Learning to Draw | State of Progress | Day #11
Welcome to another installment of my artist apprentice diary.
This time I go back to the still lifes. In the beautiful path of the discovery of the drawing that I am living, I found that what I like most is the chiaroscuro, play with the spots, lights, shadows and volumes.
So the teacher told me that it would be best to go back to the still lifes to work the chiaroscuro. So he proposed as an exercise the following scene:
As always, and even if it's the worst I get, I had to start drawing the outline of the objects. It is a task that costs me a lot, I spend my time erasing and redrawing over and over again :p
The teacher told me that since we are going to try to capture the lighting of the scene it was necessary that I also draw the contours of the shadows casted on the wall.
Once I had everything drawn, and although the central bottle was still wrong proportions, as the exercise was of chiaroscuro and not of drawing I went ahead.
The next step was to start synthesizing lights and shadows in two tones. An apparently simple exercise but at the moment of truth it is not so much.
Unconsciously my brain forced me to represent the details. That is a mistake since the exercise is about synthesizing and understanding the basis of what is happening. In spite of everything I tried to follow the instructions of my teacher.
Once I had raised the light and the basic volumes I began to draw the details. It was a very long process of putting coal and removing, putting and removing. I also started to get the highlights.
Since the paper no longer admitted coal and I still did not have the dark enough black ones, I gave it a coat of lacquer to fix what I had already drawn. From then on I was able to continue adding charcoal on top and get more shades of dark gray.
Once I had it all more or less represented the final touches were to get the strongest shine with an eraser.
I hope you liked this new job. I know it's a long way from being a good job, but at least I had a lot of fun doing it and I'm still learning in every line I draw.
Thank you for joining me on this wonderful path.
Here you can find the previous days:
Day #1 | Day #2 | Day #3 | Day #4 | Day #5 | Day #6 | Day #7 | Day #8 | Day #9 | Day #10
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Thank you!
Esta chulísimo!!!
Me encanto @trenz, un abrazo!
Muchas gracias. Estoy aprendiendo y la verdad es que me queda toda una vida por delante para empezar a dibujar decentemente, pero lo disfruto muchísimo.
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Oh, thank you so much!!
Hola @trenz . Se que es una falta de respeto escribirte aquí, en esta publicación, pero no veo otra manera. Mi nombre es José Coraspe y junto a mis compañeros tengo un grupo llamado Primera Fila. Este grupo dará un concierto de musica pop en Diciembre y tuve una idea, absurda desde algunos puntos de vista, en la cual le pido a algunas personas que hagan un clip de vídeo invitando a la gente para ese concierto, y como Steemit ha sido una gran ayuda para nosotros pensé en pedirle esa ayuda a las personas mas influyentes de esta plataforma, y para mi lo eres... Se que es absurdo pero nada pierdo con intentar, espero tu respuesta... Somos de Venezuela
Hola, qué tal? La verdad es que te equivocas conmigo en cuanto a lo de influyente, no lo soy en absoluto, te lo aseguro. Gracias por la invitación, pero desgraciadamente no me gusta la música pop. Mucha suerte con el concierto y con el grupo!
Un saludo.
No veas como va mejorando la cosa!! Te voy a pedir un cuadro o algo para cuando me mude colgarlo en el salón!
Jajaja gracias, pero está fatal, lo que pasa es que en pequeñito en la pantalla se ve más molón.
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