My art stared out in the corners of maths jotters when I sat in the back of the classroom and doodled. As time whent on insted of progresing in maths my drawings progresed. As the room was always fool of people I had an endless supply of subjects to study. With many of my drawings most where pen scetches in which mostly just looked at the features like the eyes but not where they actually are.
At home I was able to use acrilic paints to add colour. This painting has very little tone overall in the face so it lookes very flat. The fact that seemed to have stuck in my head and made me do this over and over is, the peach toned colour we all think is what skin is but in reality your skin is made up of many layers of semmi transpatant cells and much darker blue, brown and green tinted shadows.
Over the years my stly has tended to be fairly light when drawing and every one always says that they can tell if it is my drawing but, the problem is that they never know who it is that I have drawn. All the things that I have not been consintrating in the corners of joters at school like the shape and structure of the face and the dark tones mean that it dosent look like anyone specific. There are many rules that artists use like the head is usually the width of 5 eyes, with the width of one eye over the bridge of the nose, but to creat something that looks like the person you are drawing you have to look past all the formulas you know to the actual face and see how it is different. This is something I will forevery be working on and I am nowhere near to perfecting.
Chalk is a material I always hated in school art classes. It Is messy and smeers and never seems to work the way you want it to but, now I see the benefits. You can create contracting tones easily, it gets round the problem I have of being to worked about rouining the line drawing to put tone in well and it is always nice to fine another medium to experonment with.
This in not a very good time line of the drawings, there are about two billion more I could use but I think that these are just a few of the ones that show both good and quits a lot of bad points. Some times it takes a long time to figure out what is off with a drawing and even doing simple things like taking a photo of it and looking at that or leaving it for a day can help just change your view.
Eleanor X
