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Work in progress, a drawing of my favorite model. This is actually a procedural study for a larger piece; I like this blue paper and the black and white charcoal, and I’m trying out the concept of using a bristle brush to smooth the initial charcoal layers for tone, and then going back over with [...] Firmly into study of the whole leg now, from the pelvis down. Tonight’s model happened to be a young lady with an athletic build, which is always a nice bonus when looking for specific anatomical features. You can’t see the ilio-tibial band on just anybody. I think the legs might have been the most successful drawing [...] 13″x10″, black and white charcoal on blue Canson mi-tintes paper. Trying something new on this plate: rather than blending with a stump or a chamois, I’m using a hogshair brush to blend the strokes of charcoal. It’s a gentler process and it’s a bit easier to control than a chamois and less destructive than a stump, but it does take immense patience. It takes a [...] Today was a rough day. But we had a decent life drawing session, at least. Just did legs during the gestures, posting some notes I need to get back to (like how far above the knee do the vastus lateralus and the iliotibial band separate?). Then a 10-minute pose which I felt was one of my [...] Sunday is painting day, when I get to muck about with oils a bit and keep grinding some basics. The rest of the week are drawing and study days, but Sunday I can get dirty. So I set out to paint a banana today. Only trouble was, I didn’t have colors ready. Wanting to do this [...] I can’t help it: I am obsessed with drawing faces. I think a convincing likeness is the hardest thing in the world to draw. This is well-trodden ground: our brains are specifically wired for face recognition, for obvious survival reasons, and so we notice tiny, tiny differences in faces that we wouldn’t notice anywhere else [...] I have to hand it to the Red Cross: setting up a system where you text the word “HAITI” to 90999 to send them $10 worked for me. It made it very easy, and so I did it. I guess in some ways, that’s fairly despicable; if you want to send help, you shouldn’t be [...] Back to what I’m supposed to be doing, here: focusing on just the part of anatomy that I’m currently studying. At least for the first one. After that things didn’t go so well. Tonight’s victory, I think, is the first one, the legs. I’m pretty happy with how it came out. The second, I was going [...] Yes! Still alive. On with plate 27. I’m trying to stick closer to the book’s recommended approach on this one, so after the refining of the outline, the next step is to block first the shadows, which I’ve done, and then the halftones, which I’m about half done with. From a distance, these look OK, but [...] |
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