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

[Jeanette Assies]

Day 50: charcoal on grained paper. Experimenting with edges…..

[Jeanette Assies]

Day 51. Charcoal on grained paper. Spent a little more time on the details. Did pay off

[Ronjo Solis]

HI Jeanette, how usually big are these studies? more than 9×12 inches perhaps? (just thinking that the smaller the study gets the harder it is to actually do a study (well for my case.. lol)

[Jeanette Assies]

Hi Ronjo, my studies are not much larger then 6 by 8 inches. Except for the pastel ones, these were 9 by 12 inches.

[Jeanette Assies]

Day 52: conte a paris on grained paper. Back to conte again. I finally get the drift with conte. It is all about applying softly to keep the darks light…..so to say…..Still it is more of a drawing tool then massing in tool.

[Jeanette Assies]

Day 53: charcoal on grained paper.

[Ronjo Solis]

Hi Jeannette, many thanks. appreciate it 🙂

 

[Jeanette Assies]

Day 54: conte a paris on grained paper. Tried to keep the massing in very lightly to prevent the shadow shapes from getting too heavy.

[Jeanette Assies]

Day 55: charcoal on grained paper. 2 posts today as I have been offline for the weekend, not able to upload anything to this challenge. But I did make the daily drawing anyway. Here it is.

[Jeanette Assies]

Day 56: charcoal on grained paper. Back to the old approach again: started with massing in the shadow shapes.

[Jessica]

Great figure studies! I love how just the tonal differences give the illusion of form.  Awesome!

[Jeanette Assies]

Day 57: charcoal on grained paper. New experiment. Started with gestural drawing but very lightly and only made committed marks. Futhermore tried to apply darker shadow shapes and look for composition. Still struggling with the latter.

[Jeanette Assies]

Day 58: conte a paris on newspaper. So every day I start with an half hour short poses exercise in the Daily Life Drawing series of NMA and it is getting easier and easier to draw committed lines at the start. So I decided to see what this progress in skill would look like if I used conte a paris on newspaper. Not too unhappy. I think I will give this more tries in the future posts. Undecisive me.

[Jeanette Assies]

Day 59: charcoal on regular paper. Experimenting with composition.

[Jeanette Assies]

Day 60: charcoal on grained paper. Small study.

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