Life Drawings - Post Your Life Drawings! From Class or Workshops

#181

Here’s one from the this weeks class>> willow charcoal, 2 hours ish.:slight_smile:

Apologies for the quality of photo, there’s a distinct lack of daylight here, its snowing!

#182

I love the line quality and the treatment very Cool!:cool:

#183

I took the quickest peek ever, and I agree, beautiful linework!!

Be checkin’ back later…gotta get my nudes on, ROFL…:smiley:

Cheers,

~Rk

#184

AOAH,

Well, looka here! Andy’s a real artist ~ beautiful work! :thumbsup: Very Fechin like, I’d have to say ~ which is ace in my book. The area I find most beautiful is that of the torso ~ there your focus is the crispest, with the feet becoming a bit too mushy and undefined. The thing that’s great about the drawing is the sense of perspective ~ which is lost a little bit, unfortunately, in the arm and to some extent in the head ~ but the overall sense of the viewer’s viewpoint is quite strong and nicely considered.

Nice post! :arteest:

Cheers,

~Rebeccak

#185

Thomasphoenix> thanks :thumbsup:

RK> THanks for the wise words, much appreciated:). I recon its Probably my best drawing of the current course, I’m starting to get it together after a few weeks of floundering around in mediocrity.

Andy [i]flowing[/i]

#186

Some marker drawings from this weekend.

#187

Hey Sheff! :slight_smile:

Great to see you back, you really have to participate in our

15 Min. Sketchathon Thread:

It’s just about the hottest thing going around here! :thumbsup:

Cheers, :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#188

LIFEDROWINGS!!! :smiley:

done in very wired position, because that’s me in the mirror :slight_smile:
10-15 minutes max!

#189

Glad to see u here sheff! i will go ahead and start to post my life studies here as well, nice work as always sheff!:thumbsup:

Question, will you be returning to school next quarter, I want to sit in on your classes, back to the good old days, I only have one class next quarter then I am gone after that, I may go ahead and continue to come to open session after I graduate!

#190

Marker drawings from yesterday,

Bryce,

I do intend to return to teaching either in April or June. I still have yet to see how fatherhood works out for scheduling. My wife goes back to work in January, so it’s up to me to stay home and be dad.

I emailed Regina and told her I was willing to do an independent study for students who were interested this coming quarter. Otherwise, I won’t be teaching in January.

If you are interested in that talk to Jon, Milan or Regina.

#191

[b]Icey,

[/b]More beautiful drawings!!! It’s great to have you on the forum! :thumbsup:

Sheff,

Glad to hear you will be teaching again soon! I think your students will be quite happy. :slight_smile:

Nice work, as always. :slight_smile:

Looking forward to some baby sketches! :wavey:

Cheers,

~Rebeccak

#192

there is alot of really cool stuff up here…

Sheff is that a brush pen or one of those regular chisel type of markers… not that it’s that important, but that is some damn good linework!

Icey, … good stuff especially using a mirror… that can be really tough!

Here are a few longer poses… 40 - 50 mins approximately!

#193

Rebecca,

I know I’ve been remiss with the baby sketches. They’re coming.

Lipten,

Yes, it’s a brush pen, specfically, a black Tombo. I’m drawing on bristol, so you can make the lines bleed with a wet paper towel because the ink is water soluable. If you were to draw with brown/sepia on better paper, you’d have budget Tiepolo drawings. That Tombo is about 10 years old so it’s kind of drying out and the tip is a bit worn. So as a result it makes lines that are a little bit lighter and the strokes are a little bit more random and harder to be precise. On the back end of the marker, it has a sharp point. When I’m drawing with it, I take off both caps and just flip the pen as necessary.

#194

Sob no Sheff, not till April!?:cry: :cry: jk! I will talk to Jon about that, and see if I can do that even if it is an independent study. If you can, can i just do an apprenticeship? That would be cool! Best of luck to you with your child man, and again congrats dude!

lipten- Your work is great! Yeah to sit there under sheff is really cool!

Icey- sorry dude that was rude of me to not comment on your lifedrawings, Great stuff! That is pretty difficult to do draw yourself, but it is great!

#195

Here is something from open session with sheffield, and others! Not the best of work but, its ok, guess. Oila on watercolor paper, sorry I was experimenting.

#196

Bryce,

If you’re going to break rules like painting in oils on watercolor paper, really break them hard. I know that you’re using the water miscible oils but try using them on hot press water color paper or some other durable smooth surface and add more linseed oil. Personally, I like slicker smoother surfaces because I like to work fast and and glide around the work area. Cold press papers have too much tooth and slow me down. I wouldn’t work on cold press unless I was rendering. Paint wet into wet, on a surface that won’t suck the oil into it. You just need enough tooth on the paper to form a physical bond with the paint but not so much that you feel drag on your brushes.

Here are a couple of examples:

20 minute poses and 4 color limited palette. These pieces are from when I was in school and they’re over 10 years old. They’re nowhere near as bad a condition that I thought they would be.

#197

Bryce,

If you’re going to break rules like painting in oils on watercolor paper, really break them hard. I know that you’re using the water miscible oils but try using them on hot press water color paper or some other durable smooth surface and add more linseed oil. Personally, I like slicker smoother surfaces because I like to work fast and and glide around the work area. Cold press papers have too much tooth and slow me down. I wouldn’t work on cold press unless I was rendering. Paint wet into wet, on a surface that won’t suck the oil into it. You just need enough tooth on the paper to form a physical bond with the paint but not so much that you feel drag on your brushes.

Yeah, I remember Kevin saying the same thing to me. I will try that next time! I think I will paint over one of my old canvases and try to paint on that next time. Yeah I had problems moving the paints on the paper, and a lot of the linseed oil was being absorbed into the paper. I will try to use soomething smooth, next time for oils, who know what I will do, stilll a need for improvement a lot, thanx sheff!:wavey:

Are we having open session this weekend? I may show up but that is real iffy though.

#198

No open session this weekend. I think Kevin said that it starts back up in January on Sat afternoons. Talk to him to verify.

#199

Yeah, I just got the news earlier tonight from Kevin. It will be in session on the first week next quarter. I hope to see you there, and bring your kid as well, i will like to see him/her, sorry sheff don’t know if you have a boy or girl. I did not get that news!:thumbsup:

#200

hey this is my first post to this forum, i have been doing life drawing classes! there is a very sad story behind this picture! which i think i should tell. My first life drawing session and in came through the door a lovely sweet happy go lucky lady called tory who was the life model for the night, i drew a few pictures of her, the session ended and i drove home looking forward to drawing her next week!.

I heard on the news there had been a accident that night and i did wonder how i would feel if it was someone i knew!, well few days later i got a phone call!, it was the life drawing teacher she told me that the young model lady had died in a accident!, so i am adding this not only as a drawing to show, but in memory of a sweet lady.
God Bless Tory