HNY too all and Exercise 1 in drawing

Out and about today at Westfields White City - Amazingly now the  biggest retail centre in Europe and very easy (for me) to get disorientated  there - happily got a new shirt (Uniqlo)  and I see that HMV is back there trading again too ...

And in February  2019

HMV in 2020

1. Practise sketching the outline of an everyday object using a pencil.

so first exercise is to sketch using a pencil, I choose a pencil first 4B - I choose to have 6 attempts initially.

Then look at the object an apple.

1) Idea is to refine the approach and I  reckon the main thing here is to learn something about looking, realisation is that an apple is not round and I will at this stage ignore all but the actual outline.

2) Should not be tempted to merely refine (and reference) the first effort but to look again - left hand side is improved but right hand side to far up top quartile.

3).will start with left hand curve, then right hand curve -top which is almost flat and bottom - almost flat too- quite like this but needs to be slightly narrower and less circular.

4) this effort feels better but have used eraser more - feeling is that first line is important to establish the scale and how it will 'work'- am now thinking object is more symmetrical than I had believed to be the case.

5) Started on right hand side and then tried to do a reflection of this on left, top is fairly flat but perhaps mad bottom too flat and too wide.


6) Fairly happy with this but also tried something else (below).

And the apple