Pencil drawings and sketches
It happened so that I gave numerous drawing classes this season. People love pencil drawing and sketches, and they are excited to learn how to create such art or a value drawing for other art, like for a watercolor and acrylic painting. Therefore, I have many drawings now. I always ask my students to also use big size paper for their creations. We most often use 24 x 18 in or 61 x 46 cm paper.
Using reference image or setting up still life
I personally prefer real items in front of classroom for my pencil drawings and sketches. During summer and fall, it’s extremely easy to find something suitable. We used real items for still life, but perspective pencil drawings and sketches are simply composed and constructed from imagination. I haven’t got images yet of other drawings with personal items, shoes, jeans jackets and figures. We gradually increased complexity and went from still life and perspective drawing to pencil drawings and sketches of figures. That took about 30 private art classes. Large size paper makes a lot of sense and allows creating the best compositions and value transitions.
Tutorial won’t do that
Tutorials usually teach something one: style or technique of a particular artist, one subject or one feature of it, and that doesn’t always mean your tutorial will include explanation or clear understanding why to choose exactly this one style, feature or part of subject. Demonstrations are frequently done on small sheets of paper. I’ve mentioned this numerous times before: if you can draw, you can draw anything without any limitations. You won’t need photos, printouts, grids and similar things. If you can draw, you just observe, pay attention and allow pencil to do its job. Which I always do! I hope you love seeing these drawings and sketches! I have to post many at a time because there are way too many.
These are fantastic Inese!
Thank you very much Tania Marie!
I’ve been so busy with everything indoors and outdoors that I haven’t checked back other blogs.
I have to agree these drawings look good, especially when one can see how huge they are for drawings. They make quite a statement. As you know, picture is just like a mirror reflection, but I can still show what we’ve been working on lately.
Hopefully, I will manage to free up some time during the week. I feel bad when I cannot leave comments and check out other blogs. I can bet your summer is going well!
When your site asks ‘Like” it really is an understatement of epic proportions and in no way gives even the slightest bit of justice to your fantastic works!
Thanks very much!
Well, that’s a wonderful comment.
However, the actual art always looks better than images of it. I’d be so happy people were able to see more of my art in person. I’m working on it. Hopefully, that will come true some day.
Magnificent drawings Inese! Your talent always amazes me!
❤️carmen
Thanks very much!
They do look impressive since they are very large for drawings. I am a bit upset because iphone cannot distinct between grey values and shades of white, so it’s a bit different, I believe much better in reality. Balance. Balance and values reality matter.
All the best to you!