Schedule 11

This week took me a lot longer than the other weeks. It's a bit of a combination of finding it difficult to sit down and just draw a piece of fabric for such a long period of time, and having the space for the setup. It's definitely a very good exercise and I am happy to say that by the end of it, I am a lot more comfortable with drawing fabric on people (week 12). At the very least, the folding makes some vague sense to me now. Strangely, it is around now that I can start seeing figures as blocks a little better. It could be the few Cambiaso drawings that I have been copying, but I wouldn't be surprised if the mindset involved in week 11 exercises also helped (constantly trying to figure out which plane I am looking at). I wasn't all that happy with either of my long drapery studies - when I overlay the insect trail, many things just looked off, and I cannot trace the folds by just looking at my drawing. I think I would need to come back to this exercise.

I started experimenting with shading in my daily compositions. Marker pens are easy to use, but I am burning through them like nothing. Perhaps I should look into using paint, but I am unsure how newsprint would take up the paint.

Schedule 10

I feel the 2 hour modelled drawing is quite good - it's nice being able to take colours away rather than having the whole thing blending into one giant lump. As per usual, I much prefer the gesture exercises. I had to force myself to plough my way through the modelled drawing. 

I started experimenting adding in shadows in the daily compositions - I feel it really helps ground the person into the scenery. 

Schedule 9

I am not sure if I understood this exercise correctly. From what I could gather, it's sort of like combining gesture with modelled drawing. It's pretty enjoyable. I still find it hard to not get influenced by the light and shadow when I'm doing the modelled drawing

Started exploring using some markers for shading the daily compositions. I quite enjoy the outcome but it really adds time to the schedule. At the moment I take about 15 min for each sketch, but shading would add another 5-10 min to it so I often forgo doing it.

Schedule 8

I struggled through each long modelling session, but the enlarged body part actually look so much more detailed and realistic than I would normally be able to draw. I guess that is the point of the exercise - to spend a lot longer looking and examining something.

I have also started putting all the horizontal and vertical daily compositions on separate pages.