Showing posts with label charcoal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label charcoal. Show all posts

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Vegetables/3

Vegetables, vegetables... chapter 3


Monday, November 2, 2009

Vegetables/2

A couple more charcoal drawings:





Winter is coming back, with its beautiful "drawable" vegetables.

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Vegetables/1

If I have some tiny talent, I think it shows in my drawings "from memory", "from imagination". When I draw from life, my drawings are so plain that I usually hate them. However, I don't dislike these too much, so...


(Compressed) charcoal is a wonderful medium, although it's a mess and you end up with black spots everywhere on your body and in your room


the following is a bit lighter, but I think it's OK. Incidentally, when I scan graphite drawings I always increase the contrast a little (to make lines darker) - which is not needed with charcoal: