Week Four: Texture, Space, Form

All of you charged fearlessly into the challenge of drawing from real life. Last Friday's session focused on drawing the textures of rocks and branches. It was a great start! Everyone continues to show steady improvement in drawing outlines and contour lines. We'll be exploring texture in future drawings. And we'll be learning more about space and form, too. Your texture drawings are shown below.

Sketchy's Dino Challenge
Everyone got a great start in drawing the form of the dinosaur. In drawing the outer edges of the dinosaur's form, you put the knowledge of positive/negative space to work (just like the egret lesson). The angle of the head and proportions were difficult for some of you. I'll discuss the angle of the head and jaw on Friday. To view your drawings of the dinosaur click here.


This Week's Drawing Challenge: Let's Get Abstract!
Use lines, shapes, patterns and textures to create a drawing from your imagination. Here's the link for getting started: Let's Get Abstract

In future lessons we'll be venturing forth, intrepid SLV Sketchers, into the world of drawing realistically. Practice drawing whenever you can. Remember, you can click on your blog drawings to see a larger view. See you on Friday. --Rob

p.s. Hilda: Ricky can look at trees and rocks, where he's visiting, for his drawing on texture.