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
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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
Last Night’s Figure Sketch
Here's last night's most successful figure sketch translated into a Japanese woodcut-style image via Procreate app on iPad. I had a lot of fun working on this print. It's very loosely based on a print by Ishikawa Toraji that I found in Modern Japanese Prints 1912-1989 by Lawrence Smith, a book I've come back to… Continue reading Last Night’s Figure Sketch
How I Quick Sketch
Above is the last drawing at last night's quick sketch session at the Palette and Chisel. In this post I'll describe how I create a drawing like this using my evolving procedure for half-hour quick sketches from the model in charcoal. My materials are: 1. 18 x 36 inch Strathmore Drawing Pad (80 lb. off-white… Continue reading How I Quick Sketch
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