Aris

Your skills as an artist are really starting to shine in these study sketches, Aris!!! You've devoted a lot of time in developing your line work and it can be seen in your confident sketching style. The natural-looking curved contours of the squash are very accurately drawn. Very cool how you sketched right on top of your mistakes until you found accurate form; then finished with bold, expressive pencil strokes. Excellent you you showed the roundness of the squash while also showing the flatness of the area where the stem connects. You did a great job in depicting realistic form and textures of the shell. And your cast shadows underneath the objects are well drawn, too! Consider getting a sketchbook and practicing sketching quickly from real life. Keep it going, girl!

Lizette

This is simply superb sketching, Lizette!!! You REALLY got into the zone while drawing the shell! It was so cool to watch you quickly sketch loose, expressive lines to capture the pointed and curved contours of its form--very natural looking! Great job in using contour lines to show texture. The cast shadow underneath it looks realistic! Your study sketches of the squash are a great start in developing your artistic sketching style! Excellent how you drew on top of your mistakes as you found accurate contours showing the roundness of the squash. Keep practicing sketching from real life. And it great to see you jump right into experimenting with layering colored pencils in the sketch of the apple. Nice work. :-)

Oliver

You weren't able to stay for the whole class, but you got an excellent start in your study sketches of the pineapple!!! The guidelines for the leaves look very natural and you got a nice start in studying the pattern on the surface of the pineapple. Hope you continue to explore drawing from real life as well as the cool work that you do from your imagination. Draw on, Oliver!!

Weeks 6, 7, 8: Abstract Drawing Cross-Hatching

As the Salinas Sketchers come down the home stretch, during the last weeks of drawing class, everyone will be focused on learning some new skills and choosing work for the Student Show.

Because of student testing we had a really large group last week. Many were new faces so we had beginning lessons mixed with more advanced ones such as the cross-hatching drawing technique.

Student Drawing Show 2010 Deadline Extended! Because of testing, the deadline to submit your drawings is the week of May 10-14. Enter your work in our Online Student Show, opening May 18, 2010. Your drawings will be featured with students from other schools in the Drawing League Gallery. Choose 2 of your favorites, either from your lesson drawings or work you've created during your own time at school. One drawing is to be from observation (drawing things you're looking at) and the second drawing is to be from your imagination. For Details: Click here

See you next week. --Rob

Aris

Superb use of cross-hatching!!! The confidence in your line work is really beginning to show, Aris! Great job of drawing accurate proportions of the man's face. Your abstract drawing is amazing! You did a wonderful job of using the style of the famous abstract artist Wassily Kandinsky. Way cool cartoon drawing of Pluto! Got drawings for the Student Show?



Student Drawing Show 2010 Deadline Extended! Because of testing, the deadline to submit your drawings is the week of May 10-14. Enter your work in our Online Student Show, opening May 18, 2010. Your drawings will be featured with students from other schools in the Drawing League Gallery. Choose 2 of your favorites, either from your lesson drawings or work you've created during your own time at school. One drawing is to be from observation (drawing things you're looking at) and the second drawing is to be from your imagination. For Details: Click here

Bryan

You really connected with your inner abstract artist in these sketches, Bryan!!! Fantastic use of horizontal and vertical lines, similar to the artist Piet Mondrian. And your angled lines and oval shapes are a wonderful take on the artist Kandinsky. I can see the influence of Picasso in your cubist drawing. Nice compositions, man!



Student Drawing Show 2010 Deadline Extended! Because of testing, the deadline to submit your drawings is the week of May 10-14. Enter your work in our Online Student Show, opening May 18, 2010. Your drawings will be featured with students from other schools in the Drawing League Gallery. Choose 2 of your favorites, either from your lesson drawings or work you've created during your own time at school. One drawing is to be from observation (drawing things you're looking at) and the second drawing is to be from your imagination. For Details: Click here

Lizette

EXCELLENT cross-hatching technique on the man's face, Lizette!!! Nice job on capturing the contour edges of his face and laying done some really clean line work for shading. And your abstract composition, inspired by Kandinsky is VERY well drawn. Be fun to see what you're submitting for the Student Show. :-)

Student Drawing Show 2010 Deadline Extended! Because of testing, the deadline to submit your drawings is the week of May 10-14. Enter your work in our Online Student Show, opening May 18, 2010. Your drawings will be featured with students from other schools in the Drawing League Gallery. Choose 2 of your favorites, either from your lesson drawings or work you've created during your own time at school. One drawing is to be from observation (drawing things you're looking at) and the second drawing is to be from your imagination. For Details: Click here