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

#481

Hi Rebeccak,

Yeah, Hong is an old friend from several years back, he is quite the draftsman. I haven’t spoken with him in about 2 years but I am hoping to get back in contact with him soon, perhaps in this forum. I tried his old website but it is currently not up.

I wanted to congradulate you on starting such a successfull forum here, great job. I will be participating when I get the chance. I took a 3 year detour away from art but in the last 3 weeks I have decided that it is time to get reaquainted so I have begun doing the DSG to start with. Brent (scupltgriff) is a close friend and has a good deal of skill for a young guy and improves very fast. It should be fun to see what he is capable of once he learns to use the software. I need to learn it myself, which is why I am posting. I am awfully rusty but I will improve with time and practice, I hope.

All my best, and congrates again on what you are doing here.

#482

11th Door,

Thanks so much for your kind comments, and I have seen some of your work on DSG, which is fantastic! Indeed we would love to have you here on the Anatomy Forum as well (It sometimes comes to blows with Roberto, we fight over CGTalkers, lol!) :slight_smile: Did you attend Art Center as well, or did you connect with Hong thru the LA Fig. Academy? I took a course there with Steve Huston, which was fantastic! :slight_smile: Hong is indeed an exceptional artist, and a super nice person to boot. I’m happy to have reconnected with him after many, many years! :slight_smile:

I’m thrilled to have you and scupltgriff, both very talented artists, on the forum, and I really look forward to seeing more of your work! :slight_smile:

Cheers, :)

~Rebeccak
#483

Hey all :slight_smile:

Some great stuff been posted on here while I’ve been away :slight_smile:

Went back to my drawing tonight… I have done a better value study for the background and roughed in where I think the pattern will go. Ignore the colours for now, they are very temporary.

I will be doing more on the figure too, hopefully tomorrow.

All crits very much appreicated.

Rebecca, if you are still interested (or anyone else :slight_smile: ) I have my 3D wip up now,

Thanks

Amy

#484

amy_517,

Oh, cool, thank you for linking up your 3D WIP! That is really cool to see, so thank you! I will check it out more thoroughly a bit later… :thumbsup:

With respect to your painting, I definitely think that the values in the bkgrd need to be resolved ~ remember those values!!! :wink: Definitely go darker, especially around the body.

Looking forward to seeing your next update! :slight_smile:

Cheers! :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#485

I know that I’m extremely late but hey practice is practice

third try:

great work everyone!!!

86er: thx for the process - looks good

#486

MattVogt,

Welcome to the forum! :slight_smile: You know, technically it’s never too late to post here, as all Open Figure Drawing Workshops (OFDWs) remain open indefinitely, even though we will be posting a new set of two drawings every two weeks ~ I will be posting OFDW 003 Sunday or Monday. :slight_smile:

Can’t take a detailed look at your piece right now, but welcome aboard, and I hope you enjoy your stay! :slight_smile: Do you plan to do any digital or traditional painting? You don’t have to, just wondering. :slight_smile:

It would also be nice if you could share with us a little about your bkgrd / and / or training. :slight_smile:

Cheers! :slight_smile:

~Rebecca

#487

[font=Verdana]Thank you for the warm welcome Rebecca! These open drawing sessions are a brilliant idea – oh wait the whole anatomy and figurative art thread is a brilliant idea! First I should mention your tutorials are first rate
I didn’t have the time to take part due to class but now I’m free and ready to dive in. My favorite so far is your opposing curves ( ) tut, it took my lifedrawing to whole new level (note “so far” I can’t wait to browse through the other 70 threads of great art and critiques oh and the kickass tuts) . I believe what you’ve started here is something great and I thank you for it. That’s all I can really do considering it’s free, well that and maybe use the example you’ve set out and give back to the community someway myself.[/font]

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[font=Verdana]I’ve been doing figurative life drawing for less than a year. I’ve been taught on two separate occasions, one by a nice little lady that worked (lived) at an art gallery – she taught more about developing your unique style,work flow and just go with it (“feel the line etc”). She drew very flowing focused mainly on the finished piece. Last week I just finished a two month traditional animation course at Capilano College (North Vancouver) which the life drawing was more focused on structure, foundation and structure. That two month course gave me a strong foundation in character design all the way to storyboarding.[/font]

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as in light table, disk, page flipping ooohh yeah. The way I see it it’s two fold: study of movement (great another thing to observe and study :wink: plus the number of drawings I’d produce would be insane! I fear that classical animation might be going the way of the dodo bird, at least in Vancouver it is so I’d be happy doing 3D or maybe Flash. As for the concept artist well ideas and design play a big role in my “targeted” industry oh and I love whipping up speedpaintings[/font]

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And yes I love painting I prefer digital mainly because I can do it in my bedroom and afford it! I’ll sit back with traditional when I’m living in the forest…hunting my food

btw your value lesson was invaluable to me! I did a little value study to ease into it:

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#488

bad sketch…:wise:

#489

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Geez, lol I thought it would be easy, but I’m wrong. It took me about uhm… 2 hours. I just noticed that the back isn’t properly measured… … need to make it more sided. :S I hope it’s decent enough though.

