Here is another drawing study from a master painting: London Visitors (1874) by James Tissot. I chose this image to practise drawing atmospheric perspective (the church) and also the varied fabrics in the painting. Please see comments for more info. This drawing is approx. 6x10 inches and took 17 hours.
London Visitors drawing
One of the most intriguing things I learned here about drawing fabric is that just by indicating texture almost no more drawing is necessary. If you look at the gentleman's tweed trousers, all of the drawing is of the texture only. I didn't do any tonal work there at all. The texture provides the tone! That really surprised me, and I've been using that technique wherever possible since; (less toning usually means more "sparkle" in a drawing).
This was also the drawing in which I discovered just how much you could blend different hardnesses of pencil. If you layed down for example, an HB, as I did in the darker areas of his hat, you can then blend and "drag" that softer graphitei into adjacent areas with a harder pencil, giving very smooth and subtle gradations of tone. Exceptionally satisfying when you get it right!
You can see the original here:
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