A small update on my work

So I have actually being doing quite a lot of drawing, and I think my project is coming along quite nicely now :)
Here are a few examples from my sketch book .....

This first one is an attempt to use weight of line to give the drawing form, by indicating where shadows are with darker lines and the lights with, well, a lighter line. Although I do like this drawing on the whole I need to work on this a bit because I don't think I've got enough variation in the line.

This second one is similar to the first but I've introduced some tone, again something I need to work on some more as it seems a bit wishy washy, and kind of just unstructured scribbles. :/

This last one I do like though! I'm not sure if cropped pictures like this one will fit into the series that I'm planning, but I'll definitely be doing a complete drawing like this one!

Some more blind contour drawings.

'Blind Drawings'

To begin my drawing project I have been doing a series of 'blind' drawings - as in not looking at the paper at all whilst completing the drawing, concentrating totally on the subject.
Before I started these drawings I was flicking though 'Experimental drawing' by Robert Kaupelis, looking at some of the suggestions, but nothing really grabbed me, until I came across a sentence stating that,
     '...I am suggesting to you is that your first 20 or 30 hours of contour drawing is to be done completely blind.' (Kaupelis)
This I took as a challenge!
So far I have completed 17 hours of these drawings, some of which are interesting to say the least. It will be interesting to see what they look like by the end of the 30 hours!
 I have found that on some (probably many, if I'm honest) of these drawings I am quite lazy. The idea is to make slow drawings, 'look at your subject, one line or form at a time, and force yourself to believe that your pencil is touching the form you're attempting to draw'. I definitely know that I don't do this sometimes. The other thing I notice is the way I hold my pencil some times, which is definitely not good, gripping it to hard, like writing with a Biro in a way that I don't have much control over the pressure applied.
So at least so for I have learnt somethings!
Even though I loathe to put them up, here is a selection of the drawings I have made.......

Blind drawing - Boots,1

Blind drawing - Boots, 2

Blind drawing - Boots, 3

Blind drawing - Boots, 4

Blind drawing - Boots, 5

Blind drawing - Boots, 6

Blind drawing - Still life

Blind drawing - Feet

Blind drawing - Marbles, 1

Blind drawing - Marbles, 2