I recently purchased the June 2019 of Leisure Painter which had an article by Steve Strode about the basics of acrylics. He suggests you model good painters, and gives an example in the magazine of his painting based off of Peggi Kroll-Roberts‘ style.
This is the first figure I’ve ever painted, and my goal was 1) just to do one, and 2) was trying to focus on using minimal brush strokes — just to boldly attempt it, in other words.
This charcoal pencil sketch is based on an image by sarahbernier3140 from Pixabay, which I intend to paint at some point soon.
Here’s a few pages from my sketchbook where I was drawing gestural human figures, with the object of maintaining proportions but not focusing on detail. Getting the gist, I guess.
One of the benefits of membership in ArtistsNetwork is viewing certain videos. The other day I watched a video on quick studies in figure painting using acrylics taught by Craig Nelson. On this ArtistsNetwork video, Nelson does 3 different quick studies of figures: one in 20 minutes, one in 30 minutes, and one in 40 minutes.
Based on his video, I was reminded of what I read in Kevin MacPherson’s book about doing 100 “quick starts”.
I had never heard of the guy, but it turns out he posts to YouTube and teaches at Academy of Art University, and his website is here. On his website, I learned he had published at least 2 books on art, one called 60 Minutes to Better Painting. I found a used copy on Amazon, and it just arrived today. I’m excited to check it out!
I worked on this figure (from the reference shown) last year, but never completed it. Maybe later…
This is the first of three quick sketches of street musicians we are doing for the Graphite module of the DrawAwesome class. Emphasis is on getting the basic proportions of the figure correct, and playing fast and loose with shading, hands, clothing. 2B and 4B pencils only.
This was a quickie sketch — maybe 45 minutes or so — from the DrawAwesome course I’m taking.
