Critique: Attempts at assignment 1

I think I’ve worked out what’s eating me.

I have not been taking fully on board what I have learned so far on the course.
​Instead, I persist with my old approach of “drawing outlines and filling them in”. My partner has fetched me some brown paper. I shall use it to draw Assignment 1 with white pencils and crayons together with biro, graphite and charcoal.  This is because I enjoyed drawing the earlier warm up exercise on brown card. (That is in spite of a feeling of inner dread about the actual assignment itself) White cartridge paper is so intimidating. I shall try to approach the assignment with the same light heartedness as I had earlier with my crumpled cello bag.

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Having gotten that off my chest, I’ll just add that I’m quite pleased at how I drew the curve of the violin with continuous lines. It reveals a level of confidence I hadn’t realised I possessed. It’s one that I have reclaimed fairly recently. One comment I recall from a school report card said that I demonstrated “…a sureness of line…” Good to know it’s still in evidence.