Drawing
Practice: Drawing Human Figures
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.
Quick Sketch: Rose in a Vase
As with the study of my cat in yesterday’s post, this rose in a vase done while I visited my mom was sketched in compressed charcoal.
One of those 20 minute things.
Quick Sketch: Cat on the Stair
This is a sketch of one of my cats which I did with compressed charcoal last fall.
Model in Charcoal
Today I was actually painting from a demo painting of martinis in How to Paint Fast Loose & Bold by Patti Mollica. But I don’t want to risk copyright issues so I’m not posting it. (Besides, you can check out the real deal in the book, which I can assure you is much better than my effort, lol!)
So I’m posting a charcoal drawing I did last year while I get to painting based on my own stuff.
Figure Study (from Draw awesome class)
I worked on this figure (from the reference shown) last year, but never completed it. Maybe later…
Warm-Up Portrait: 2nd Version
The main difference between this portrait and the one I posted a few days ago — besides the color of the paper and the lack of sticker residue — is that rather than using the white “charcoal” pencil, I used the eraser to lift the color for the highlights in the eyes, and the earring.
The image is from Anastasia Gepp on Pixabay.
Street Musician #1 (from Class)
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.
Quickie Figure in Envelope
This was a quickie sketch — maybe 45 minutes or so — from the DrawAwesome course I’m taking.
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