Light and Dark Series- Charcoal Excercises

These drawings, except the one above, were done during an exercise in which we drew what we felt, whilst some music was being played. I drew the plane whilst some opera was being played- probably a piece from Wagner. I drew the giant, industrial robot whilst some metal music was played, which was definitely some Rammstien. The ballet dancer pose was drawn whilst some classical piano music was played. The more refined drawing of the giant robot was drawn after the excercise as I felt that concept has so much. It was surprising that I drew this because I have never drawn any giant robot/mecha art before of this standard. So I was quite pleased with the result.

Light and Dark Series- Easel Drawings

In the art group I have been attending for over a year now, we currently have a theme on light and dark. And as I need an excuse to keep uploading pictures onto this blog, I decided to share the first batch of them .
I was doing still life drawing and I ended up drawing this easel in the corner of the room. The piece on black paper was an attempt at depicting the light sources in the room, and how the light was reflected onto the wooden surface of the easel. I think it worked well.
The piece on the white paper was really just a study of the actual object, with little effort done on the toning or shadows on the piece- I was going to work on the shadows using the black paper.