Muscle Structure. Combining Black and Colour Media

 This Week's task is to show my further understanding of the human figure with colour choice and aesthetic with my medium is dry (soft) pastels. Because the lighting in the room used to create clear shadows on the model, my process picture is not well taken. The light at the place where I sit is turned off with strong light on my left side...

Process

I started with a fast sketch of the pose with light pencil lines before I start using dry pastels.

It was rather hard to use the pastel as their surface was too big o create thin lines, I try to keep my sketch under control, which makes me sacrifice the dynamic weight lines to replace consistent thin and clean lines.

I received feedbacks and fixed my anatomy, I tend to draw the legs too short so I extended them in the upper picture. But in this session, I was told I draw the legs too long.

I start colouring in the skin and using varies colours to create value, blushes and skin tones with my limited colour choices.

I tried to draw in the face up it is hard to do with such a wide surface of the pastel.

I lost a lot of details during this stage but was more concern about trying to finish my task before the time runs out.

Final Piece

The pastel colour is very fragile, and flaky, and leaves a lot of colour dust that may destroy my work if I was not careful. It is one of the harder mediums I worked with but I am glad it is finished. I would improve this work by creating a bigger piece to make the drawing more detail. That would require a bigger canvas since this page is already a full page of A3.