Brooke the Younger
Still working on one drawing that isn't posted. It's an extension on the interesting failure from last week. It's turned into an interesting failure of it's own, but I think it's still possible to save it. I've been looking to the four tonal compositions for guidance on how to save it. I need to decide if I'm going to use black, white and dark grey on a light grey background or black, white, and light grey on a dark grey background.
This week I also decided to pull out the kuretake brusables markers. I was trying to create shadows using the brush strokes of my pen brush, leaving the impression on the strokes. Instead of trying to create solid shapes of the shadows.
A couple of the quick 3 minuters from warmup. Some interesting things going on here. It was a fight balacing making confident strokes without being messy. Of the ones I didn't post I either didn't define the shadows well enough or got a little too messy layering brush strokes on top of each other. Love how the core shadow was defined on the back of the leg on the second pic.
I liked how this one turned out. The background was finished with sumi ink and the warm grey is a nice contrast to the cool grey on the body. I like how most of the brush strokes of the shadows are still well defined. Inside of the black shadows I initially was trying to use the same strokey-ness of the black, but it ended up looking messy. It was more effective to just fill the spaces in between the black strokes with the midtone.
My brush strokes on this one turned too scribbly. I tried to hide that a bit by filling in the midtones. The shadow on the stomach from the leg was filled in too much (too dark.) I tried to lighted it up with some white ink, but it doesn't quite fit in.
The last part of the session, returned to quick 5 minute poses. I decided to try a minimalist style and see if I could do anything interesting. Turned out ok, but will need to try more in the future to perfect.
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