Back from a 7 day holiday in Berlin and I am feeling refreshed. With that fresh return I had a great Life Drawing lesson this week. It actually started off badly as i began with a small brush and focused to heavily on sketching out the image. Jon called me out on in pretty quickly though and once I moved to a larger brush and actually started painting and not sketching it really came together. I am very happy with the likeness and the use of light and dark contrast. Not so happy with the actual brush work. Allot of it feels quite unrefined and but hay its practice so i cant expect to get everything right.
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That’s a good distinction between painting and sketching with the brush – I’ll keep it in mind myself!
Thanks, I’m glad it made sense. Ill try to take some progress images with the next one to show what i was trying to describe. How the box layout is done and how it evolves into curves rather than starting with curves strait off.