's fun.
Tuesday 12 January 2010
Monday 11 January 2010
42/100 - 11.01.2010
Watercolour. My watercolours are a mess, I need to figure out how to do them properly. Google will show me the path!
Sunday 10 January 2010
Saturday 9 January 2010
Friday 8 January 2010
Thursday 7 January 2010
Wednesday 6 January 2010
37/100 - 06.01.2010
Brush and designers gouache.
I had to catch up over the last couple of days and that was difficult. I can feel myself running out of ideas... but I can also see a little improvement in what I'm doing (I hope) which is rewarding. I've enjoyed trying out some new techniques, like brush & ink, and gouache paints (like this little lego man here). Also, I've found that, for me, black and white stuff is a lot easier - seeing colours properly is hard, I don't know how you real artists do it! Onwards!
Tuesday 5 January 2010
Monday 4 January 2010
35/100 - 04.01.2010
brush and ink
I've found that using brush and ink is fun, but terrifying. I sketch out the drawing lightly in pencil, taking care to get everything looking as good as I can, then I pick up the brush, dip it in the ink, and one wrong move will ruin the whole thing! No hiding any mistakes here...
Sunday 3 January 2010
Saturday 2 January 2010
33/100 - 02.01.2010
Bottle of india ink - Brush & Ink on cartridge paper.
I sketched out the picture lightly in pencil, drawing most of the light and dark areas as outlines. The lighter shades are just done with diluted india ink, which leaves some banding. At first I didn't really like the banding but now I think it adds something to the picture.
Friday 1 January 2010
32/100 - 01.01.2010
30 second figure drawingsmore drawing exercise - figure drawing has always been something I've struggled with so I'm going to keep doing these. I have 30 seconds to draw a randomly selected posed figure, I think I'm getting a bit better at picking out the overall shapes that are important, compared to the ones I did near the start of the 100 days project. I usually do 2-3 pages of these and only post the best ones, so you'd best believe the others are worse than these :)
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