My art teacher gave everyone in the class a lovely long accordion style sketchbook and told us to draw the same thing everyday until it is full. Such a simple idea and so useful. So i've been drawing my hand everyday, trying to use different materials. This process is great to promote a daily drawing habit and hopefully it will help me see an improvement too (i still have a lot of pages to fill, so that's a lot of hours of drawing practice). Also it has helped me realise my love of line is partly a fear of shading (!) so i need to get past that. When the book is full i'll post the last four hands. It will be interesting to see how different they are, if at all, from these first four attempts.
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What an inspired assignment! Your drawings look great.
I would love to see an example of the book your teacher gave you, sounds interesting. Your hands look great now and I believe that by the time you get your book filled they will look even better. Have fun filling up that book with your beautiful hand/s
But you are so good at both line and shading!
Great assignment.
Fantastic hands. Really like the green. Keep up the good work.
Hi Sarah,
Thanks for your comments on my blog. I confess I share your fear of shading, is still my greatest challenge to get those contrasts right. My watercolor teacher told us to look at our subjects through a red acetate to avoid the distraction of color and get a better look at the tonal scheme. It worked at class, but I never remember to bring a red acetate when I sketch outdoors!
What a great study this will be...a brilliant assignment! :)
Actually I think your love of line is probably more to do with the fact that you're really good at line! The way you use the weight of the line works so well, and they come out looking all precise like a book illustration. My line stuff might as well be shaded, they're so scribbly! I'd love to be able to do great line drawings like that.
Brilliant idea anyway - they're always there aren't they? :-D They're portable, moveable, easy to position and you don't have to recruit objects from around the house to get them to the right height.
I've gone off on a weird tangent now...
Great work!
Good hands! I can't do them... they are soo difficult, the slightest line in the wrong place... I would say hands are harder to draw than faces. I'm in agreement with Rachel, your lines really are good. Keep at it. (I'm sending you my sketches with instructions, insert hands here ...) Hope that doesn't come over as sounding weird!!
I think your sketches are very nice too. :) The key is doing it over and over again I think...that's what I do, I keep practicing because I simply love doing it.
Thank you again so much for your comments on my blog ^^ I really appreciate it. When I'm out of ideas on what to draw, I'd take up the EDM challenge too ;)
interesting assignment! You have done a great job!
That's a great assignment! I think we should all try that. What good practice you'll be getting. Your hand studies look wonderful. I especially like the last one.
Deborah
Thank you so much for your comment on my blog!
Deborah
Very good - nice variety and I would say it shows improvement. Thanks for sharing.
lovely sketeches
this would make an excellent photo assignment too! :)
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