This is a plein-air sketch from a few days ago.
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Cornwallis Beach
Tag: pencil
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Drawing exercises
I went for a couple of months recently without drawing or painting anything, mainly because I was distracted by work. But I’ve started sketching again, with a little help and inspiration from this book.
All of the below images are exercises or copies from the book. Click on them to see the full image.
Hatches and other marks 
Circles, spheres, and hatches 
Various shapes and marks 
Cubes and a sphere 
Glass, from different perspectives 
Sphere with shadow 
Cylinder and glass 
Kneeling figure 
My first ever skull, I think
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Pillow on the couch
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Difficult leaves
I find leaves like this really hard to draw—in particular, the veins and the subtle value shifts across the leaf. This was meant to look like the front of the leaf, but it looks more like the back.
Also capturing the form of the leaf. I’m never quite sure which way to make my marks to capture that, so my shading becomes quite chaotic. I probably need to study hatching/cross hatching. The soft pencil I used (6B) probably didn’t help either.
Any tips greatly appreciated!
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Lamp practice
I did this sketch in preparation for a painting I’m going to do. (I wanted to practise drawing the lamp.) This is my reference photo.
I used a Tombow Mono 6B to do the sketch. Beautiful pencil—both to use, and how it looks. Pretty reasonably priced for the quality too.
