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"Girl with folded legs looking up" Graphite pencil female figure drawing

Girl with folded legs looking up (Graphite pencil female figure drawing)
Artist
Matthew James Taylor
Medium
Graphite pencil
Date
29 Oct 2007
Creation time
15 minutes
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Drawings
Figure drawing
Foreshortening
Nudes
Pencil drawings
The female form
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This is the first time I've done life drawing in about a year. I was a bit rusty at first but after about five or six drawings I started to loosen up. I used my favourite short charcoal pencils sharpened in a bullet point style for the first few drawings - they give a fairly sketchy line on the rough paper. Then I switched to a HB sharpened to a needle point. I find that when I make the change to such a fine point I suddenly have all this extra detail to play with and my drawings become a lot more accurate. This is great for a while but if I use them for too long I tend to get bogged down in the details and I have to switch back to charcoal to loosen up again.

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