Day two working on the female form. I have christened this drawing ‘Modern Woman’. The idea behind this today was to mKe as realistic drawing of the woman as I could. However what is real? I am not sure now as having spent the day trying to create the most realistic drawing I realise that this is controlled by your technique and the materials you are using. In this case I am using charcoal and try as I might I can’t get the control I vet with pencil. I could, of course, use charcoal pencils but I enjoy the tactile feel of charcoal in my hand so I have decided against this.

So how real is she? Well in one sense very real but in another not. She certainly isn’t a photo real drawing and I am glad of that. I have seen many such drawings and paintings and I always come away thinking why? I think there is a wold world of difference between drawing and photography, both bring something special to the experience but they are not the same.

Is she better than yesterday’s attempt? Again yes and no. In short she has a life of her own – indeed I am referring to her as ‘her’ rather that ‘it’ which probably says more about how real anything is.

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