Open Figure Drawing Workshop 008 with Hong Ly and Rebeccak

#81

  • removing all the correct proportions and adding skewed ones

    • slowly but steadily replacing the interesting chalk textures with smooth and boringly oily ones
    • ruining details and providing implausible values

    :scream:

    More updates later today

#82

Wow, Mr. Mu! Really starting to shape up, especially the face and her right arm! :slight_smile:
Make sure not to make the leg too small ~ you’re within the bound of reason now, but I would enlarge the leg just a bit, and perhaps lengthen the torso a bit (a little copy merge, feather selection, paste + move action can really help in this process). Looks great so far, though, keep continuing to refine values and to reassess your drawing constantly.

Keep up the good work! :slight_smile:

Cheers,

~Rebeccak

#83

sigh

I think you’re right, her right leg is too short. Damn. Sadly, this means I have to redo her hand, too.

The good thing about the process I made is that while in former times I considered everything a result of mere luck so I would not have dared to touch any part of a painting again for fear of ruining everything, I feel much more secure about these things today.

So will just repaint it - and maybe ruin everything:scream:

thanks for watching, rebecca

#84

Mr. Mu,

That’s what copy and paste is for! No need to repaint necessarily! Just copy a selected area, feather the selection, paste it back into your document, and move it down using your arrow keys. No problemo! :slight_smile:

Cheers, :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#85

Thanks Rebecca - I think I’ll try and give this another shot sometime. The corrections you guys have shown me are helpful. And I definitely think you’re right that I need to watch my construction first. I pretty much blew it off on this one and it bit me in the butt.

#86

Hey everyone! SaraD, Drawmonger, Audit, and Corvax…simply fantastic. I love the look of the background on Audit’s piece! Not that your previous stuff wasn’t good already but I honestly see major improvement. Sorry about the lack of participation, but I’ve been absolutely swamped at work! Damn tedious wine label design. Anyway I hope it’s not too late to get some help from everyone before 009 starts.

So I started out with a quick gesture:

And about an hour of trying to block in some monochrome values. Hopefully soon I can get to the point where I can skip this step and go straight to color? Anyways I am having a tough time keeping the proper structure on the upper left leg in terms of its foreshortening. Can anyone give me a suggestion?

#87

I’m back… but not very good this morning… need more work… or to change of model… or to change my hands :scream: hahaha

#88

Hey, Vidar3d, good to see you back! :slight_smile:

BTW, I don’t know if you saw my review of your last piece, but check it out when you get the chance. :wink:

You have a great start on your new piece ~ I think with respect to the upper left leg, cease to think of it as a leg for a moment, and just look at the reference image, and see that area as a shape. I think you will find it to be more of a steak~like shape than a cylindrical shape as your brain wants to force you to think of it as. I think the toughest thing to override sometimes when drawing is the idea we have of what something should look like ~ often this keeps us from really looking at the thing we are drawing. Try to see the various shapes of the body as just that ~ shapes. It will help to simplify things. :slight_smile:

Lemog,

Great to see you here! :bounce: But, I thought you had to do a portrait? I guess all of my begging finally paid off! :scream:

It’s a really good start, and if you have time to work on this, I’m more than sure you can refine it to Lemoggian satisfaction! :thumbsup: Hope to see an update my friend! :slight_smile:

Cheers, :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#89

Girls are always stronger than me… :scream: (I will start the portrait tomorow… :))

I will try… not a good feeling with this one, curiously… the one I choose for the “15mn thread” inspire me more… to follow then…

#90

Originally posted by Lemog: Girls are always stronger than me… :scream: (I will start the portrait tomorow… :))

Yes! Influence! :scream: :thumbsup:

I will try… not a good feeling with this one, curiously… the one I choose for the “15mn thread” inspire me more… to follow then…

Ooh, why not work on that one then? :arteest:

Cheers, :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#91

mmh… I’m not really patient… that is done… is done… :scream:

Latest test to continue this one… but I take my decision… I change for an another one… I don’t want to rest on a presonal failure :smiley: haha…

