After a few portfolio days, I finally finished my observational drawing of Lucinda. I feel that I put a lot of time and effort into this but looking at it now, I think I could have done more with the facial features; which are definitely a weakness of mine. Something else which I find difficult is toning very dark colours. The boots seemed to work great because of the way that leather shines and reflects, but the cardigan I found to be a little trickier when balancing light, dark and shadow. Even so, I would consider it my best hand rendered drawing of a person so far. I fear that my slower approach to drawing will be a disadvantage when it comes to quick life drawing, though the exercise could definitely prove beneficial in furthering ability.
Later on, we had to cut our renditions of classmates out and mount them on the wall in a composition. For some reason, the concept of "smaller = further away" wasn't at first grasped, which lead to a difference in opinion. At that moment in time, I chose to stay out of it and see what the class came up with. The first result was all a little messy and due to odd placements, made one or two of the drawings appear to be out of place. It also didn't help that tables/chairs were missing, which threw off the structure. The final composition worked a lot better and it seemed that everybody was on the same page. A few late comers added in their work and personally I feel that the composition may need to be tweaked some. Overall, it was interesting to see how the different sizes and styles worked in relation to each other.
The following image is what the second composition looked like. I thought I had taken one of the final layout but it appears that I didn't. Perhaps I'll try and get a shot of it tomorrow.
Edit: The final composition is below. Kindly borrowed from Lucinda.
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