sketchbook examples

Try heightening your charcoal drawings with white chalk. Did you know you can use cheap hairspray to set your work?

Observe carefully when you draw a common object. Draw as large as you can. Notice the difference the ground paper makes. Which color do you prefer? Why?

Crop your image for a more interesting composition. Prepare your background paper with color before you begin your drawing. How can the background color change the mood of the artwork?

Start with a drawing from observation and then don't he afraid to PLAY.

Notice how diagonal lines create movement in a composition and lead the viewer's eye across the gutter.

View an object from different points of view. The more you do the better you get!

Try practicing drawing parts of the portrait away from the face. PLORK!

Make sure you have more positive than negative space in your composition. This is a symmetrical composition.

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