Sjaan’s 100 Day Challenge: Figure drawing in charcoal/pastel

[Reptilian_Overlord]

Honestly, these are all great, but some of them are beautiful.

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[Lucas a.k.a “Roams”]

beautiful pieces i love the atmospheric look of these 😀 keep it up!!

[Jeanette Assies]

Day 29: charcoal on smooth grained drawing paper. Another experiment: gestural drawing in graphite and massing in the shadow shapes with charcoal. Think I stick to charcoal next time. I can erase charcoal more easily. I do like the light construction lines however.

[Jeanette Assies]

Day 30: charcoal on grained paper. Today another experiment. I made a gestural drawing with charcoal without lifting my charcoal from the paper untill the gesture was complete. After that I massed in the shadow shapes. I left the drawing rough, rather unfinished, but I like it.

[Jeanette Assies]

Day 31: charcoal on grained paper. The last few drawings have been short figure poses from the Daily Life Drawing sessions  and this was a 10 minutes pose. I started again with a gestural drawing, trying not to lift my charcoal from the paper and then massing in the shadow parts. I realy enjoy that. I think I will stick to this approach.

[Jeanette Assies]

Day 32: Charcoal and white pastel on pastel paper. Another short pose, started with gestural drawing and then massing in shadow shapes. Kept this one to 10 minutes.

[Jeanette Assies]

Day 33: charcoal on grained paper. This is a 10 minutes pose. First gestural drawing then massing in. Maybe not the best drawing but I so loved the drama of this pose combined with my initial gestural drawing. I left that untouched and I like the roughness of it that emphasizes the drama of the figure in despair.

[Jeanette Assies]

Day 34: charcoal and white pastel on toned pastel paper. Same approach, 10 minutes pose. Will try and do a 30 minutes pose in the coming days.

[Jeanette Assies]

Day 35: Charcoal on grained paper. Another short pose, had to rush. Next time better.

[Jeanette Assies]

Day 36: charcoal and pastel on toned pastel paper. I just switched to Schmincke pastels and boy, do I love them! Best pastels ever! Will do some more experimenting with colours in the drawings to come.

[Tanya Sannuto]

ohh I love it. I love how you’ve put it together.

[AJ]

These are great! The blending in and out of the smokey shadows are so well done

[Jeanette Assies]

Day 37: Charcoal on grained paper. Some 5 minutes and 10 minutes poses…..

[Jeanette Assies]

Day 38: charcoal on grained paper. So today I ran into an artist named Lane Brown (@lane.draws on instagram) and I really loved is way of drawing. It is a bit like Steve Huston, so I decided to make an effort and draw more detail like Lane does in his drawing, with an focus on composition. This is a thumbnail sketch of 2 bij 4 inch and that I started by massing in only the shadow shapes. So no gestural drawing this time. And I so liked it at that first stage, that I decided to take it into a more finished state……and now I find myself in jeopardy…..not knowing what approach to choose….because I like them both…….sigh…..

[Jeanette Assies]

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