So I'm back in the UK again....actually I'm up in lovely Edinburgh and this is my first drawing since I came home from the Florence Academy of Art. It's a smaller and shorter figure study than the monster drawings we did at the FAA, but all the same it was a lot of fun. I managed to find a really nice quality paper up here in Edinburgh made in Someset. It's smoother than the Fabriano Roma paper that I'm used to and therefore more suitable for this kind of smaller drawings with a smaller portrait. It's supposedly grey....that was it said on the label but it looks more yellow to me. Since I really like drawing with both chalk and charcoal I might try to dye some paper for my next drawing to get a darker shade of grey.
I used a photo as reference for this drawing since I don't really have the funding yet to hire a model 8) But I have actually managed to find a life drawing class up here in Edinburgh that have 4h poses, so I'm really looking forward to going to that!
