Drawing – Page 2 – Ken Crocker Artist

Three Teachers, One Drawing

I owe this 25-minute quick sketch at last night P&C open studio to lessons taught to me by three teachers: for being able to set up a overall layout on a page, Max Ranft; for how to use Prismacolor pencil, Bob Schultz; and for how to construct a convincing human form in space, Michael… Continue reading Three Teachers, One Drawing

A Good Start and a Dump Truck

This is the fifteen-minute start of a 25 minute drawing. The model had trouble with her leg (half sitting on a metal stool cut off her circulation), so I couldn't go any further. But I liked how “raw” it looks, with lots of rhythm lines and basic shapes. To be honest, many times from here… Continue reading A Good Start and a Dump Truck

Gesture and Structure

I guess you could say this 25-minute drawing from last night's open studio is neither a gesture or structure drawing. But it is the result of thinking a lot about these two aspects of figure drawing. I'm trying to use gesture to draw the whole connected figure instead of doing it part-by-part, and I'm trying… Continue reading Gesture and Structure

Constructive Figure Drawing

This 25-minute drawing was done with the specific intent of practicing figure construction. Since I love quick-sketching the figure, I look for any way to improve my technique (I'd also like to better understand why an artist draws the figure, but that's a whole other topic). One significant way to improve I've found, is to,… Continue reading Constructive Figure Drawing

Vitality

I thought I had done a pretty good job on this 25-minute pose… until I got home and found that I had drawn the model with a sunken chest. So I made a few changes in Procreate. I tilted her head back a little and brought her back in under her shoulder blades, but most… Continue reading Vitality

Figure Drawing… What’s It All About?

Thirty-minute quick sketch last night at the P&C. I've been spending a lot of time lately trying to figure out what figure drawing is all about (no pun intended). A lot of the “theory” of figure drawing seems to go back to Leonardo DaVinci, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, and the other “old masters.” But they all drew… Continue reading Figure Drawing… What’s It All About?

Figure Sketching (Again)

This is a 10-minute charcoal sketch on newsprint (18 x 24 inches) at last Friday night's open studio at the Palette and Chisel. I love figure sketching and I love back views. Thanks to working at least half-time since last fall, I've had a chance to read almost all of Robert Beverly Hale's books on… Continue reading Figure Sketching (Again)

Fifteen-Minute Sketch & Gottfried Bammes

This is the last drawing at last night's open drawing session at the Palette and Chisel. I did it on 18 x 24 inch Strathmore paper using vine charcoal, with a few touch-ups inProcreate on my Ipad. And here are some quotes from “The Complete Guide to Life Drawing,” the only complete English version of… Continue reading Fifteen-Minute Sketch & Gottfried Bammes

Second Ipad Drawing from Sketch

Here's my second Ipad drawing based on a figure drawing from quick sketch studio at the Palette and Chisel. Here's the woodcut by Hakutei Ishii (1882-1958) in Modern Japanese Prints 1912-1989 that I based the composition on, and my original approximately 20-minute sketch:

Sources

To the left is the original half-hour sketch I used to make the print below that I posted last time: And here's the 1934 Japanese print by Toraji Ishikawa titled “In the Bathroom” that I used for the basic design: The print went really quickly. It only took about 4 hours. Now I'm working… Continue reading Sources