Something to do with instruments

I ended up starting to like the more "doodly"  style, however I like to finish up sketches after I have a good idea of what I want everything to look like. 

I found out what is going on with my posts:  It appears that instead of posting them, when the internet connection is poor it ends up saving them as drafts rather than simply posting them. 

Today I ended up staying behind because I had managed to lock myself outside of my room.  I wandered around campus and nearby locations and settled on drawing cafe goers in the Crane.  Later I went around looking for people doing homework and participating in various activities.

Northmarket (again)

Alot of today's sketches were really more or less preliminary gestures, but I was able to get in a few more "complete" sketches. One issue I kept running into was the constant need to sharpen the pencil even when i held it at a tilt causing alot of the lines to come out less than crisp. If things keep up, soon I might only have pencil nubs remaining.

Black Pencil

Using the black pencil more and more and drawing with an almost brushlike movement makes it easy to completely darken a portion of an image with very little effort.   I also started attempting to draw similar poses to see the differences between now and then. 

Nov 10

I ended up doing quite a few gestural drawings before I started drawing more filled in figures, I found that quickly blocking in shadows with the side of the pencil made short work of the task.

Nov 8

Today I used primarily dark graphite and a black pastelstick
While looking around, less and less people are going outside after dinner because of the weather, however there is still a substantial number.  However, there are alot more people running from place to place to avoid staying outside longer than absolutely needed, or perhaps to get to the next class on time.

I went back and started doing more gestural  drawings with the pastel stick and actually liked where it was going, I'll likely start trying to build up from those now.

 

 

(of course we got those guys who seem to act as if the school food requires safety gear to properly handle)

 

Shades of brown

I was unfortunately not feeling well today, but I ended up doing a few sketches using a dark brown pencil. There wasn't much to draw so this might as well be a place holder for later.  I'm still feeling fatigued and unwell, hoping to feel better later today.

Hands

Oddly, hands seem to have become easier for me to draw.  I spent a relative short amount of time drawing each individual hand.  I tried using ink and tried using some pastels for the assignment, I ended up using the set drawn with soft graphite.