I keep telling myself that if I want to improve as an artist, I need to practice. Every piece won’t be a “keeper”. So I try to draw whenever I have time. Also, I intend to occasionally copy art that I like, not to sell but to improve my skills. So I won’t be working on composition or even color, but I will be working on technique. Today, a friend and I spent a while sketching – we limited our time to 10 minutes on each piece:
Pear pencil sketch (from my photo)
Bird pencil sketch (not my photo)
Perfume bottle pencil sketch
4 responses so far ↓
1 Jo Castillo // Mar 19, 2009 at 4:28 pm
I love your sketches. Nice hatching and lines. Especially the pear.
2 trish // Oct 1, 2009 at 4:23 am
Very good sketches. Shade and tone – good practice peices. Thank-you for taking time out to help us fellow artists you desirve a pat on the back.
Fellow artist,
Trish
(Do you have any extremely detailed sketches for practice?)
3 shannon krisher // Oct 30, 2009 at 6:23 pm
i like the bottle drawing but it needs a cast shadow the shadow that happens when light appears through the bottle and needs a little more vale changes but that is very nice i would hang it in an art museum if i worked in one
4 Regina // Nov 2, 2009 at 8:40 am
Trish – Thank you – if you do a search for drawing or pencil on this site, it will show all of the pencil sketches I’ve posted and maybe one of these would be of help.
Shannon – You are right about the cast shadow – these sketches were done with varying degrees of detail. I’m not familiar with the term “vale” in relation to art
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