Human Figure
Drawing Figures: More Practice
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.
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.
Quick Studies in Acrylic — Craig Nelson
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!
Figure Study (from Draw awesome class)
I worked on this figure (from the reference shown) last year, but never completed it. Maybe later…
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.
After Degas… Woman Combing her Hair
This is a 20 minute charcoal sketch based off Degas’ Nude Combing her Hair, which he did in pastels.
You can see where I had to restate lines to get the shapes (somewhat!) closer to the original.
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