Joseph's shiny new sketchbook

[JosephCow]

Thought i'd do a little update of just a mix of stuff I've done over the past week or two.

I'm finishing up a pretty quick painting I'm just doing on my own in my room, not at school. I'm not really supposed to be painting, or doing stuff in color, but I wanted to see if I could apply some of the things I've been learning to paint instead of drawing. There's not really a huge change in the result from some of my similar paintings before, to be honest. But I think the biggest change is just that I'm really aware of and in control of the subtleties of edges and value. I see a lot more how it should be, and what the right standard is, whereas before I was kind of in the dark. I just threw things out there and hoped for the best. Now I can see how I could take this a lot further if I wanted to spend the time.

I was pretty happy with this little pencil portrait of one of my classmates. It's not perfect, but the fact that those shapes of tone bear resemblance to him is encouraging,. Maybe the mouth is a little low.

I'm not overly pleased with how my figure drawing is going. I have trouble with proportion, and maintaining a natural gesture when trying to refine it. This is probably one of my better ones from life, and I think it's a little awkward. I don't know. I'm very hard on myself, but it does matter to me. 

I'm almost done with my cast drawing, the drawing of the top of it looks a little wrong in the photo, but it might just be the photo. It's really more of an academic worksheet though, and I'm learning a lot from doing it so I'm glad about that.