I have a free blog for my university course and it’s rapidly running out of space with a whole final project to go! My solution is to post some of the copied images here and link to them. Clever, huh? … Continue reading Copying for practice, posting for storage
This section contains some exercises using cubic simplifications of bodies to get a feel of volume. For some reason, these just throw me in that I find the detachment from a whole figure confusing and unrelatable. I skipped those and went on to a copy of an actual figure, this one by Geoffrey Flack (2015). Mine is in graphite pencil and again I found some success with the gridding. I’m particularly pleased with the angle of the head but oh that hand! I think I might resort to photographing the original and zooming in on-screen so I can actually see … Continue reading Figure drawing atelier – volume
The task is to use a model and to block in basic shapes as they sat. Lacking a model, I am using internet images and my own photographs. Rather than detail, I’m aiming at form using more gesture than measurement. This suits my way of perceiving shape; too much attention to that kind of detail and I lose track of the whole. Quick sketch of a seated figure via Bing. This is a sculpture listed by American Legacy Fine Arts, the artist’s name isn’t given. I’ve used black conte. I didn’t get the angle of the head, either from the … Continue reading Part 4, project 3, exercise 1 – basic shapes
I’m using an A4 sketchbook for this, at least for the preliminary phase. I liked the effect of combining ink wash, pastel, and charcoal pencil so I’ve gone for that again. I sketched first with HB pencil then applied the … Continue reading Part 4, project 2, exercise 2 Longer study
Quick sketches of live model. For all sorts of reasons finding a model to sit for drawings has and will prove difficult but I do have one that’s always available and generally cooperative – myself. A couple of weeks ago … Continue reading Part 4, project 2, exercise 1
These are sketchbook drawings mostly from internet models. Today a new box of pastel stumps arrived and provided an opportunity for very quick sweeps of shape and form due to their stubby shape. The first two sketches are on gesso-prepped … Continue reading Part 4, figure drawing
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