While it probably would have made sense to have started this blog when I actually started at the KOH studio, I didn't. My bad. So traveling back in time, here are some observational studies roughly in the order that they were made. Up until now I'd used charcoal but never realized that there were these things called charcoal pencils so I tended to use graphite instead. Mark however insists on charcoal so a large part this was learning how to use the materials. Learning to see the lights in shadow shapes was the big thing I took away from these.
Trying to choose a value for the half-sphere was especially annoying. Thank you Aaron for introducing me to, and Elana for hooking me up with a red viewfinder. It turns out that if you look at something through red glass (or plexiglass) it is much easier to distinguish between lights and shadows. Green glass for midtones. These were easily in the top 10 tricks of the trade of the year and I strongly recommend this to anyone feeling overwhelmed understanding value.
These have all been done with charcoal pencils (hard - medium - soft) and white chalk. I tend to whip out the chalk for toned paper.
So the thing about still lives is that they get boring really fast. Enter cast drawing. This is Brutus. My biggest issue with the casts is that many of them tend to look a little wonky to begin with so trying to draw them can be infuriating. Busts of head's especially because the human eye is incredibly gifted in 'knowing' when things aren't quite right.
At this point I became a little overconfident at tried to bit off a bit more than I was ready for and chose this skull. I'm happy with how it turned out but I'd like to take another crack at it down the line.
I've had this sitting on my windowsill for years and was really exited to draw it. I was less exited when it kept falling over. It never got finished
This was my final cast of the first quarter.
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