When I see the incredible work of Mr Audit… that give me the envy to try to be a little better… :twisted: certainly try the model number “3”… (very resting for me… :scream:… don’t know why…)

Just for laughing… ->

Hypothese about my reject : “I cannot remove my finger, it must be wedged in the hole of the bath-tub…” :scream:

#92

mmh… I’m not really patient… that is done… is done… :scream:

I totally understand! I have a million unfinished pieces now, thanks to the Sketchathon! :scream:

Latest test to continue this one… but I take my decision… I change for an another one… I don’t want to rest on a presonal failure :smiley: haha…

Har, personal failure…:rolleyes: :scream:

When I see the incredible work of Mr Audit… that give me the envy to try to be a little better… :twisted: certainly try the model number “3”… (very resting for me… :scream:… don’t know why…)

Go for it Lemoggie! :bounce:

Just for laughing… ->

Not just for laughing…your work always has a unique sensibility…this one is very luminous…look forward to seeing your next piece! :bounce:

Cheers, :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#93

my software does not support selection gripping and moving not to mention feathering so I got myself into trouble.

raises arms into the nightsky

"Universe! Deliver a PainterIX license immediately! "

I realized that her back was a bit to small, too and had to readjust that. Right Leg a little bit longer, hand and arm redone, some value work, but all in all I am still trying to get the shape right before I dive into refining the appearance…

#94

Hello everyone
My 15 min gesture sketch for figure drawing workshop 008.
Used the peanut method my teacher Burne Hogarth used.
Works great for figures that have foreshortening in them.
He used to say if you mastered the peanut you could master
any figure pose that confronts you. And he was right as usual.
Anyway method is to do peanut, then legs and feet, followed by
clavicles and arms and hands and last but not least, the neck, the head
and face. In that order. Used soft glazing brush Painter 8 total time 10 minutes.
Take care
Glenn

#95

Hi
Vidar 3d
Nice start so far, I think the problem your haveing with the upper thigh forshortining
has to do with the knee extending too far forward. If you look at photo, the whole
thigh is contained within the lower peanut shape, and barely overlappes it’s outter
line. Also the line created by the tendon behind the knee, should aim toward it’s
destination, which is located more toward the lower half of the thigh, and ends up
at lower center of middle hip. Devide the thigh into top, middle, and lower muscle
mass, and make sure their lines, or formes coverge at their proper destinations, and
you should be fine. Keep in mind, that the two butt muscles are behind the center
convergeing point in middle of hip, and along upper crest of hip. Study the peanut
shape, everything is held within it, and or extendes from it. Neat trick I learned from
a master of forshortining. Anyway, I hope this is of some help to you. Oh , the peanut
shape I’m talking about is in my wip in this forum, for the same model pose that your
working on.
Well good luck :thumbsup:
Take Care
Glenn

#96

There is my participation for this workshop 008… I think it’s not perfect… but better than the yesterday one :scream:

#97

Lemog,

In honor of this beautiful work…I will use the French spelling…Woaw!!! :bounce:So impressive, almost photographic in the area of the face / hands, yet with a painterly feeling ~ great work so far!!! :bounce:

Cheers, :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#98

Thanks Beckie…

…I think like you than head and hands are better now… and I know why…
I discover something new for me… usually… I draw the shape very quickly… not very very precisely… and always with very thin lines… which disappear very early… and in this case, I draw mor precisely in first, and with strong and large lines…

…I start the pic by the left… and of course, the right part appear better I think.

More work is needed for the hands… always a little flat… but usually… I’m very bad with hands…

A close up of the head…

#99

mmmh… “Woaw” is not a french word… rather prehistoric, not ? or maybe it’s the same thing :scream: :thumbsup:

#100

Thanks for the closeup, Lemog! :thumbsup: Very beautiful…I think the gesture is almost perfect, the original pose is very relaxed and inspiring I think to artists here…I like the head and heads best, but you have really gotten the overall gesture and relaxation of the pose perfectly…the only thing I see needing more work are the breasts (more modeling perhaps is needed) and the waist, which needs a little smoothing ~ apart from that, I think this piece is nearly finished! :slight_smile:

Cheers, :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak