Sketching

In our sketching lesson with Kat we spoke about and practiced using different sketching pencils in correct way to create different shaving effects and shapes.  

We first practiced drawing basic shapes to help us become familiar with the way we hold the pencil and keeping straight lines which mat first was quite diffiicult. Keeping all the sides of an equilateral triangle the same was a struggle! But here is what I achieved.  

We also looked at different pencils and practiced shaving holding the brush at at the far end to give your hand more freedom when drawing shapes. 

 You can see in this picture that I've used different pencils and that some are harder and some are softer so they can be used for different aspects of drawing for example a 6B could be used for very dark shading and a HB2 can be used for very light drawing. 

Taking what I had learnt from Kat's lesson I then went home and tried for myself drawing some still life. As my skills with drawing at the moment are just beginning to develop I decided on an apple as my first sketch and was quite surprised that my sketched turned out better than I had expected!