When I first saw what was on the agenda for this week I immediately thought " There is no way in a million years that I can do that"
So, I took a deep breath and started.
I
had an outline to fill in and as the same as previous weeks some
instruction how to accomplish this massive task, at least massive in my
"student's" head, were included.
Recommendation
was not to spent more than 4 hours with it and because I'm
perfectionist and my credo is "If you do something do it properly " I
spent more than 9 hours over few days. I did section by section from
beginning to the end even though instruction were to do it as a whole
and not in sections.
Very
pleased with it and especially after I thought it was impossible it
gave me the whole new level of confidence and first time since I'd
started drawing I felt like an Artist.
This
exercise was somehow a huge breakthrough for me and it did open the
door to a new world of drawing perception (very hard to explain the
feeling I have at the moment :)
Personal notes: a prolonged period of heavy concentration gives you a massive headache!!!
Discovery
: Graphite is lifted up even though a fixative is used. I was working
on this piece for a few days and covering it with some glassine paper to
protect it between my drawing sessions. I noticed that over few days very dark areas, almost black, on Day 1 was middle
grey on Day 3 and at the end I had to retouched picture quite significantly.
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