Sketching Models: Week 1

For my first time sketching a live model, I think I did pretty decent. There was a lot I tried for the first time that ended up working out or helping me evolve my drawing skills.

Personally I think my drawings are near chicken scratch, just drawing lines and constantly erasing because things look wrong. But then I tried to "sketch" lines instead of drawing them, just making marks with my pencil in the general shape that I want to make, it actually looked really good!

For expensive pencils, they actually worked really great. I used an average one to sketch out figures, the thickest pencil to outline their shape, and the one in between to do shadow. Light and shadow in my drawings wasn't something I did because it looked out of place, but on my drawings it really helped bring it together with the proper pressure on the pencils.

I'm looking forward for next class so I can do some more drawings. I feel really confident about them, and hope it improves more as I draw.