Observational Drawing II

I started working on my observational drawing last night.  I’m trying to make it look like a sketchbook, with a rough, unfinished quality. Even though it looks rough and unfinished, I’ve spent a fair amount of time on them.  The good news is that I’m well on course to reaching my target, and probably more.  So far, I’ve managed to get 8 A4 pages done, and can hopefully keep this pace going.

This is the first sketch I did, in pencil. I left the right side deliberately vague, as I wanted emphasis on the left side of the figure:

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The rest of the work shown was done today.

This next piece was done by pasting newspaper on top of the sketchpad, then using charcoal pencil and chalk on top of that:

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The next thing I did was take a piece of cardboard and etch into it, then paint over it with oil paint – essentially a collograph – then printed on top of the paper.  This is the actual collograph:

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And this is the first print:

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It didn’t turn out quite as well as I would have liked but that is probably due to the fact that I don’t possess a printing press, and had to use my own weight to press it.

Here is the second print, done on top of ink brushed on the paper:

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The next image I created is taken from the back of my statue, and it was done by covering the paper in quink then painting the shapes with bleach.  This turned out very poorly, but that’s ok, it’s only a sketchbook:

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The final piece was done using in collage then drawn on using oil pastels.  This is also the back of the statue, and the eyes from the front:

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Overall, I’m pretty pleased with how things have gone today. There are a few hits and misses, but the university want to see everything: warts and all. I’ll try to work for most of the day tomorrow, then I’m away home for a few days. Yay!