The Never Ending Drawing

 10 hours is a long time. Especially if you spend 10 hours on one drawing!

That was our latest assignment in our drawing class was to spend at least 10 hours on our still life. That's 10 hours dealing with the joys of charcoal (I hope you could tell I was being sarcastic), 10 hours of squinting at a still life, 10 hours of frustration, 10 hours of stress, 10 hours of pure anger (people kept changing our still life, they better hope we never find who they were).

But 10 hours is really not that much to spend on a drawing that you want to do really well on, and we jam out to music in studio so 10 hours isn't probably as bad as it first seems!

So to begin our still life's we had to choose a spot, I gravitated towards the little piccolo. I have a soft spot for the instrument since I used to play it in high school!

Some of my sketches

After choosing a spot and subject we moved onto the final project! Even though some of my shapes are kinda funky it still turned out ok! We used fancy artist paper for our project even! Yay for art students! You know when your getting into art when paper, and erasers start impressing you..... wow.... Hope that just inspired you all to become crazy artists!  Using charcoal for this project was very challenging but fun! When using charcoal you almost work backwards. Its easier to cover the whole paper in a light film of charcoal and then start adding value and shapes. By using charcoal I achieved some really great textures by smudging the charcoal to make it smooth or ruff. For example the guitar and drapery are very smooth, but the inside of the violin case is velvety. Overall the project was great and I learned a lot!