Extended Practice: Pen drawing

I used a thick brush pen to draw music on A3 paper. In the past, it hasn't been very successful but because I am working on a larger scale now, I think it's been working better than before.

I am going to draw over the same line with another line and build up layers and layers until it looks like a record. More posts to come...

Extended Practice: Inverted Charcoal drawings

So I have inverted my drawings from the charcoal drawings to see what they would look like black on white.

Extended Practice: Drawing with charcoal

I am continuing with developing my drawings. Currently, I’ve been confided and bound by my sketchbook, so I feel that I need to break out of that and work on a bigger scale. My new drawings are done on A3 sized paper using Charcoal.

I was listening to my favourite artist Warpaint while drawing lines to describe what it would look like in line form. I’ve established there’s two type of lines that I use:  “Zig zag” lines and “circular” lines. Zig Zag lines tend to represent impact whereas the latter produces a more harmonious effect.

The advantages of working with charcoal is that you can create different quality of line depending on how you hold the charcoal. You can use it like a pen or use its side for broader marks. Also, by varying the pressure I can create a contrast of faint or dark lines.

The disadvantages of using charcoal is that there is less control, therefore the lines are not as precise and accurate as it would be if you were using a pen. However, it is a quick way of making expressive line quickly.