A Change In plans...

I have decided to spend more time on the sketching portion of my project, especially the drawing people part of it. After doing a bit of sketching of faces, I realized that 2 weeks on this topic like I planned would not be enough to actually get much accomplished! I really want to improve in this type of art, and to do this I must practice more and do more. I have done some portraits to start with, and I hope to post them in this coming week.

Some sketches...

 As I said before, pencil sketching is probably the type of art that I am most comfortable and confident in, and I do enjoy it. Usually I use regular "school" pencils, but this time I used an actual sketching pencil, and I didn't really  notice a significant difference between the two. I enjoy sketching because everyone has their own little techniques, so there is no right or wrong way to do it, and everyones drawings are a little different and unique.
Here are the two pencil sketches that I have done this past week. I am very happy with the way that they turned out.

One of my techniques is that I NEVER smudge the pencil strokes, which is what a lot of people tend to do. I have seen many, many drawings that have used smudging and look fantastic, but personally I don't like the way it looks on my own pictures (or maybe I am just not very good at smudging :) ). I prefer to use tiny pencil strokes to do the shading, and I like the look of this much more than what it tends to look like when I smudge it. Another weird technique/thing that I do is that my pencil ALWAYS has to be sharp. I find that it is much easier to do detail and shading this way.

So that concludes the object/animal part of the sketching unit of this blog. Next up, is portraits and sketching people (Eeek!).

Sketching

The next type of art that I will be posting about is sketching. Pencil sketching, to be exact.
I have done sketching ever since I was a little girl, so it is probably one of the first types of art that I have ever done. Also, I think that its safe to say that sketching is the type of art that I am the most comfortable with, and I enjoy it very much.
However, the one thing that I am not as comfortable with, is sketching people. I think that is because the drawings have to be "perfect" or it will not look like the person or look unnatural. That is a little out of my comfort zone, and I would prefer to draw animals or objects. But since part of this project is about getting me out of my comfort zone, I will also be working with portraits and drawing people.
This weeks posts, however will focus on drawing animals or objects, and I will work my way into sketching portraits probably by next week.