Peter's Sketchbook

[Peter]

Apologies for not posting for the last couple of days, I've been working on a piece from imagination based on the suggestion from Adzerak and finally got back to my life drawing class, just my luck that my first class back the model had to cancel last minute :( so we spent the session drawing each other in 15 minute poses. I tried Adzerak's advice of not lifting the pencil off the paper (not sure if you can tell or not). I was hoping they would light the model with an artificial light since it was an evening class but they didn't which was annoying, I'm going to look around and see if there are any other life drawing classes which use proper lighting.

For the piece I was doing from imagination, as I said last time my idea was to draw a skeleton king of some sort, went abit wild and thought about drawing it with armour on but quickly realized that I haven't had much practice drawing armour, let alone rendering it and thought I shouldn't go too crazy just attempt what I've had practice in since this is what it was all about anyway.

The pose and skull I drew from imagination, used some reference for how the cloak would sit on the body and some reference for how the skull would look lit from the angle I wanted. It turned out better than I thought actually, had a blast with it, not too happy with how I rendered the left side of the cloak, think I could of grouped the values better but oh well.

Any feedback would be much appreciated. :)