Visual Arts class

Here are some of my first year Visual Arts class croquis. These croquis are very long, (about 1,5 to 3 hours) and the purpose was to capture shapes of the body on two-dimensional drawing and concentrate on light and shadows.

This is the first drawing made ​​with charcoal. As you can see, I have mostly concentrated to get the dimensions right and outlining the model. The shadings are really dim and soft as it is a little challenging for me to create rough lines, but I am working on that!

This drawing was made from torso made with charcoal. Here the purpose was to really concentrate on light and shadows by using rough lines.This was a real learning experience for me to forget light shading and really work that charcoal on the paper! Although my light drawing hand can be seen here also.

So this drawing is from a male model made with wax colours. It is surprising that male figure is harder to draw than a woman's, particularly in getting the posture right. So in this case I had some trouble with getting his left leg in right position. I think the shading here is relatively nice as the shape of human form conveys from the drawing.