Sketchbook Thread of Lute

#61

its been a while since i’ve last updated, but like kistu said. long before.when i dont post. im actually doing something. and i have, since wednesday. ive been taking figure drawing classes. so i had stuff to but i need to take a photo of them since they’re 18 by 24. but…today i also went to class,which was cool i learned alot about the shoulder area. Im not sure how… its gonna improve my work. nor how to take the information in I guess by looking at the structure and understand how it is. ?
any tips?

#62

Well today was a toughie, I wasnt sure if i wanted to go to figure drawing class, but i went . and it was good. The guy who posed for us. Geeze louise…he did alot of difficult poses. I was soo close to say “OH HELLLL NO, i cant draw that!”
laughs so here we go
im trying to figure out a method to capture the poses as quickly. im going to try the shapes idea again.

the last pose was 80 minutes. but the guy moved about 3 or 4 times, so the light source kept on changing… grrrrr
oh well … i am learning :slight_smile:

#63

That day, I learned sooo much. It was hard to do from 2 - 15 minute poses. But I tried. At the end of class the teacher pulled me over and wanted to see what i was working on.
Long story short, she was fustrated when she i used shapes to construct the image. She told me (which surprised me) that at this point, i do have a grasp on the human anatomy and i should really draw what i see. I asked her, then why do people construct the body with shapes. She stated that " the usage of shapes is mostly for biggenners to understand the mass and form.
Also, if you continue to use shapes to define things. your not going to be able to see past the true form on the body, arms will always look a cylinders legs would like cubes (etc) in which actually they cary the form of the shapes but…visually its all curves and depressions. She gave me a peice of a verterbrea to take home and told me to draw it. from every possible angle you can take off. Im going to force you to see objects, also dont forget to draw from life as much as you can

i never met a teacher who would literally try to force me into the next step.

but here are the pictures.

#64

Lute,

It’s great to see your figure drawing class work! I think it will do you a world of good, and I am pleased to hear that your teacher is really forcing you to push your skills further. Looking forward to seeing how your pieces develop. :slight_smile:

Cheers,

~Rebeccak

#65

some new stuff

#66

i’ve been working on this picture… and its at the point i dont think i can do anymore with it.

i was told that it looks to tight…and that i should work on gesturing to bring more “flow” into the body and face (sigh) but i did learn about the poroprtion thing , much more throughly
2-5 5 minutes poses in my fiugre drawing class.

#67

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