Artist Toolkit - Life Drawing

Life Drawing update, the eleventh!

So I went back to my HB pencil and charcoal last session, and I feel like my drawing has improved somewhat. 

I really love that defiant pose in the second image, where Robin has his chest propped forwards. I think I did that justice. 

Life drawing update, the tenth!

Once again, I've used those snazzy chalk pencils, and I'm really liking the result. I do think I should perhaps change it up next session, perhaps by using a water pen to smudge the chalk a bit. But that's for next time! 

I think some of these are really succesful. Particularly the first image, as well as some of the smaller poses in the second image. 

Life drawing update, the ninth!

I got to try out my new chalk pencils this session, which I was mightily impressed with, I tried to push what I was doing last week a bit further, as Vicky mentioned that I should try to keep the picture going. So with that In mind I decided it was high time I got to grips with negative space, and weight. I think I've got closer to being happy with the results.

And I really do enjoy using those chalk pencils. Next time I might try blending them with a water pencil to see where that gets me.

And yeah, that's Peter O'Toole at the bottom, we were given the task of drawing faces towards the end of the session, Ones that were expressive. So I picked this...



...as I'm incredibly fond of this still from Lawrence of Arabia.

Life drawing update, the eighth!

Practicing with shadow blocking

Half hour studies in chalk

Quite happy with a couple of these, I particularly like the final studies in chalk, and would like to develop this sort of style in further sessions, but focusing on making it a more complete rendition of the subject rather than the outlines. 

Life drawing update, the seventh! (Post 100!!!)

As is the norm for these sessions, it took me a while to find a groove. I'm quite happy with some of the poses here though, and Robin was quite fun to draw. I plan on doing a few more studies later on, just to follow this up and strike whilst the iron is hot so to speak. I'm finding it a bit easier to include foreshortening and weight in my drawings. I think this shows in the last pose. I am particularly fond of that left hand! 

I think I'm starting to reduce my line-work into something more akin to Mike Mignola (creator of and artist for Hellboy) Which I can't say is a bad thing. 

Life drawing update, the sixth!

5 minute poses

20 minute pose, edited. 

Experimentation with pointillism

As this was the first life drawing class since the christmas break, It was good to have a subject to draw again. I tried to do something different in each piece, this session. I think I will be taking pointillism further in my own studies, but I also quite enjoy the second image as I tried to be a bit bolder with colour, and further to that, making something altogether "new" in a post edit. 

Life drawing update, the fifth!

Life drawing update, the fourth!

I rather enjoyed this week's life drawing session. 

Next week I'm aiming to come out of my shell a bit more and attack the page with colour! Vikki has encouraged this.

For now though, I thought about the way I could increase the dynamism in these drawings through photoshop. Here's some of that. 

Ciao. 

Life drawing update

5 Minute studies

1 minute studies (to be used in tomorrow's class with Meg)

20 minute studies

Quick sketch of a jolly - actually I don't quite know what he is...

Life drawing update, the second!

Another batch of life drawings!

Life drawing, 3 week update.

Study of structure.

Negative space within structures.

Quick sketches. 

Drawn without taking the pen away from the paper, and under instruction not to look at the paper too much.

The first batch of quick sketches. I could feel my arm wanting to fall off at one point :P

20 minute study

Last sessions quick sketches,  I love some of these. 

I didn't mean to cut his head off, but there it is. There's probably some kind of subtext there that I'm wholly unaware of :P 

Sorry about the spuddy quality on a few of these, (They're all photos taken in horrible lighting, my mistake).

Over the three weeks I can track a marginal improvement in my drawing skills. I'm actually itching to get some more life drawing sessions in!