School Pencil Drawing

3 A Limited Palette Study from Your Sketches My Drawing Course

Drawings OCA Part 3 Townscapes III - A Limited Palette Study from your Sketches The Wellington - Strand. Pen and Pencil on Orange Paper. National Portrait Gallery. Graphite and Coloured Pencil on Pastel Paper . I really enjoyed this exercise and drawing townscapes in general it is not a subject that I have previously explored all that widely

A Limited Palette Study From Your Sketches P. 95 In this exercise I chose three colours as a limited palette Orange Black white and decided to work from a photograph in this instance. I also decided to merge some of the components from previous sketches into this piece

Using your sketches from the previous exercise select a drawing to develop in colour. Begin with a horizontal line that defines your personal eye level. Use a limited palette for this exercise - no more than three colours. Traditionally these would have been deep brown sanguine red brown black and white but decide which works best for your subject. Use cont pencils coloured pencils

Limited but warmer palette red of the brick work blended into both the blue of the sky and grey of the road stronger contrast of dark tones. Conscious that neither of these drawings dealt with perspective not that I saw this as an issue but decided to tackle the building using two point perspective.. get to a point where I had captured the

Using my sketches from the previous exercises I decided to develop this composition and add limited colour. I have chosen to use dark brown a reddish brown and green. I used prisma colour pencils for this exercise. I started by adding in areas of colour applying light pressure and building upon this. I wanted to keep a loose

So we can start to talk about a plan to do your artworks. 3. Step 1 - Sketching With a Pencil But before we jump in coloring with different colors we need to study all the reference and plan how we ll draw all these buildings this lower wonderful ground the doors and windows and where light and shadow will be.

A limited palette will be set up and explained. The benefits of using a limited palette will be on display with a brief color study painting. A step by step process of how to develop a composition will be done with a lecture followed by a thumbnail demonstration. The thumbnail will then be developed into a color study that can be used for a

Exercise 3 - A limited palette study Inadvertently I ve done this exercise with the last drawing but I thought I ought to do it consciously so I went back to the drawing of the community centre and pub. Charcoal and conte on A3 looks a bit fuzzy. I tried being looser with my marks.