Week 14: Silke & KKat

 Silke

Silke has combined her Saturday drawing sessions with our prompts - Saturdays theme was 'Cats' and when joined with our 'Tail' prompt she has produced this drawing of a sinuous lioness stretching and flipping her tail at us. Silke has used her Cretacolour oil based pencils to draw this. These colours work nicely and her fur strokes flow well over the animals' muscles. I enjoy the fluid lines of the shape and the pure pleasure on the lioness' face as her tail nearly touches her brow. Anatomically speaking, the head, back and tail are quite good. The forelegs I feel are a bit too short and could have been elongated more for correct length and to accentuate the stretching pose. However, Silke has caught the expression and pose of this big cat well and created a drawing that tells its 'tail' well.

'Stretch' by Silke

KKat

Arachnaphobes beware! 

KKats submission this week is a White Tailed Spider. Many myths surround this lovely arachnid - they are not the human flesh eating monster of urban myth but will happily munch on the daddy-long-legs hidding the loungeroom corners! 

Staedler Graphites 2H, 2B, and 4B with a Faber Castell 6B on paper created this work. This was a new paper KKat purchased while in France, Clairefontaine Graf It 90g Sketch 41 lbs. I do not know this paper and KKat reports it as being a bit 'scratchy'. This has actually given a nicely hairy result to her pencil rendering.

A pleasing study, well observed in detail. However, she does float a bit, why not consider adding a cast shadow under the spider to ground her?

'White Tailed Spider ' by KKat

Please note submissions for week 14 are now closed.

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