Today we did a two hour tonal study drawing, which i enjoyed so much i can't even describe it.
The key to our drawing task was to cover the whole page in graphite hatching, to create a general mid-tone then use a rubber to rub out the lightest areas of the scene, followed by more graphite hatching to darken the shadows. We were suppose to look for differences in tone and work the whole drawing at the same time, contours weren't allowed, so I didn't even do a faint pencil outline, before starting to draw. I enjoy painting, and this exercise felt a lot like oil painting to me, because nothing was fixed, you could change and shift your marks over and over again, by rubbing out or darkening certain areas. The challenge was to work gradually, and resist the temptation to get sucked in working on certain details, because every single tonal value in the drawing had to relate to the whole composition, and not just to the adjacent area. Here is my drawing from this exercise.
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