Today is class three and it’s time for something a bit more challenging—the carousel horse—
Today I had the students put together all the basic things that we have learned and step by step we took on this new drawing. This is one is pretty complicated so I know some of the students were a bit aprehensive. But as I have said, this is a BRAVE class and they took on the challenge.
We started by using light coloured markers to block in some basic shapes to help us see how our horse would fit on our paper. After that, we drew each little line, one by one. The most complicated lines were probably the legs with all their little curly lines to show the horses muscles, knees and hooves. Check out the great work—
After our horse drawing, we had a few minutes left to try one more little drawing. As an introduction to next week’s class on shading, I showed the class this little gremlin face—
Note the use of simple lines to create shadows on the face, ears and nose to create more round, three-dimensional shapes. We didn’t get to talk at great length about these shadows but we did quickly draw each line to make our gremlin faces and some students got to take a few quick minutes to try to replicate the shadow lines. These students will have to wait until next week for more. In the mean time, have a look at these great drawings!—
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