02-25-2020, 07:38 AM
Meant to post an update sooner once I'd progressed further along with the knight drawing but it's taking much longer than I thought.
Spent last week working on the drawing when not in work or at my life classes but in the end I scrapped that drawing as I was not happy with how the drawing was developing and ultimately it seemed easier and quikcer to simply start again. I was trying to achieve a really fine/smooth blending of values similar to how I was rendering the Bargue drawing when I was at the Edinburgh Atelier last year/ Greg Ruth's graphite drawings but it was taking far too long (spent about 10-15 hours and was still rendering the head), and felt that the rendering looked absolutely awful.
I felt like what I was doing was not indicative of my current skill level and that I could/should be doing a much better job than I currently was so I chose to try again.
Here's the lay-in on some bristol board, the drawing is 10x14 inches.
This is currently where I'm at with the illustration. I've been using Jeff Watt's graphite drawings as reference when rendering this one. I'm liking the progress of this one alot more than the first attempt, still not completely happy with the face but I think it's the best I can currently do with my skill level. Roughly I've spent around 9-10 hours so far on this one, definitely progressing quicker compared to the first one (I'll take a photo of the first attempt sometime this week to compare).
A close up of the facial details. Had to use my phone as my camera was strugling picking up the detail.
Gonna try and complete this one by the end of this week. I want to take my time and do the best I can but at the same time I feel like I've spent far too much time at it is on this.
Side Note
I was hoing to get peoples opinion on some ideas that I've been thinking about recently.
1. Planning on going back to Edinburgh and spend a week doing a painting course. Originally planned on going mid April but my anatomy course with Scott Eaton starts end of April. I can still go to Edinburgh before it starts but my probelm is that I feel like once I get back from the course I won't have time to do any painting until the anatomy course ends which would be end of June/beginning of July due to a busy schedule.
Not sure if I'm better off going to Edinburgh after the anatomy course ends so that I can spend some time afterwards putting that practice to use which I wouldn't get if I went up mid April. I guess I'm concerned that I might forget parts of what I learnt if I went up mid-April.
2. Toying around with the idea of getting an ipad pro for art related tasks such as anatomy tracing/sketching illustration ideas/reading art books etc etc along with non art related tasks but can't decide if what I want to use it for warrants actually getting an ipad or not since it's a pretty expensive peice of kit. I was hoping I could get peoples opinions on the subject and whether or not it was a game changer for them?
Spent last week working on the drawing when not in work or at my life classes but in the end I scrapped that drawing as I was not happy with how the drawing was developing and ultimately it seemed easier and quikcer to simply start again. I was trying to achieve a really fine/smooth blending of values similar to how I was rendering the Bargue drawing when I was at the Edinburgh Atelier last year/ Greg Ruth's graphite drawings but it was taking far too long (spent about 10-15 hours and was still rendering the head), and felt that the rendering looked absolutely awful.
I felt like what I was doing was not indicative of my current skill level and that I could/should be doing a much better job than I currently was so I chose to try again.
Here's the lay-in on some bristol board, the drawing is 10x14 inches.
This is currently where I'm at with the illustration. I've been using Jeff Watt's graphite drawings as reference when rendering this one. I'm liking the progress of this one alot more than the first attempt, still not completely happy with the face but I think it's the best I can currently do with my skill level. Roughly I've spent around 9-10 hours so far on this one, definitely progressing quicker compared to the first one (I'll take a photo of the first attempt sometime this week to compare).
A close up of the facial details. Had to use my phone as my camera was strugling picking up the detail.
Gonna try and complete this one by the end of this week. I want to take my time and do the best I can but at the same time I feel like I've spent far too much time at it is on this.
Side Note
I was hoing to get peoples opinion on some ideas that I've been thinking about recently.
1. Planning on going back to Edinburgh and spend a week doing a painting course. Originally planned on going mid April but my anatomy course with Scott Eaton starts end of April. I can still go to Edinburgh before it starts but my probelm is that I feel like once I get back from the course I won't have time to do any painting until the anatomy course ends which would be end of June/beginning of July due to a busy schedule.
Not sure if I'm better off going to Edinburgh after the anatomy course ends so that I can spend some time afterwards putting that practice to use which I wouldn't get if I went up mid April. I guess I'm concerned that I might forget parts of what I learnt if I went up mid-April.
2. Toying around with the idea of getting an ipad pro for art related tasks such as anatomy tracing/sketching illustration ideas/reading art books etc etc along with non art related tasks but can't decide if what I want to use it for warrants actually getting an ipad or not since it's a pretty expensive peice of kit. I was hoping I could get peoples opinions on the subject and whether or not it was a game changer for them?