When walking the other day, I chanced upon a rather rotten and beautiful piece of wood, the like of which I have not seen before.
A brief (and I hasten to add) not very good sketch, done in two different tones of felt tip pen, and watercolour.
(I did this as a warm-up exercise, more then anything else.)
I did this with graphite stick and pencil.
I like photographing through all the stages of a drawing (I sometimes forget to do it regularly) but it give a good insight into how the drawing was done.
I think (though I got quite a good texture in some areas of the drawing) the overall drawing isn't very good.
I think when starting to draw it, I failed to create a solid sense of structure, I was too busy concentrating on the over all outline shape and the negative and the inner shapes.
(a second try.)
Not liking the outcome of the previous drawing, I did another smaller, speeder drawing in my A4 sketchbook.
Although not working on texture as much as the first drawing, I feel this is a superior piece of work, in that the viewer gets a better idea of the structure, planes, levels, what is coming towards and what is going away, the mass and solidarity and all that sort of thing.
(I feel anyway)
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