Sjaan’s 100 Day Challenge: Figure drawing in charcoal/pastel

[Jan]

I agree that your drawings are beautiful! I especially like Day 38. You have made a strong statement with a very small amount of detail. The drawing seems to combine characteristics of both Steve Huston and Lane Brown. The pastel and charcoal combination in Day 36 is also very striking.

[Jeanette Assies]

Day 39: charcoal on grained paper. Quick sketch this time, due to lack of time. I call this my contingency plan when your day schedule does not work out the way you wanted 😉

[Jeanette Assies]

Day 40: charcoal on grained paper. Another quick sketch. Busy times 😉

[Jeanette Assies]

Day 41: Charcoal on grained paper. So I missed a post yesterday, so I am posting 2 drawings today to make up….. I used my preferred approach: starting with a gestural drawing and massing in shadow parts. I took about 30 minutes for detailing and composition. I really like the gestural drawing because I feel the motion then. Better then starting with shadow masses. On the other hand I like to start with shadow masses because I can focus on composition more then……I need to find a symbiotic way of combining these 2 approaches. That will be my quest for the coming 59 drawings.

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[Jenny]

Very beautiful drawings Sjaan! They are very inspiring 🙂

[Jeanette Assies]

Day 42: charcoal on grained paper. Continuing my approach, starting with gestural drawing and massing in the shadow parts.

[Jean-Pierre Fermet]

Very beautiful and inspiring challenge, Jeanette. It’s very nice to see the differences beetween the mediums and papers you use.

Bonne continuation!

[Jeanette Assies]

Day 43: charcoal on grained paper. Continuing with this medium and paper type. Took a little more time to work out details in the shadow and face. Love the pose. Sometime the pose itself is enough. You hardly can fail.

[Jeanette Assies]

Day 44: charcoal on grained paper. Spent a litle more time on detailing this drawing. Difficult pose.

[Jeanette Assies]

Day 45: charcoal on grained paper. I like this one because it gives me a feel of perspective.

[Jeanette Assies]

Day 46: charcoal on grained paper. The usual approach.

[Jeanette Assies]

Day 47: conte a paris, sanguine on grained paper. I dared to try the conte again. And I find the tone to harsh and to deep for my taste. Still I managed a drawing that I can appreciate. I like the way you can put in lines in the shadow part, to give a little more information without drawing any attention to it. But for me conte is primarily a drawing tool, not so much a suitable tool for massing in.

[erikdennes]

I’ve been using conte on smooth newsprint.  It will mass in better than my charcoal pencils.  I sharpen it like a pencil, and use a charcoal holder to hold it.  I modified a Jack Richeson Charcoal holder to accept the square conte instead of a round charcoal.  Works really well.  It is very soft compared to a pastel pencil, so you have to use a light touch.  The charcoal holder helps immensely with this.

[Jeanette Assies]

Day 48: charcoal on grained paper. I like the pose, 10 minutes, maybe spent 20 minutes. I will spend more time on the coming poses, but I need a new perspective on my challenge. This is getting too routine…..

[Jeanette Assies]

Day 49: charcoal on grained paper. Rollin, rollin, rollin….

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