In this session on the 23/2/15 I had to decide which material I wanted to use which I thought I needed to improve on. As I had missed the session on pastels I decided that my chosen material would pastels.
The materials I used were a 2B pencil to sketch my drawing, a putty rubber, pastels, charcoal and an A1 piece of manila paper.
The techniques I used were extended reach using my pencil for measurements, proportion and scale, shading and tonal study.
I began by sketching the lady in pencil ensuring that everything was to scale and in proportion. I then used a dark brown pastel to sketch in the shaded areas and a white pastel to sketch in the highlighted areas, I then blended in the two colours using my finger. Once blended i began adding blue pastel to the shaded areas and red, and orange to the highlighted areas. I then added pink pastel in areas to make the skin look more flesh like, once I had done this I gently blended it all in using a peach pastel to give the skin a more light peachy colour. Iwhen happy with the skin I began on the hair. For the hair I used red, blue, green, brown and white pastels to make a dark shade of brown. I struggled with the hair as I found it difficult to show the direction the hair was falling and where the highlighted and shaded areas were. After researching this problem I discovered that to get more realistic hair I would have been better using soft pastel pencils as they are thinner and you can make more detail with them. I also felt that these would have been better for the face too as the pastels were quite thick and were difficult to make some detailed touches on the face. After I had finished the main drawing I began on the dressing gown to show what the lady was sat on.
I think I have got the proportion accurate and that the skin colours look realistic and accurate, however I got the scale I little too big resulting in me unable to draw the feet and I feel that the face and hair need a little more detail. Overall I am pleased with my work.
Pencil sketch
Adding shading and highlights
Final drawing (unfinished)
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