- The document outlines a 12-day drawing course, with each day focused on different drawing exercises and techniques. - Exercises included exploring line, tone, perspective, textures, human forms, and compositions through activities like contour drawings, blind contours, still lifes, and figure drawings. - Key lessons and takeaways included understanding pressure and consistency in line quality, exploring tones within a medium, proportion studies, and improving observational skills. - The participant found exercises like drawing with non-dominant hands, upside down portraits, and black card drawings particularly interesting and helpful for developing skills. Areas of weakness identified were drawing human forms and applying appropriate lines.

1. Drawing
Generic skill 2
Duration: 12 days [February 17th –
March1th2014]
Facilitator: Sonia Jose

2. Day 1
A page full of circles
A page full of triangles
Circles of different sizes and applying
different pressure gave a hold of the pencil
in drawing continuous line.
Triangles of different sizes have
straight lines which allowed us to
make rigid lines and gave a space to
explore the angles.

3. A page full of
circles or triangles
of the same size
with thick and thin
lines separately
made me look at
different tones of
the same pencil.
Also a sense of
visual application of
lines was observed
by me very
appropriately.

4. Exploring continuous lines by making dark to light and light to dark single
lines by swirling forms and straight lines without lifting the pencil allowed me
to understand pressure of the same medium in one stroke.

5. My medium to do the above exercises was an HB pencil.

6. Drawing parallel lines keeping consistency in application and the slightly
altering application in terms of consistency, pressure and spacing.

7. Continuous parallel lines with or without obstacles in pen made my hade more
comfortable with drawing lines accurately and increased my concentration also
while drawing lines.

8. Line drawings of many objects on an imperial sheet gave an initial sense of
composition. It even included an observation of objects while drawing them
quickly. Adding different thickness of the pencil gave it a 3D view.

9. Line drawing of a genre(shoe) in 10
different species and composing them
is a visually appealing way was an
interesting exercise because it included
drawing skills as well as a sense of
space to build a composition.
Giving different
tones to the same
gave it a 3D look.
Also allowed me
to understand
different tones
that can be
achieved in a
single pencil.

10. Day 2

11. Img 2.1

12. Img 2.2

13. Img 2.3

14. Tracing and layering
The first exercise using tracing paper we had to explore
application of line by using different mediums as well as
altering pressure. I added tones to my image although that
was not required. But then in the second composition I
could focus on line and making a whole new composition
by various experiments of overlapping and layering using
contrasts in line. I experimented with the second
composition in 3 stages. Img 2.1 was my first attempt where
by overlapping and layer I took different images and
combined them. In img 2.2 I added more imaged to my
first image which did not quite work out. Them finally I used
img 2.1 to make my third composition which was img 2.3. It
came out to be a very well balanced composition.

15. Day 3
Line exercises continued/ looking at shapes and proportions

17. Quick sketches of human form was an exercise which
was new for me as I am not very fond of drawing
human structures. But as I did these quick sketches I
was able to capture essence proportions. I could
understand the basic structure of the human form and
all the gestures that gives the human body a form.
These sketches were 2 min drawing each and done in
2 ways. Initially the person was standing still and we
had to draw them and after that it was more about
capturing that one moment of the persons gesture
and putting it down on paper. So we had limited time
and so much to remember.

18. An upside down drawing
.
Draw a portrait or a
human form from a
picture that is
turned upside
down. It was an
interesting
experience and
gives a beRer sense
of line and
negative-­‐‑positive in
an image. It did not
come out to be a
perfect portrait but
it was very much
similar to the
image.

19. 5 sketches of you hands using your dominant hand

20. A drawing of your hand using your non-­‐‑dominant other hand
A blind of your hand by not looking at the paper
A blind drawing of your hand with your other non-­‐‑dominant hand

21. A rendered drawing of your dominant hand.

22. BeRy Edward’s ‘Drawing
from the right side of the
brain’
This was an interesting exercise. I had a lot of fun
drawing with my left hand. It was all about hand eye
coordination. In another exercise it was all about
observation with eyes and coordinating your hand
likewise with intuition. It was not at all difficult but I way
of observation for me. I think it was more like a eye-
hand coordination test for me. It was important to
understand how my left brain is more strong
compared to my right side of the brain.

