Devsye

A bit of practice in creating tones.

I have to be carful to get the vegetation in the right place. I did faintly outline the main clumps but I lost sight of them somehow.

The battery wasn’t a good choice since it is geometric. An organic form would have worked better.

I just wanted to try drawing an interior scene whilst standing up with a small sketchbook. I find standing with small sketchbooks uncomfortable. It’s hard to keep the sketchbook and my hand still, so straight lines suffer!

I didn’t look closely enough at the glasses on the table. They are at different angles in my drawing. Another thing: because the I am holding the book I don’t think to stand away from the picture and look for flaws. I didn’t notice lines that aren’t parallel, for example. I have to remember to hold the book away from me now and then, or even put it down and look from further away.

I’ve just drawn the outlines of the strokes but maybe that makes it more interesting. I just wanted to explore how you can create a different way of drawing objects. I like the way the strokes go from single line to double. It adds contrast and energy.

I tried to just stick with a dark tone, a mid-tone and white but it didn’t work. I had to add more tones, and darken the highlights. The tone difference between the highlights and shadows was very subtle. I didn’t understand that at first and the drawing had too much contrast. The highlights still aren’t subtle enough.

I’m doubting the approach of simplifying a picture into a three- or five-tone palette. What if an object has predominantly mid tones, like this one?

I deliberately chose a plain but curved subject to practise shading. The shading will be in the next drawing.

I love Paul Klee’s drawings. He has a different way of describing objects in line.

Drawn whilst my daughters were having a riding lesson. I was standing with a small sketchbook in the drizzle, so I was quite pleased with result.

I doodled a piture like a Paul Klee drawing and thought it could be called ‘Swimmers’. I want to keep drawing abstracts, too, and pictures that follow wherever the lines take me. It’s a little too symmetric, this one.