Category Archives: Assignment 4

  1)      Upper body, oil pastel on paper, 48 x 36 cm Reviewing my earlier studies, I found that the small soft paint pastel study of the arm and shoulder looked quite interesting, despite the restricted palette. I decided to do a follow-up study using oil pastels and see whether I could get closer to […]

I began preparations for this drawing today with a photo session with myself as a model. I had briefly considered to make photos of other people, for example of visitors to Central Park. But there was the weather risk and I did not want to wait for the week-end with beginning to work for the […]

Despite the problems I still had, I felt ready to tackle the assignment. My first step was to provide me with an image that I could use for the main proportions, because I had so many difficulties getting them right from the computer screen or with the printouts I had made so far. I prepared […]

I was very enthused after the first set of studies, but the next set went less well. I was struggling a lot with proportions and details and somehow nothing seemed to work. I was questioning everything and seemed to be running against that old wall. The studies aren’t particularly successful but I’ll include them anyway […]

I made a series of preparatory studies over a few days. 1) Compositional sketch of complete scene, black pen in A4 sketchbook (9 October) – The section of the original image works very well for me – Would leave out the second chair, but am not sure about it. Might convey more intensely the idea […]

The task for this assignment was to make two large drawings, one focusing on line, and the other focusing on tonality. Based on my experience with drawing myself and in view of a definite lack of persons whom I might ask to be my model, I thought I’d approach this task using photographs. Basically, I […]