Wednesday 14 September 2011

Paint and Draw - lesson 1

A lack of drawing experience led me to enrol on a 10 week beginners course led by Will Stevens, details of his courses are here on the Paint and Draw website.

Lesson 1 was about using a grid to draw an image and using shading. Here's what I produced - I'm really pleased with myself and look forward to improving and learning new techniques.


















































We also looked at how artists use other techniques to help get down the basics of a drawing down on paper - projections, camera obscura and photographs. Briefly also looked at examples of photorealism.


Watch this space...





5 comments:

  1. Looks like you have shading cracked already :)

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  2. Looks good for a first time,sure you haven't done it before!!

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  3. ...a good technique and top tips about shading. I'll have another go at the weekend, just to see if it was beginners luck!

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  4. That is just amazing as Liz says, are you sure you haven't done this before Alli.

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  5. ...no, I haven't! I'm looking forward to next week - a new technique every week & a quick intro to a range of materials. My aim is to draw with my machine, so I'm also doing a course to improve my free machine embroidery as well. Onwards...!

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