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

#81

Thanks, Rebeccak. I don’t get a chance to do much 2d work. I’m trying to focus mainly on improving my 3d modeling skills. Heck, you saw Steven’s work. See what I’m up against! But a thread like this with the great photo references was too good to pass up. Perfect timing, too. It forced me to step away from the computer and do some old fashioned drawing.

#82

allenatl,

Schweet! :slight_smile: I’m happy we could pry you away from your computer…if only briefly! :slight_smile:

I think a lot of folks on this forum are in a similar boat ~ working hard to up their 2D or 3D digital skills in whatever area, and after a while, it starts to be a grind. The thing that I love about traditional work, traditional drawing in particular, is that it (can be) relaxing and it forces you to slow down and think. I find that I have much more of an inner dialogue/voice when I am drawing than when I am attempting to model something in 3D. I’m not exactly sure why this is, but I think it’s to do with the 1 degree of separation you have from a physical object in your hands when you are working purely digitally. Anyhoo, that’s my two cents on this. Hope you find more time to draw! :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#83

commodore: That isn’t a bad attempt. Shading looks good on most parts. The leg could use some more work but I’m sure you know that already. Keep working at it and I’m sure it’ll turn out great.

zhuzhu: That looks great. I can see from your brush strokes that you know what you are doing. Can’t wait to see what you’ll do next.

rebeccak: Thanks. I really need to practise anatomy so this probably won’t be my last visit on these forums. And thank you for the effort you’ve put into these workshops and lessons. :slight_smile:

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Here’s an update. This is probably the most advanced painting I’ve ever done. I spent the best part of the day working on it. I’m such a slow painter. But I’m sure I’ll get faster with time.

#84

Thanks for the review Rebecca :smiley: Am gonna redo this. And tweak a lot. :D. It really is exciting watching this thread.

#85

Queensoul,

Great! I’m super stoked about this thread, this is something I think could really be a long-running thing similar to the Speed Paints thread on the main WIP 2D forum.

Do you guys think this should remain as just one massive thread, like Speed Paints? I don’t want to create a new thread every other week, as after a while, you would end up with just too many threads. AND I’m not sure I want to create more confusing hierarchies within the Anatomy sub-forum by creating a sub-sub forum just for threads like this one.

So ~ it kind of looks like the one massive thread thing for now ~ tho what I dislike about that is that no one likes paging through millions of pages to see old work.

Any thoughts guys/gals??? :slight_smile:

EDIT: Note:There will still be NEW MODEL REFERENCE on a bi-weekly basis, no matter what the format turns out to be. :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#86

Well it might get confusing if it gets too cumulative. Maybe a fresh model once a week or two weeks , under a fresh topic will reinvigorate everyone.

#87

Thank you for your kind words rebecca and thedagger. I thought it was too bad to continue. I allready started on the second ref. After I’ll finish that I’ll work on with the first one.

#88

Queensoul,

There will definitely be new model reference on a bi-weekly basis, no matter what the format of the Open Figure Drawing Workshop thread/s. :slight_smile: I definitely realize that after two weeks, folks will need new Reference from which to draw. :slight_smile: And I agree that a cumulative thread gets confusing…so maybe I’ll create a new thread for the Open Figure Drawing Workshop 002 and then later, if there are too many of them, we’ll move them into their own sub-forum or something.

commodore,

You’re welcome! Trust me, nothing is too bad to continue, and your work is not ‘bad’ at all! :slight_smile:

You know, the biggest mistake I ever made was trashing most of my school work after I graduated from college without documenting much of it. At the time, I was not a digital person at all, and I just kind of figured that it would be better to start all over again ~ I figured that the important part of my art school experience was the training I received, and not the actual work I created.

Of course I regret this now, because I could have seriously digitally reworked a lot of my old, heinously bad drawings and paintings with Photoshop or Painter, but, ah well. :slight_smile:

At any rate, my point is that you can rework digital pieces forever, so there’s really no such thing as a bad piece. Until you’re happy with your work, it’s just a WIP. Even if you look at the early stages of pro artists, you can see that their work looks wonky in the initial stages. It’s natural. The mistake is to make things look too perfect from the beginning. You want to mass things in generally first, and then go for details.

Stick with it! There is a payoff in the end. :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#89

FIGURE DRAWING FORUM! FIGURE DRAWING FORUM! C’mon! Who’s with me? Yeha!