#490

MattVogt,

Wow, thank you for all of the nice things you’ve said about the Anatomy Forum! This is highly encouraging, and it is really amazing to get this kind of feedback! Thank you. :slight_smile:

I think that with resect to your drawing, you need to relax your lines a bit, and slightly loosen up. I know this is easier said than done, particularly in the beginning. What I always recommend is to TRACE your initial drawing, either traditionally or digitally ~ this affords you the ability to see mistakes more clearly, and it takes one away from the mentality of having to get everything right in one go. Once you have traced your image, then redraw, freehand, the same image again. I think that this will really help! :slight_smile:

Thanks also for showing us your shading exercise. :slight_smile: I think you might try blending a bit more, and what I would recommend is to blend not using the smudge or blur tools, but practice using varying opacities of lighter and darker values to get things to work. This will train your eye to see values more clearly. You can sample a value with the eyedropper, and then go either slightly darker or slightly lighter, and paint values with varying degrees of opacity. I think using this technique will help you to see values to a greater degree. :slight_smile:

zhuzhu,

This is not a bad sketch! Traditional watercolors are nearly impossible to correct. You might try doing a more complete pencil sketch first (lightly) before coloring with watercolor. :slight_smile:

DreamMaster,

Lol, looks can be deceptive! :slight_smile: Be careful not to scrunch the arms and head too low close to the body ~ right now her torso looks pretty good, but her head and arms seem to be too short proportionally ~ I would raise the head a bit, and adjust the arms accordingly.

Additionally I would suggest starting to blend using the technique I described above ~ sampling tones, and going either slightly lighter or darker, and painting with various opacities over your existing work.

Finally I would recommend adding a darker ground beneath the figure so that the figure does not appear to ‘float’ in space.

Good work so far, and just continue to push those values and to refine your drawing! :slight_smile:

Cheers! :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#491

Ohhh I see what you mean about head! I wasn’t paying attention to it… I was focusing intensely at torso, legs, and feet. I was trying to color it from what I see because I felt like sampling color would be cheating. I’ll work on it with sample and see what happens though. :slight_smile: Thanks. :smiley:

#492

DreamMaster,

Hey, Ctrl + Z is cheating, too, but I highly recommend it. :wink:

Cheers, :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#493

Ok, here it goes! This is probably one of my first gesture paintings. Infact, it’s probably one of my first paintings where I didn’t get totally frustrated and just left to do something else.
I spend around 15-20 minutes on this one and I intend to do MANY more. I would really like someone to point out what could have been done diffrent, what I should remove and so on.

Many thanks for the great photos and all the artwork in here!

#494

I’m quite pleased with the shading on this. I see a lot wrong with the form, are torso is too wide for a start but as it’s the only one I’ve had time to do I thought I’d post :slight_smile:

4b pencil, black karisma pencil on tea stained paper

all comments welcome

#495

gorgnut,

Welcome to the forum! :slight_smile: Thank you for posting your work. :slight_smile:

The primary thing I see happening in your drawing is that you have lines which are running more or less parallel to one another. What you want to do is use curves which are offset from one another to describe form. Take a look at my Anatomy Review 002: OPPOSING CURVES for an in~depth explanation of this concept if you have not already done so. Basically, it describes a method for achieving volume by describing form with simple offset pairs of curves. Feel free to ask any questions ~ this is a concept which takes a lot of time to learn in practice. :slight_smile: Take a look at that Lesson, and feel free to post another drawing! :slight_smile:

enialadam,

I really like your line quality in this piece! The main thing that I would say is to stretch and lengthen the figure height~wise. I know that it is difficult if not impossible to correct a traditional drawing, so if you would like to continue traditionally, I would suggest either tracing/correcting your existing drawing, just to see where things ought to be lengthened, and then doing another drawing using what you discovered in the tracing.

If you plan to work digitally, then corrections will be that much easier to make.

Definitely look forward to your updates!

Cheers, :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#496

Thankyou Rebecca much appreciated I will make some changes asap.

Thanks again :smiley:

#497

Thank you, rebeccak! Will jump into it right away :slight_smile:

#498

No problem. :slight_smile: Also, we are on to OFDW 003, so please join us there if you have the chance! :slight_smile:

Cheers, :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#499

[font=Verdana]Rebecca: Thanks for your helpful comments. True it’s extremely hard to relax my lines – I’ll work on it. I’ll definitely trace these old ones and draw them once more. My un-relaxed lines are me just afraid of screwing up but I’m positive tracing will ease me out of that rut - Great tip! As for values your tip about using the colour picker then choosing lighter/darker while simultaneously varying the opacity has improved my last dsg significantly.[/font]
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#500

MattVogt,

No problem! Glad to be of help. :slight_smile: Looking forward to seeing more work! :slight_smile:

Cheers, :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak