2nd Entry for July 24, 2009

For the second half of the evening I worked on a 1.5 hour study, in the `structural drawing' mode I was practising in advance of a 3-day workshop at the TSA. This is done on a 24 x 36" sheet of Durotone `white newsprint' colour paper, with 2H and 2B pencils.
The set-up was meant to evoke a cottage country roadside stand, and much of that didn't resonate with my response to Z- , but as perspective rendering challenges, the objects around her were worth setting down. Z- insisted I include the plastic dinosaur. I was more than happy to honour that request, as I've never encountered a Dimetrodon I didn't like - and this one was very cute.
As with all these blog entries, if you click on any of these images, you can see a larger-scale version of them.

1st entry for June 28, 2009

This study marks a change in pace, In a month I am going to be having a 3-day workshop at TSA called "Structural Bodies". The workshop will get people to use principles of perspective and rendering to describe bodies as 3-d volumes in space. I am starting to put myself into training on this, so a number of studies in the next while will emphasize structural aspects of body form.
It's always there when drawing people, but the aim here is to make those volumes extra-evident.

I had 2 hours of drawing time with T- on the Sunday afternoon at TSA. Afterwards I stayed on an extra hour to add in furniture & room information.

The study was done on 24 x 36 cartridge paper, using H and 2B pencils. The marks are complex enough that I've included a detail here.