Parts is parts

Practice, practice, practice... body parts!

Face parts

This is yet another practice assignment for my AIS (Art Instruction School) work. The face parts are already there, the exercise is to shade them adding tone and texture. In my 30 minutes this morning, I was able to get a lot done. You can see an unfinished outline drawing in the bottom left corner.

Tomorrow... part DEUX!

Drawing the eye

Okay, a little play on words. You'll find no eyes here!

The exercise is called the Center of Interest and it's part of the coursework I'm doing for the Art Instruction School. The lesson covers how the human eye is drawn into a composition and how in your art you can lure the viewer in.

These are just simple drawings but you can see from the pencils that the eye is drawn to the pencil that contrasts sharpest with the others. In the second drawing, the bottle with the most detail draws the eye.

Doesn't really fit with my desire to be more free flowing with art, but the course has been excellent in teaching me so many fundamentals.