Yes, I am aware I have OCD (obsessive Cullen disorder)! Too funny....!
Continuing...for several years I participated in figure drawing classes, and even ran the class for a few years. What a fantastic way to sharpen your drawing skills- there's nothing like drawing from life. It helps train your eye for accurately rendering perspective and spatial relationships so necessary no matter what media an artist employs. I was blown away by the talent in our local group. Some drew every day, and it showed!!
Wanting to get back to sketching more often, I bought a really nice sketchbook and a great drawing set- a Cretacolor from Austria. It has charcoal pencils, sticks, natural charcoal, and what I used for this drawing- graphite sticks, 6B and 9B.
Wondering what to sketch one evening, I eyed my Twilight Movie Companion book. ( Couldn't resist!) I saw the photo and thought it would be a good test. I didn't use any measuring device- I wanted to just eyeball it. While the likeness isn't completely perfect, it's darn close. Rendering eyes is tricky, but I always remember what my drawing teacher, Dot Huntley, told me- that the eye is always in shadow, as it sits encased in the eye socket and is shaded and protected by the brow and lid. How helpful that advice has always been for me. I notice some artists tend to make the eyes look as if they are stuck ON the face, instead of resting inside the eye socket.
I love the all graphite pencils. I didn't want to use charcoal as I was sitting in my family room and didn't want to get covered in charcoal. I love the depth of value charcoal gives, but I cannot use it without getting it all over me!
I know I want, and I need, to draw more often. Maybe, just maybe, I'll have to buy the "New Moon" movie companion book when it comes out........ !
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