Month: June 2021

Really struggling for time so just a doodle today.

The perspective is wrong on this one. I’ll have another go next week because the bridge is next to the horse riding place. I’ll have another half an hour to kill.

I tried to use the contrasts, and have some blank areas and some with close texture. I was running out of time so near the bottom I went into loose squibbles. This is worth experimenting with because it’s time-consuming drawing every leaf, even if I only do it in a few areas.

Doodles experimenting with ways to contrast thin lines with thick lines or shading with the edge of the pencil.

I started doodling ways that you could include contrast of line frequency.

I had this idea od drawing where there is a contrast of packed lines and few lines. The bristles are the packed lines. I notice after uploading it that I haven’t got the circles right again. It’s funny how I don’t notice when I’m drawing it. The metal ferrule doesn’t look tubular.

After the drawings of the bell a few days ago I decided I needed to be clearer how to draw circles at different angles. The trick is probably to understand the main axes of the circle: if there was a square around the circle, where would the circle touch the edge of the square? In other words, where are the maximum horizontal and vertical extension points? You can mark off these before drawing the circle.

Another one from the allotments. Maybe it lacks contrast, or has too much detail. I added a bit of shading to the weeds in the wheelbarrow but I think that made it worse. Fewer lines might have worked better, with no shading or bold shading so contrasts are clear.