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Hi Mary and all. Baught me a lovely set of Derwent graphite pencils last week. Then came across this thread. Put two and two together and yesterday spent about four very happy hours doing the drawings below. This is sheet draped over edge of table. This is sheet wraped around a dear, kind and accomodating husband. top one is pillow slip, second one is draped towel. ...

Hi, I am new and I live far away from almost all of you. Please forget my english. I am a biochemistry and I have an absolute fascination for drawing human faces. I have a question and I have searched the answer on all the web but I didn`t suceed: What are the planes of the face? How do I draw them? The same to the human figure. Here is when I get so confussed: some teachers or ...

Hi everybody, I have been working on the alpaca with the Q-tip, please C&C, I know that this thread is a little dead but hopefully somebody would be able to check it, thanks Lidia

March 5 to 18 Hi everyone and welcome to the dust bin. I’m so thrilled that you that you’re about to discover what I refer to as the “Chocolate” of the painting mediums. I’ve used pastel for over 30 years and it’s still my favorite. There are as many methods of applying this medium as there are brands of pastel. I’m sure you’ve discovered as much if you haunt the ...

Hello everyone, Looks like a long time since anyone's done this class, but I want to get through them all and have loved reading all these books reports. I am now broke though...having had to buy a number of them...!! Anyway, here's my book report. Title :- Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters 100 Great Drawings Analyzed/Figure Drawing Fundamentals Defined Author :- ...

For those of you that are interested in having Basic 101 Classes 1-23 inpdf format they are in the link below.We can thank Ann (idcrisis55) for being so kind as to add them to herwebsite!!Thank You Ann!Basic 101 Classes 1 thru 23 ~ pdf's

Hi Alison! The only comment is that it is hard to distinguish much where the light source is. Perhaps do some more darks-by layering-a soft pencil is not the only way to get DARK -in fact the danger of smudging becomes worse the softer the lead. Also some lifting w/ putty if needed to show the side in the light. Perhaps though IRL the contrast is stronger-if so-ignore me. Nice work!...

Alison, wonderful work on the bike thing and the bottle! I've decided to move on from the spheres class, though I know there's still more I need to learn there....These are conical objects, an ice cream cone, a church steeple, a tree...I'm working on the bike thingy, but I can tell that needs more work!

Hi Stacey!Thanks - what you said helped, because I took a step back and looked longand hard at the values. Everything seemed a bit too close, so I gave up onmy idea of going no softer than 2b and attacked it with a 4b and 6b on thedarks. I was terrified of the folds initially, didn't have a clue what Iwas doing, but enjoyed it by the end!Here it is...Alison2

I couldn't progress much on my Class 13 assignment, so I did this class. I'm a bit apprehensive posting here 2 years after the last post but thought I'd try my luck . I'm sorry for the glare - in RL, the BG at left is as dark as the right. The weird thing is that the values on the left side of the jar is not that much different than RL (at least on my monitor). My questions: the...

Hi everybody, I have been working on the alpaca with the Q-tip, please C&C, I know that this thread is a little dead but hopefully somebody would be able to check it, thanks Lidia

Hi, I am new and I live far away from almost all of you. Please forget my english. I am a biochemistry and I have an absolute fascination for drawing human faces. I have a question and I have searched the answer on all the web but I didn`t suceed: What are the planes of the face? How do I draw them? The same to the human figure. Here is when I get so confussed: some teachers or ...

Hi Mary and all. Baught me a lovely set of Derwent graphite pencils last week. Then came across this thread. Put two and two together and yesterday spent about four very happy hours doing the drawings below. This is sheet draped over edge of table. This is sheet wraped around a dear, kind and accomodating husband. top one is pillow slip, second one is draped towel. ...