NOW OPEN!!! Open Figure Drawing Workshop with Hong Ly and Rebecca Kimmel 001

[PSR]

Here Goes. After seeing all the work here I decided to give it a try. Never used photoshop to paint with before.

[donseeg]

Sorry to not have posted as much as I had wanted. Sometimes life gets in the way of important things

anyway, here is my wip. This closeup is so that anyone that is interested can see how i line my strokes with the form. It also shows how I put the bright colors on the edges. I am still trying to keep the painting very fluid as I go for more accuracy in the overall image. I use both the background and foreground to define some of the edges. It is probably also worth noting that I am not trying to duplicate the photograph. I am beginning to decide which details are important and which are not. It is kind of the difference between folds and wrinkles. Folds are important and wrinkles are not.

There are some really nice things going on in this thread and some very dedicated people. This coupled with a very good host who is dynamite at critiquing…great combination.

zhuzhu, really nice pencil drawing. have you ever tried silver point? you might love it

Really, this thought is for everyone including myself. Drawing the curves of any object, as Rebecca constantly beats us over the heads reminding us, is very important. I often find it useful to consiously exagerate some curves. Almost always as you paint, an exagerated curve will slowly become less exagerated. I don’t know why we have this tendency but it seems to be quite universal with artists. I also find, depending on the medium, that drawing curves with larger sweeping lines will help them maintain their shape. small and forced lines will also soften as you paint becoming formless. paintings of fabric tend to show this problem very well, but it is also applicable to most subject matter. I hope that might have made sense, It is very late and i really had better head to bed.

Cheers eveyone
Don

[weilong]

This is mine

Please everybody to much criticize to point out.

Thank:)

Thank:)

Thank:)

http://img119.photo.163.com/good3dmax/14171595/341911029.jpg

[Rebeccak]

Don,

Fantastic!! Thank you for posting this. I think it is incredible to get to see your working process, and to have you here giving some great, dynamic advice to our agreeably dedicated group here at CGTalk!!! I am more and more impressed with folks’ postings everyday! And thank you for the compliment, that means a lot to me.

I can completely understand getting bogged down in other things. I’m happy you’ve taken the time to post here, and generously offering your thoughts. Thank you for reinforcing what I’ve been expressing about using Opposing Curves and Values in both Drawings and Paintings. It’s interesting to hear you talk about the same things in your own way, and I think it goes a long way towards elucidating the subject matter for all of us! So thank you.

Can’t wait to see more of your work as it progresses!

~Rebeccak

[Rebeccak]

PSR,

NICE work so far!!! I like the painterly feel to the digital paint and that you seem capable of both expressive strokes when they are required (such as in the background) and detailing strokes on the figure. Take a look at the artist Nicoli Fechin ~ his work is a profound essay on this kind of dialogue between the broad and loose gestural stroke and the small, precise details that make a painting harmonize visually. Man, I love that guy’s work! Thanks for posting this, and keep going! Right now I think that your whites are starting to blow out, so you might want to take them down a notch, and gradually rebuild up to a particular area of white. Reserve absolute white for your BRIGHTEST highlight, and make all other highlights some shade of gray. Good luck with this, and post your updates!

  weilong,
 
 [b]GREAT[/b] work so far!! :thumbsup: My suggestion: add [b]contrast[/b]. :) ~ Add some [b][color=PaleGreen]black [/b][/color]in the [b]background.[/b] Add some [b][color=Wheat]white [/b][/color]for [b]highlights.  [/b]Keep going!!! And please post your results. :)
 
 Welcome to the forum!! :)
 
 ~Rebeccak

[b]NOTE:[/b] It is harder for me to review or even look at these particular during the day due to work, so please do not be offended if I do not immediately post comments for your posts. :) While it's tough for me NOT to look at these images :( I will try to get to more reviews this weekend from home.

Sometime soon I will be posting a new set of images for [color=Orange][b]Open Figure Drawing Workshop 002.[/b] However, [b]this[/b] and all workshops will still remain [b]OPEN [/b]for posting, tho generally speaking as we move to the next workshop, my primary attention will be on the new one.

Looking forward to [b]Open Figure Drawing Workshop 002!!! [/b]:)[/color]

[weilong]

Thank, thank, I will attain of!

