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Cecilia - 516830
Learning Log
Drawing 1



Research on Artists' self-portraits
Rembrandt van Rijn, Netherlands, 1606-1669 Self-portrait at the Age of 63 (1669) This is one of the last works by Rembrandt, a...


Your own head
I started the exercise by making drawings from photos of myself taken 5 or 6 years ago, and did others drawing myself from life by...


Research Contemporary and historic artist who work on the face
Giovanni Boldini, Italian, 1842-1931 The portrait of Giuseppe Verdi, 1886 This is a very realistic pastel portrait of an elderly...


Facial features
For this exercise I did several sketches from magazines, firstly just the eye area - Then two portraits from photos, one using silver pen...


Moving figure: Group of figure
For this exercise I did three sketches of groups of figures using charcoal on a A3 cartridge paper. The first was done during the break...


Moving figure: Single moving figure
a. First I chose to do some sketches of my dance teacher explaining waltz movements, done from a video I took in one of my lessons. It’s...


Structure: Three figure drawing
I did the exercise on different days during my life drawing class On the first day I did sketches of about 20 minutes in soft pastel on...


Research: Historic and contemporary artist whose work involves the underlying the structure of the b
Leonardo Da Vinci. In the middle ages and the renaissance the main subject was the human figure, which appeared in almost all paintings....


Structure: The structure of the human body
For this exercise I did some sketches of parts of the body in my life drawing class, and found it difficult to isolate my vision and draw...


Form: Energy
The exercise was to do a sketch to catch movement, which I chose to do of my husband and his dance teacher as they began to dance tango. ...
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