Drawing Class - Week Three

the assignment was to draw severely cropped versions of the seated models and to pay attention to shapes, not anatomy. And to draw fast.
The pencil is an 8 or 9B. Next we smeared clear Windsor Newton OilBar all over to smear around the graphite and give some slippery action to the color on top (like turpentine under oil paints). The oil pastels are those cheap Loew Cornell $7 for 60.


The parts that look scraped away (the red legs, for ex.) are where I got carried away and had to scrape it off with a razor blade before trying again.

he had the most amazing, best-shaped hair

the hand and wrist turned out okay. You'll have to click & blow up the picture to see what I mean. The rest of the picture, esp the head? DISASTER!