Ruined mansion in the woods (pencil) + doodles

This is the photocopy, i'll attach the original aswell


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let me know what you think




and these are some random scribbles as a result of boredom

 

ooooo love the way you use the pencil, wonderful control and you can feel it so well, love it!

 

Try some charcoal drawings of it from inside or something, I'm sure you could get something to look pretty awesome with that

 

charcoal isnt my strong point but Im getting better with it
and monocontento: this isnt the original, this is the photocopy...the original is in my album. I should have posted that one actually. A picture of the house it was drawn from is also in my album.
Glad you liked it, thanks for the compliments

edit: oh yeah I forgot the origional is attached

 

This is very nice.

 

I agree. Charcoal drawing whould go great with that scene.

My advice: Try make it darker, using a softer lead pencil, or pressing much harder, especialy along the main lines- to try build up the contrast up a bit.

Keep up the good work.

 

thanks for the advice, it would have been darker if it was up to me but my art teacher is a very controlling ditsy woman whos obviously taken too much acid she doesnt let us use darker lines along the outline because "it detracts from the 3D aspect of it" she'll rub out lines, add her own "ideas" of what works and when you protest she gets pissy about it.
I dont usually listen to her though and just go about things my own way but in this project darker lines would have been better as the finished project had to be faxed through to the art gallery for display. The rules were that it had to be faxed, otherwise the gallery wouldnt accept it

 

rules.

art.

Those 2 words don't belong in the same sentance.

Any artwork produced is infinitely more important than a letter on a piece of paper.

 

Your teacher is right about the "no dark outlines" thing, but beyond that she sounds like a nuts-o.

Try using charcoal pencils, they are so much easier to control than just charcoal sticks. Plus there are varying hardness to them. Add in white chalk and you have a full value scale.

When I use charcoal I usually start out with an overall light tone from a charcoal stick. Then I go about with details/contours.

Main thing that sucks about charcoal is that it is super messy and smears. Use this to your advantage. Get some paper towels and smear the charcoal in the way you want it, instead of brushing your palm over it accidentally and ruining a spot you had completed.