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I really enjoyed the whole arm physicality of the big face drawing and am grateful for the generic notes on facial proportions as I found these incredibly helpful as a beginner to portraiture. I used charcoal on paper for these images. Big face is now nicely folded away as it is way too intimidating to…

Contour drawing all the way I say……Love a contour and although these exercises were warm up prior to week 1 exercises, I have continued to do them each week and find they loosen up my drawing and help me get my eye focussed on what I am depicting. Anything not able to run away was…

I explored one point and two point perspective with the above images. All works were completed with a variety of lead pencil. The cottage is one on my Grandies farm with sentimental value to me, so I feel like this helped with my commitment to creating an interesting representation as I would not normally be…

I really love working with seed pods, grasses, seeds, leaves and anything from the natural environment. The above works are all items from the bush at the back of my property. I explored creating their resemblance first with pencil, then charcoal, some were then explored using pastels. The banksia seed pod was drawn in ink…

These scenes are from the Bowen Beaches location in Central Queensland.  I spent time looking at the foreground, middle ground and back ground and noticing where shadows were more visible. I tried to capture my scene from first using a view finder then quickly sketched the image in charcoal before doing a more detailed drawing using…

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