I’m busy clearing out my studio at the moment to move to a new, bigger studio across the road and I’m using the opportunity to sort through and catalogue my work and also to be ruthless and bin stuff that doesn’t come up to scratch. I found this study and it’s more of the left handed drawings I spoke about recently. It’s a useful exercise to draw with your ‘other’ hand because it engages parts of the brain you don’t normally associate with drawing. These three heads were 5 minute poses drawn onto an A1 sheet of sugar paper with soft chalky pastels. In some ways I find it easier to draw with the other hand because I seem to be more analytical and the measurements and likenesses are easier to do. But the line is definitely more wobbly and harder to control, although sometimes it works very well like that. This is another elder model who has a brilliantly craggy and expressive face – great to draw.
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now this is very impressive.
Thank you – great technique 🙂
It’s great to try out this technique. Don’t worry, I’ve photographed and stored digital copies of the work I’ve thrown away, but I have to be strict or I’d have thousands of drawings hanging around. You should see my attic lol
I’m just starting out so my collection is not as large as yours I am sure LOL!! I will be reading more of your blog to see if there are other techniques you suggest trying.
oo do keep on. drawing is so much a matter of practice. i can also recommend the ‘continuous line’ technique as well.
What is “the ‘continuous line’ technique”? I never heard of it, do you have a post on this technique? I will look into it for sure thanks for the tip!! 🙂
I’ll blog about that very thing this evening lol. I was wondering what to blog about. In a nutshell it’s when you draw without taking your pen / pencil off the paper and you look at the drawing as little as possible. i’ll go look for an image now 🙂
You Rock!!!
But it sounds difficult. 🙂
no – it just takes a bit of practice – I just blogged about it – now off to watch some TV 🙂
I can’t wait to try drawing with my left hand!!! Congrats on the new studio, I hope to be building my studio next summer…can’t wait to have the work space.
I very much enjoy reading your blog, you inspire me!!
Cheers
Anna-Lisa
It’s fantastic having a studio – it’s transformed my life! You’ll love it I’m sure 🙂
Way cool. Now I got to try that….Hey don’t throw out your trash (lesser pieces). I find it fascinating for review occasionally.. Kinda like a refresher course on how ya got to where you are with your work now. It’s All good.