Artist's Drawing and Inspiration

Clockwork Orange

MATERIALS

• Arches hotpress 640gsm watercolour paper.
• 2B pencils (good quality).
• Staedtler Rasoplast rubbers.
• Two sharp knives.
• Spray can of workable fixative suitable for graphite.

INTRODUCTION

You can’t draw like this quickly. Choose your subject carefully as you will get sick of looking at it long before you finish drawing it. You can draw anything, but some subjects are more suited than others to the technique of chiaroscuro (light and shade).

The photograph should be substantially smaller than the drawing. In this case the paper is 590 x 385 mm (approximately A2) and the photograph is 300 x

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