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| 6/9/15 India ink, graphite, Canson 98 lb. mixed-media paper |
The ink-drawing class
I’m taking this quarter is coming to a close. Yesterday and at next week’s
final class, we are using our choice of all the techniques we’ve learned in
hatching and shading using pen and ink, ink washes and sumi-e to render a
model. To make it more “interesting,” the model was draped in fabric,
toga-style.
Rendering all that draped fabric was definitely challenging,
but even as I grumbled through today’s exercise, I realized the draping was a
good move. All the hatching techniques I learned from Van Gogh, Raphael and
other masters seemed to have escaped me when presented with a live model. Bare
skin would have been even more challenging, at least in pen and ink, which was
my choice today. I decided I couldn’t bear to shade the delicate contours of
Danielle’s face with hatching, so I did that part with graphite.
Next week I think I’ll give myself a break and use ink
washes instead!
Your hatching shows the flow of the fabric nicely! You apparently learned a lot in that class.
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