Candlestick and Candle, A Quick Sketch in Pencil

Sorry it is so pale but pencil is not something I have been able to photograph very well.

A pencil Drawing of Two Candle Holders. 

It was a project in a class where I was trying to show a few kids how to draw. It was drawn in a few minutes and then I did a lot of blending and rubbing with the stub.

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Pencil Sketch of Wilted Autimn Leaf

This picture started in a class I was teaching to help some kids learn to draw. It was my quick example.

Pencil Sketch of Wilted Leaf

I did this entirely in pencil using hb and a 4b. After I outlined it I began the details of the veins with light lines. I began to shade the leaf lightly. After getting the leaf the value I wanted I worked a little to shadow the background. I went back over the surface of the leaf and added details and spots. It is not the normal step but after detailing the leaf I gave it a rub over with a blending stub to soften the overall appearance. Last I used a kneaded erasure to lift out a few highlights.

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Portrait of Tree Blossom, Pencil Sketch

I drew this while standing under some bushy tree that had these beautiful five fingered blossoms. It was a lesson teaching some kids how to draw outdoors.

Pencil Sketch of Tree Blossom 

These blossoms do not last so drawing had to be done quickly; as they were being sketched the petals began drooping and wilting.

This was drawn in pencil and just a little charcoal in the deepest dark areas. I did a lot of rubbing on the background to stain the paper so the petals were bright. There was a lot of blending in this project but not so much that it lost the effect of being a drawing. There was a lot of play between light and dark so there was one against the other for contrast. The contrast between the smooth rounded petals and the rough jagged edged leaves was beautiful and I really wanted to capture it which took some effort and constant critique . It was fun playing with the different values of grey and going from the very light, almost white, to the very dark, almost black.

I could have worked on it for another two hours but I have to get on to other projects, and I really want to make my drawings look like a drawing.

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Quick Sketch While At The Cafe

There is never enough time to do art. So I try to do art wherever or whenever I can force it out of a situation. We were listening to some jazz at a Cafe in Wild Lake MD. and not far from me was a young man who apparently was not into jazz and had fallen asleep.  I pulled out my sketchbook from my coat pocket and a trusty HB pencil and did a quick sketch of him.

I wanted to keep the white of his shirt as a focus feature so after lightly coloring the background I rubbed it smooth with my finger.  His straight black hair was tousled and was fun to sketch. The sketchbook is about 3x5 inches big. I recommend all artist carry one; there are more times I wished I had one on hand to do a quick sketch than I care to remember.

Not too much can be said about practicing the quick sketch.

Quick Sketch In My Pocket Sketchbook Of Boy at Cafe.

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Drawing of Model With An Attitude

This is the wooden pose-able model of the human figure we use for sketching in class. I asked one of my students to give it a casual pose. I think it was more of a saucy attitude. This was a quick sketch and drawn in about 8 minutes. It helps loosen the students up a bit.

Pencil Sketch of Model With an Attitude. 

I drew this with an hb pencil and then finished it with a 4b just to deepen the shadows a bit.

You might thing drawing these models over and over is boring but so is practicing scales for a musician. You know you are getting better and so it is worth it.

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Practice Model Wood Man.

Wood Man Practice Drawing

Today I was teaching a class on drawing and we took our wood man model, set him on an upturned glass jar and drew him in a sitting pose.

This drawing took about twenty minutes. I used only an hb pencil.

I do a quick rough sketch by marking the location of the joints and drawing connecting structures between the joints. This makes an outline and then I go over it again and again making corrections and adding shading for volume. It was only part of the class if we had more time I would make a lot of little changes with the shadows and clean up the lines.

These are great ways to learn the basic human figure and cheaper than paying for a class. I recommend it.

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Pencil Sketch of a Pumpkin in Pencil

Pencil Sketch of a Pumpkin. By Adron

Pumpkins make great subjects to draw and are a wonderful thing to have students draw. Everybody can do it, the beginner thinks there is nothing to it and the experienced artist finds many shadows and highlights in the Pumpkins folding shape. The sides are smooth and the stem is wonderfully rough to give terrific contrast.

This is a sketch I did as an illustration for a class I was teaching on drawing. It was a quick 20 minute drawing and I was only working on it absently because I was telling kids what I was doing and trying to encourage them to do their own drawings.

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Autumn Leaves Drawing in Pencil and Charcoal

Autumn Leaves drawn in Pencil and Charcoal

This is one of those happy projects that does not go the way you expect it to, but turns out to be more fun than you hoped. It was a sketch I started when demonstrating how to draw unusual shapes so I chose leaves from the yard. As I drew the leaves for the kids I really felt enthralled with the shapes and for the next few days carried the page around to doodle on during my free moments. 

Pencil and Charcoal drawing of Leaves 

I began with a quick outline sketch in hb pencil, after which I went over it again in a 4b pencil to develop some of the values of the leaves. I returned to the hb to add detail. I used a blending stub to soften the edges of the shadows inside the leaves and spread out the shadows around the outside of the leaves. I redid the shadows some with the 4b pencil. The area around the leaves were redone with charcoal but I felt it was too dark and amateurish so used a kneaded erasure to lift out the dark charcoal but leaving enough to add value and texture. I used the dirtied tip of the blending stub to smudge dots in the leaves.

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