January Life Drawing (4 of 4) - 29th January - updating posts at 5 in the morning is never a smart idea

Okay so this one was really a meh week, i slept so poorly that i can actually see for once how this screws my drawing up, speaking of late im also posting this at 5 am so i'm going to feel really dumb later on.

The thing is that they aren't bad per say (thats really debatable) just uninspired, the initial sketches were fine and i made sure to get more than just the face and torso like i always focus on so that was a plus, but when it came to experimenting with mediums (compressed charcoal, pen, graphite i think) it just didn't end up being that amazing, cause i wasn't using the medium to it's fullest.

The compressed charcoal had potential in the higher degree of depths of tons, but i had trouble being heavy handed during the sketch so its hard to distinguish any tones, the best one to come out of this was the pen one and that's because i made use of scumbling to make it slightly more interesting.

New goal - more sleep, except not the current week because i've just ruined that by posting this, i'll likely do more lifedrawing dumps on the end or start of the following month just because it's easier to do it in one big go (and i need to harass my roommate to take photos since i don't have a good camera)









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