Trace's Lets Draw course

[dennis]

One of the main objects of the notan is the see the placing of all the dark areas.
Apart from the fact that they must have a good visual balance, they must also link closely with each other. You have them them nicely linked to each other and they form a pleasing pattern. 
Another point. In one of your previous still life drawings you had the objects spread out. Study all the good still life paintings and you will notice that all the main characters are very close to each other, actually overlapping slightly, to form a complete whole.

 

[Trace]

Thank you Dennis, I'll have a play a bit more with the placements, as I can see it seems to be disjointed, may be also its the objects I've chosen & I should ditch the gloves? The glove was to prop up the secateur, so that it wasn't flat.
I wanted to include the vase to give height, but also try my hand @ doing a shiny object.
and the bird & the bonsai were to be the focal point, but I'll do a bit of study of still lifes & see if I can pull these together in a better way

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I think I'm happier with this SL setting. I didn't realise that Still Life objects should overlap, thanks Dennis Still need to do a Notan for it.

[nolan]

see how quickly the notan allows you to place with the composition to get the balance right?

[nolan]

  with the next one Tracey

[Trace]

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Really rough, but the practice of getting the placements, steady my arm with the PD & fading the shadows was good to do.
The vase was meant to be simpler, just touching on shading & highlights, but I found it totally absorbing, intriguing and at the risk of been permanently cross eyed decided not to mess with this any further

[Bill76434]

The vase looks quite complicated you have done well.

[Trace]

Haha YES it was Bill! I didn't realise it was going to suck me in to all those angles.  

[Annie.]

Nice drawing, your shading are improving 

[nolan]

you have done a fabulous job with this drawing, well done Tracey

[Trace]

  Annie & Nolan I'm learning so much each day, it's hard to see if there's improvement! Now that the weather is improving down here in the southern land, I'm looking forward to getting outdoors & attempt some landscape

[JayJ]

Great drawing Trace!

[TeresaM]

Good drawing Trace 

[Trace]

  JayJ & Teresa.

[Trace]

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Hi Nolan, I hit a blimp in the outdoors module and I've spent 3 days studying the old masters, tried doing small tile sketches of parts of the above pictures and perspective revision & I'm now really confused and i don't know if i should be working on fore shortening, 1,2 or even 3 perspective & which lines to follow with lost & found.
I quickly became overawed with the scale of what i was trying to draw & with the old farm ute; the horizon was blocked, so I guestimated that & the VP.
Sorry I started the Booey tree as a grahite, but again i quickly was overawed with all the complexties of what's in/out & lines dimensions, that I ended up enjoying the moment of colouring.
Is there any practicle drawings you might be able to suggest to help me through this failing logic moment?

[nolan]

My suggestion at this stage would be to continue with the course. I don't want you to get overwhelmed with anything at this stage.

En plein air work is not easy when you are first starting out. In the course I just want to introduce you to all the various aspects of drawing. That way you will have a feel for which part you enjoyed the most.
After the course you can go back and specialise on the aspects you liked, eg. drawing still life, while practicing the more challenging aspects, like plein air