black pencil on 3.28.12

With this week, I was in the mood to create punchy black pencil sketches and I did just that. The prior week I was hatching, so this week I wanted to shade with the side of the pencil. Thats about it. Overall, it was a pretty good week. 


2 min gestures (I went a little crazy with the second page!):

5 min poses: 

15 minute pose (messed up the face): 

20 minute poses (they turned out really well, but some of the fine lines got lost in the scan): 

a few sketches from 11.2.11

I don't think I scanned too much from that week, but here some pretty decent ones. With that week, I tried to aim for contrast. The shaded backgrounds look a little grainy, but I don't think thats a bad thing. 

10 minute pose: 

20 minute poses: 

a few sketches from 11.16.11

Here are a few sketches from November. With some of the longer sketches, I wanted to punch up the drawings with darker backgrounds and harder shading. I felt that I got mixed results that week. 

2 min gestures: 

5 min gestures: 

20 min pose: 

40 min pose: 

sketches from 12/14/11

Here are some some good old fashioned black colored pencil sketches from 12/14/11: 

2 min gesture page: 

20 min lying pose: 

  


20 min sitting pose: 




20 minute portrait. Still need more practice!