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Hello again. We've returned from half term with a extension of the previous brief, so no new themes or goals to tell you about. However, not to just waste a post with just bland text I'll be sharing some interesting drawing techniques and mark making used in observational drawing. 

This first drawing was from holding the far end of an 8B pencil from an arms length. Whilst I still had a lot of control, it became very chaotic and the marks were very scratchy  encouraging me to make multiple marks overlapping so to get detail though multiple marks of the same observed detail.

8B pencil on the end of a stick. Even less control here so there was no point in trying to document every observed detail, i tried to capture the shape of the skull and significant details. I need more practice with this one technique.

Charcoal held between index and middle finger (like one would hold a cigrette? I can't describe it any clearer). Much like the first drawing I was loosing a lot of control but not so much that i found it difficult to capture observations. I would like to explore the other two techniques previously stated in charcoal and see the effects.

Charcoal in left hand. This was very interesting, having never seriously attempted drawing with my wrong hand before I was surprised at how much control and how well it turned out. I obviously wasn't physically able to capture the precision I would (try to) with my right I found myself making 'striking' marks from just making quick concise marks or quick controlled 'scribbles'. These two types of marks ended up creating very bold lines and helped convey depth and curvature, for example the texture of the marks behind the jaw show that the facing surface is not flat but curves slightly towards my view as well as in then out along the back of the bone.

Back to work again, so hopefully less sporadic posts. I have more experiments with materials to be uploaded in the next post.