Hey all,
Sorry for lack of updates. I moved to Sydney for a new job 2 months ago and haven’t been able to post anything. But i’ve been pretty busy drawing and I also started life drawing sessions. I must say I love it, it’s such a great exercise.
First two are the life drawings and rest is a bunch of stuff from imagination or photoref.
Hope you like them.
Cheers
Recent life drawings and some from video reference.
Col erase pencils, i love them!
[img]http://www.greg-naud.com/blog/wp-content/gallery/sketches/sketch168.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.greg-naud.com/blog/wp-content/gallery/sketches/sketch167.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.greg-naud.com/blog/wp-content/gallery/sketches/sketch166.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.greg-naud.com/blog/wp-content/gallery/life-drawing/sketch165.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.greg-naud.com/blog/wp-content/gallery/sketches/sketch164.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.greg-naud.com/blog/wp-content/gallery/life-drawing/sketch163.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.greg-naud.com/blog/wp-content/gallery/life-drawing/sketch162.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.greg-naud.com/blog/wp-content/gallery/life-drawing/sketch161.jpg[/img]The lighting on that portrait is pretty good.
I like the poses those models do in your life drawing sessions.
It must be great to draw knowing the model wants to challenge him/herself as well…
Thanks Johan !
Indeed those models are really cool. Always coming with new inspiring poses every session .
Here’s a digital value study I did at home after scanning one of my sketches. Lighting was done more or less from memories and marks I had on my sketch.
As it’s been raining all day , here are more updates.
Some master studies and 1 from imagination.
Cheers
Raining all day? wow you must be from a different part of the world than I am… This time of year is is snow snow and more snow.
I love your easy fluid style to sketching. I hope to someday gain that confidence in my stroke. I also loved the simian painting you posted on Christmas. Do you plan to take that one any further?
From a scanned drawing from imagination.
I used tips and tutorial from the great Linda Bergvist. http://www.furiae.com/index.php?view=gallery
I will try to make a color version for this one.
Let me know what you think.
Wow the first one in this last batch is really REALLY beautiful!
(Man I miss life drawing class!)
so what’s your opinion on the vine charcoal sticks?
pretty challenging medium, no?
Thanks Johan!
I really like the smooth texture of Charcoal. Marks are so dark that you have to think before putting the vine down. I quite enjoy it, but it’s a challenging medium indeed. I planned on making some studies from photo refs to see how it goes if I get a little more time.
In the meantime here’s a study done on tablet pc. Photo ref from Mjranum-stock on Deviant art.
http://mjranum-stock.deviantart.com/gallery/1854574#/d1vrthq
I recently subscribed to DrawingForce website, by Mike Mattesi.
After watching the great videos I tried to apply the concepts of force and forceful shapes to some studies from photo reference.
I used images from the great photo website 1x.com, artist is asit and some other that I forgot to write down.
great variety in the SB. thanks for posting! I love your caricature work. Tried to get into it last summer, but that didn’t go anywhere. nice to your progress.
Thanks a lot Victor 
It’s been long time I didn’t do any proper caricature work. I should get back to it.
Various studies from photo refs and a life drawing:
Marcus J Ranum : http://mjranum.deviantart.com/
Zhaoming Wu
William Maughan
