Monday evenings at VAS resumes June 21
Hope to see all you Monday-Nighters next week! And make up classes will be on June 29 and July 5. Face masks will be mandatory. We will resume working on your canine portraits in pastel pencils.... unless you have finished your work over the lock-down. If you have completed something over the break, please bring it into class for discussion and critique. Those who have finished the pastel work have the opportunity now to do another canine drawing in your choice of medium, or return to your unfinished graphite canine and complete it.
KMD has worked on her drawing over the period and has created a work in her distinctive style. She has used pastel pencils as well as a few soft Rembrandt's. There is a bit of shadow on the work cast by her phone which makes it difficult for me to tell where her light source is, I am assuming from the top right. I know I am always banging on about eyes not to have pointy ends, but they really seem to work in KMD's drawing - the eyes have real life and personality. I would have avoided black outlines around the teeth myself and used a softer grey - but they are effective! The body and collar are flat and KMD should work to build up more shadow tones on the left side. Maybe include some more of the oranges and dark blues in those shadows.
This dog has a lot of character and is a fun drawing.
All Term 2 Thursday Classes at MMAG cancelled
Well it appears our Kingston Council has decided to err on the side of caution and have shut up the building until Term 3. 😥 Sad, but that is no reason not to keep up with your drawings!
Thursday nighters... come on! Do some work and send it to me!
Like the Thursday nooners have been doing:
Oh! This is nicely done SB! Really good proportions and attention to detail. Well formed and accurate nose. Eye well observed and drawn. Indy was a dark coated dog from memory and you have tried to indicate this and mostly succeeded. I know it is your first time drawing fur and I think you have done quite well, paying close attention to the direction and how the fur falls over the body. As you develop your technique you will begin to refine this and learn how to layer the strokes so the don't fill up the area too much - very sharp pencils and a smoother paper can help with this. How you have done the fur around the nose area is very, very good. As you progressed over the head area it seems to fill in a bit and you lose some detail - I can tell you had difficulty understanding the interior of the ear somewhat. But overall you have done very well and you should be really pleased and proud of this work SB.
'Cookie' by Em: WIP
Another fine work in progress by EM. Don't overwork it EM! It is pretty close to finished here. Drawing white hair on white paper is really tricky but your are working well with it. Your overall shapes and anatomy look good. The nose is well done and accurate. You could benefit from from soft shadow areas on one side of the face as I cannot really tell where the light source is coming from so Cookie's face is a bit flat. Try using a soft, blunted F pencil and add shading and tone over the linework. Then, freshen up the linework over the top of this area with a very sharp 2H and HB pencil. Work softly and slowly to build it up further - stop before you think you are done and consider the progress.
Keep going, it's looking great!
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