23. A portrait from life with right hand and one blind drawing of the same.

24. Objects

25. Day 4
Perspective is something very important to understand while drawing and
because I have never learnt about it this exercise was a good way for me to start
with this. I got to know about how people observe from different angles and
come up with one point, two point or more perspectives while drawing a
certain space indoor or outdoor.

26. Tone
Grey scale exploration gives a
beRer understanding of the
tones from a single medium.
After doing this exercise I
could now device the
flexibility of one color tone. It
gave me more shades of a
single color which I thought
couldn’t be there. Applying
this table I made objects with
as many tones as possible.
Earlier I used to use one pencil
and complete my drawing. But
now when I know how
different pencils work I use the
darkest 6B to lightest 2H in
most my sketches.

27. Applying grey scale to objects.

28. Day 5/6
Drawing the human form separately gave a sense of structure, proportions and
composition while placing it on a single sheet of paper. The different exercises
involved one figure on one page, two figures on one page and three figures on
one page.

30. Line exercise with flicking the pencil and altering pressure without lifting the
palm from the sheet and applying the marks achieved in a creative drawing

31. Bags and shoes
6 compositional studies

32. Drawing the same thing from different angles give a basic composition and a
sense of placing the objects on paper. And detailed rendering of the bags gave
more basic knowledge about tones and lines. Giving the texture of a cloth was a
challenge but it was very much interesting as I used many tones of grey.

33. Day 7
Studying line and tone in drawing keeping in mind form, proportions,
contrasts and composition

35. Black card
drawing
This was one the most
interesting work because the
whole style was changed.
Usually we draw on white in
black, but drawing on black card
in white was totally different. I
think this was because the part
that we used to sketch becomes
the part we don’t sketch now, we
leave it black. More of
observations and more of hand-­‐‑
eye coordination. I could use
another darker shade of black
but as an image it came out to be
a perfect drawing.

36. Day 8
Textures
Tone, lines and textures
together was explored
in this exercise. I tried
two organic and two
inorganic objects. I
found organic objects to
be easier may be
because the texture is
more lively and
interesting which gives
the objects some kind
of smoothness and
visual appeal.

38. Day 9

39. Preparatory drawings

40. Still life
The still life is all about
observations and copying down
what you see. I did this detailed
study of a still-­‐‑life with 3 -­‐‑4 objects
of my choice to bring out my
understanding of contrasts in line,
tone, texture proportions and
composition. I figured out I am
good with tone but weak with
form and appropriate lines. The
composition was also very
important. Arranging the still life
and composing it on paper was
something I learned. And one
problem that I largely faced was
the movement of objects thrice.
Full Imperial size drawing

41. Day 10
A half imperial size
detailed drawing
incorporating tones/
textures of a human
figure. This was from live
and I tried to complete it
in 10 min. The proportions
were fairly fine. This
activity was necessary for
me as to understand how
to compose a human
form on paper and also
how tones work when
the canvas in enlarged.

42. 100 drawings

50. The 100 sketches I did were of human body. I am not
fond of making them so it became my weak point
and now I wanted them to be perfect. So I chose to
make these sketches. I am fine with proportions of
objects but human proportions are not my cup of tea.
So I tried to do that and practice the same as much
as possible. To me this was a great opportunity. There
are still problem with my form and lines whilst
sketching but maybe if I continue doing that I could
improve on that too.

51. Final Day
When the graphite touches the blank
sheet of paper there is a thought of
something coming up on the canvas.
And when it is not the same it
probably weakens your aspirations. I
love drawing and I am doing that
since 2 years now. But this course was
very necessary to build up my skills
and improve my quality of work. It
was of great help as I was drawing on
my own but needed a skillful support
for my mistakes to come across. And
it did. So my lines, form and human
proportions is something I need to
work upon more than my tones and
gradations which are at par fine. This
course allowed me to know what I
knew but I couldn’t figure out.

52. The End