My project for course: Drawing from Real Life: Learn to Observe Reality

PRACTICE

Drawing from life versus imagination

I had never done this exercise and it was super interesting.

The grid method

Initially I did a drawing in charcoal but the paper did not agree with a bit of stumping and I made a mess, I painted over in acrylics for that reason.

The silhouette is not quite the same, it got a bit changed during painting. Also, the lighthouse tone is incorrect. It shouldn't be lighter than the sky. I'm just noticing now :D

Copying shapes

That one was a brain killer but it was super interesting (albeit a bit frustrating!). By the end of it I got a bit more systematic approach, somewhat square-based, and manipulating more fluently halves, thirds and fifths. I'll have to do it again at some point.

Copying clippings

Containers' still life

Notebook still

Graphical / pictoral

Reference picture by Sam Burriss: https://unsplash.com/photos/uaq0y8pb6W4?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditShareLink

Perspective practice (shrink, blur, atmospheric perspective)

Paper: Canson cold press fine grain - hence the texture

Light

Double exposure - container / contained

Experimentation

Series - sequential

Series