Two Weeks In One Gallery

Ann and Elly have been working hard over the past three weeks completing home tasks for practice in line and negative space work. 
The challenge of the negative space class was tough at first but they completed the 'There is no stool' task brilliantly. 
They have now had three lessons and two sets of 3D homework to date. Here is a gallery of work from their lessons and homework since the last blog.

It shows how far they have come in just 4 weeks!

Elly

 We had a chat in our last lesson week about remembering to limit shading to help with clarity of the image (See blogpost Just John) 
Elly was unhappy with the cabbage drawing because it looked messy and we also discussed the shading issues on the rose below. The drawings are well observed Elly just over-shaded. The great foot drawing above shows that you know how to limit the amount of shading and the hand drawing below done in class was excellent too so don't despair!

I really like how you have gone outside your frame with your negative drawing of the plant. It really adds something to the composition, but I get the feeling that you 'lost it' a bit with the shading of the negative areas. You don't need to shade the negative spaces if you find that hard to do tidily Elly, you can just go round the spaces with dark line or your pen liner to make it appear, like you did with the stool drawing. You really are making great progress. Well done with all this work Elly.

Ann

 

Again over- shading for the rose and the first pepper was an issue we talked about in the lesson and the second pepper line drawing showed a clearer structure. The first pepper became confusing because the tonal shading was too similar, but is still a nice image.

 
The rose Ann drew was red and she wanted to try to suggest that, so it was a good point.

The line drawing of the rose, Ann, was really nicely observed and again the foot drawing and your hand image were brilliant. 
 

I really liked the drawing of the sneaker. The shading was perfect and the whole image was well observed.



The negative space work done at home really did fit the bill. You commented in your book that the proportions of the corkscrew were still out. This will come with more practice and I am still convinced that  working in a more upright position will help sort that.

I particularly liked the graphic quality of your plant drawing Ann. You really get a feeling of movement across the spaces and the composition works nicely. A really pleasing set of images Ann.



Looking forward to next lesson already!