TLC Exercises in drawing 18-23 May 2020

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TLC Exercise continued 18-23 May 2020

I have been working through the exercises in my TLC course - its good to pick up simple materials such as crayon, Indian ink and charcoal sticks  for drawing.  


Negative space drawing with charcoal from photograph



negative space drawing with charcoal from photograph


Non dominant hand drawing in crayon and Indian ink - I like the effect - it makes you use your eyes to see what you are doing.


this was a fun exercise - get an image and turn it upside down then try to draw it.   

there is a bit of distribution but the effect is quite pleasing in charcoal.

the image right side up shows the distortion effect of drawing on a flat surface and working upside down

exercise in drawing a  Portia - images from a Fantasy art book.  

Photos from artist's own collection and free images sourced from Google.

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