[Sara Elb]

Hi,

I’m Sara, I just started learnig how to draw the last summer. I’ve done the exercices of this course, but I’m suffering with the ellipses to the point that I started thinking may be I won’t never be able to draw it correctly. My problem is that I can’t draw from shoulder and when I try I always have wrong ellipses, or I can’t get the right degree, I find mylsef drawing above it many times to correct it until I lose my clean drawing.

Here is an example trying to draw a simple object from my kitchen, it is clear how the left ellipse is wrong. The problem is when I see it directly I think this is the right degree.

Do you have any tips for me? any exercice I can do to accurately draw an ellipse and catch at least an apporximate degree?

Thank you

 

 

[Sara Elb]

Hello,

I’ve been trying many times to color things after drawing and I never was successful. Thank you Joshua for this practise, it’s not easy, I needed a lot of time to do it, and it was not obvious to judge the right value. Plus I really suffered with the grain on the paper, it was a cheap paper but it was for drawing and sketching and it has a light grain that keeps white space when coloring it. The eraser I had was a cheap one, and I had to blow the dust many times until I got things from my mouth on the paper and it ruined some of the values I worked on (25% non black, and 50% graphite on the blended side).

there is clearly a big difference between blending and not blending, I come to appreciate both ways of coloring.

Here are my excercice, although it’s not that clean, graphite and charcoal was all over my hand, my desktop and the paper 🙁

 

[Sara Elb]

Hi, I’m Sara. I just started drawing last summer and I look forward to learning more from NMA. Here are some things I sketched with graphite pencil:

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