March Life Drawing Roundup Post - part 1 (It comes early this time of year)

A post on time? what heresy is this? but regardless of the incredulous nature of it, the march round up is bang on time.

starting with the first week of march's posts;

As usual we start with warm up sketches, which lead into quick 1 minute sketches. I think i was having a slow start that day since my initial sketches are a little rough. definitely need to work on making sure i get warmed up before drawing in the day. (though at some point your work has to suffer for things to get better)


The one minute sketches came out really nicely, because i was trying to resist swapping sheets and losing time, i had to cram all of the sketches in one sheet, making a rather interesting combination of poses and sizes in sketches.


Getting into the meat of the poses, i have a piece done using charcoal, which suffered a bit in terms of creativity and my need to do the hair on the mode, while the other piece ended up more peculiar due to me using a unique two pronged pen which made some interesting marks (though it was a little temperamental to use)



Finally a somewhat nice charcoal piece, i think i got the nice angling of the pose and how she is resting her hand on her shoulder and how there is a bit of depth in the image, however i'd say that some of my tones are a little too dark and take away some of the impact of the image.



 Finally as a somewhat interesting piece (although this was done more mid way through the session) we experimented again with inverting the values and using and eraser as a marking tool. this came out somewhat alright and i managed to get some variance in my tones (something i didn't manage to do last time) but i believe i still lack experience with this.

I might have gotten more of these done by i kept breaking the charcoal when trying to mark the paper >.>


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