Schedule 12

This week's exercise is mainly an extension to the drapery study last week, except now the drapery is wrapping around a figure. Was chatting to someone on this reddit thread and they mentioned photographing themselves posing for some of the exercises. That is such a fantastic idea. For the drapery-on-figure gesture studies, I set a webcam on video recording, then spend 2 minutes making about 50 poses. Then, I just pause between poses when I am drawing. You also get the added bonus that sometimes the transition between poses create fantastic gesture in the fabric.

I ran out of burnt sienna, so I did the modelled drawing in green. To my surprise, I actually quite liked it. Started doing daily composition from long-memory/imagination this week. It's hard to draw from imagination and I often sit there thinking for 10 min before doing anything. I need to just get on with it. For now, I'll do 1-2 composition from imagination and 3 from recalled memory. 

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.