#90

traditional pencil drawing, i printed out the reference image so i could
look at it while drawing

#91

And that is the Squibbit that we know and love. :slight_smile:

 (And, folks, that is as silly as a drawing of the model is allowed to get. Squibbit is...well, special in his own way...) :scream:

Squib, this is a cool drawing! The left side of her body is particularly well drawn. I hate to admit it, but I kind of like the fish the best! :smiley: It’s really awesomely drawn. :slight_smile: The main crit I have for the figure is that her right arm looks as though it is coming from her bun and not her arm. But good god, man, don’t do so much eyework until your eye heals!!! I will not be responsible for the blindness of the Squibbit!!! :slight_smile:

  ~Rebeccak
#92

i thought you spotted a mistake

how do you like the line from Ransom?
i came up with it cause while drawing
i was remembering how Naomi Cambell
once held me hostage for seven years

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#93

shakes head in disbelief and admiration somehow mixed together in one meatball of puzzled inquiry

 Ah, right, of course...she is of the hand bun family (not to be confused with the hand [i]gun [/i]family), "Homino HandBunnus" is the Scientific name, I believe...I retract my earlier statement. I pronounce this drawing...Squibbit's!!! :beer:

Dear me, they really just don’t prepare you in art school enough to encounter the likes of the one-eyed, multi-talented, and slightly off~kilter (but killer funny) Sir Squibbit. :wavey:

 ~Rebeccak

EDIT: Erm, Squib, did they give you anything, er, medicinal to soothe your lasik~recovery eye pain?

#94

Ok, my last two attempts have sucked badly, so I sniffled a little like you do in the fourth grade (you know, like when you take several successive quick gasps of air) and tried again. I’ll be adding the head, arms, and legs shortly to my so far headless torso:

[left]~Rebeccak
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#95

I rendered mine a bit more:

#96

-Brittany-,

Hey, this is really shaping up! :slight_smile: One thing I find funny about everone’s posts is that nearly everyone without exception who has chosen the back picture has just gone straight for the buttocks first to render. :slight_smile: So far, the lower half of the body is the most rendered and volumetric looking, and I would just say to keep going and to make the torso look just as volumetric and ‘real’. I like your color pallette, pastel but not too pastel ~ you can really work a desaturated, darker background with a more saturaged, lighter figure to your best advantage.

Keep going, it’s good to see your progress! :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#97

A reworked version, this one all digital (Painter.)

-David

#98

Some thoughts on future workshops:
I vote in favor of separate threads for each session. I think it’s better organized that way.

I’d also like to see the occasional male model. We can pose too, you know. Well, not me.

It might be nice to have the occasional clothed model as well, or partially clothed, or costumed; fabric in there somewhere.
-DBC

#99

dbclemons,

Beautiful work, and I can't wait to see the finished painting! :thumbsup:

I agree about the separate threads. If ever there were to be a sub-forum just for these threads, they could be moved easily, whereas 1 giant thread would be impossible to tease out into separate categories. I think I’ll just keep the same naming conventions and call them according to number, ie, 001, 002, etc.

Male models, agreed. I am working on a deal with a friend of a friend of a friend who is a bodybuilder who wants me to paint his portrait. I am going to ask him if he would consider posing, either nude or clothed, for photographs for these threads in exchange for the portrait. Hong has taken photos of clothed models as well. Perhaps we can alternate photos, depending on availability, between female unclothed, female clothed, male unclothed, male clothed, etc.

You also just gave me a really good idea ~ on occasion, we should concentrate in these threads on specific features ~ for example, heads only, hands only, feet only, etc. That way we truly can use each other as models. That’s actually a really great idea, because it will give everyone the chance to get to know one another as well. Or at least their feet. :slight_smile:

For those of you who are good photographers (I am definitely not) it would be great if you could take some really nicely lit, in either a warm or coolly lit setting or nicely contrasty combination of the two, photographs of friends who would be willing to have photos of their features online ~ clothed, of course, unless your friends are really daring ~ features such as: hands, feet, arms, legs, heads/faces, ears, etc.

You can email me pictures at rebeccak4@gmail.com, and I will post these on a rotating basis. Pictures would have to come with some kind of written consent on behalf of the photographed stating that it is ok to post their images online. You should also put a copyright symbol and your name on the photos as they will remain your property.

Thanks much for the input, it is definitely appreciated. Please let me know if you have additional suggestions / ideas! :)

~Rebeccak
#100

I have been spending way too much time doing work I don’t particularly care about. This sounded like a fun way to unwind a bit. My technique tends to be very similar to how I paint with oils in that I cover the whole image with a color or value to get rid of the white and then draw and paint over that. Here is the initial sketch. It is in reality about 3 times as big. I usually go for an overall statment working from the biggest curves down. I do not try and refine much at this stage since I have made plenty of errors that will need to be corrected as I proceed. If I produce a very refined drawing I go into the old coloring book mode of “trying to stay in the lines.” This is not a good thing. As I start painting I will post some more. Thanks for looking, this is going to be fun.

Don
www.seegmillerart.com