My other work, ask animadversion to point out:)

(Old man)

(WOMAN)

http://666kb.com/i/10oxwe5cpyuio.jpg (NEW WORK)

[allenatl]

Thanks for the critiques, Rebeccak. I’ve saved some of your pages on opposing curves to my hard drive along with the small shading and values tutorial with the skull. There’s a tendency to overlook the basics sometimes so it helps to have this stuff for reference.

[AmyScott-Murray]

Zhuzhu - what a beautiful sketch!

I feel bad always asking for crits and not giving any, but I feel like the work on here has gone way beyond my ability to criticise.

Anyway, here’s my reworking of it :-

Any comments before I start on the head?

Thanks

Amy

[PSR]

Many thanks for your comments, and the heads up on Nicolai Fechin. Very sensuous paintwwork. A marriage of James Tissot and August Renoir perhaps?

I see what you mean about the whites. Do people use the Dodge and Burn tools to adjust those? I had not intended do more to it, I was looking forward to the next set of poses.
But I will see what more can be done with it.

I think that the figure drawing workshop is a wonderful idea, thank you very much for making it available

[yAdam]

!This thread is amazing. So much quality work, oustanding stuff! Great to see all the advice / tutorials too :applause:.

I decided to start off with a pencil sketch, scanned it in and now i’m going to paint. Heres the sketch:

Had to use auto adjust. I draw so lightly sometimes that my scanner cant pick up the lines. Onto the painting now. Also, I see some problems that I will try and rectify. The inside of the torso seems the biggest problem at the moment (I think). Crits are welcome

Oh, and also gonna try and get back to my rubens copy if i can, sort of forgot about that.!

[SpiritDreamer]

Hello to Pushav & dbclemons

Thanks a million guys…You don’t know how much you just helped me.
For the [color=cyan]last 5 years I have been trying to get rid of these jagged edges, and you have just solved my problem.:bounce: [/color]

And to Pushav…I was able to put your brushes in my Painter 8…and actually found them and was able to use them! :bounce:

Thanks again!
Glenn

[Llynna]

thank you for your tips rebecca

i just started with a new sketch after going through the awesome opposing curves thread.

i am currently at my 5th try for the grayscale… well, as someone pointed out: for every good one you get 7 bad ones^^. after one hell of a day with my new professor, i found my motivation at the bottom most place you can imagine… but because of all these awesome postings here, i was able to get it back.

@spirit dreamer: when i am working with painter i usually blend with some custom brushes with resat set to 0% and bleed around 50%.

[default-rol]

Did some bad sketches, (and some worse ones) for this thread -

Sorry.

Had to submit them to the forum just to help shame myself into doing some better ones during the next round…:hmm:

MIKE

[pushav]

Hello to Pushav & dbclemons

Thanks a million guys…You don’t know how much you just helped me.
For the [color=cyan]last 5 years I have been trying to get rid of these jagged edges, and you have just solved my problem.:bounce: [/color]

And to Pushav…I was able to put your brushes in my Painter 8…and actually found them and was able to use them! :bounce:

Thanks again!
Glenn

Did you enjoy the painterly blend that you can get the my brushes? Powerful stuff huh? Lol! Now you can rule the universe spiritdreamer! Have fun with them. Oh yeah make sure you save them on a disc. You can look at the setting to see what I was talking about to make it a blender. The brushes even work in painter 9. I ripped them from painter 9 when I use to have windows xp on my system.

To delault.rol
They are not bad. Just keep on redrawing the pose until you get it down. Right now I am trying the poses again in 100percent ink now which is a huge challenge. (no erasing allowed lol)

[Ego]

Pushav where are your brushes? Is it posted on this thread?

[weilong]

Renew the work!

Please point out mistake more~~Thank

[pushav]

weilong- nice work!

Quensoul- I emailed him some of my painter 7 brushes. Do you want some also.

[Flydesign]

Look forward on hear the critiques on this one. This was a quick sketch.

Enjoy,

Matt

[pushav]

Newwr pose

I used ink on printer paper (what a challenge)

[allenatl]

weilong, very nice painting. Don’t know if it was intentional or not, but it looks like the proportions were shortened vertically, giving her the look of some of the old Renaissance paintings with the healthier sized women.