Open Figure Drawing Workshop - William Bouguereau Master Copy - with Rebeccak 014

[Rebeccak]

Sounds good! Remember, even if an OFDW closes, you can still post work to a closed OFDW as long as you want. It’s only encouraged that folks move on to the next one once the new one opens.

Cheers,

~Rebeccak

[aggie93]

Spirit - I am really going for the night one. The Nymphs are kinda ghost like. That is turning out neat.:eek:

Rebecca - I am certain that this one may take more than a week. However, I need to fill in the women in the back and everyone’s head. I am not sure I will do a back ground, I normally don’t. But, like you said, threads don’t die.

Here is my lowly update to just bombared this thread with line updates. If your wondering, I covered my flash with a yellow sticky.:shrug:

[Rebeccak]

[left]Nice work, Aggie! Wow, they have transparent yellow stickies?

Cheers,

~Rebeccak
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[aggie93]

[left]Nice work, Aggie! Wow, they have transparent yellow stickies?

Cheers,

~Rebeccak

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Rebec - No, the flash is so bright it reflects off of the graphite in the pencil so I dampen it with paper of some sort. The sticky was handy!

[cypherx]

So I sketched it out with vine charcoal, fixed some things, rubbed out some mistakes (the beauty of vine charcoal) and went over the outline with charcoal pencil. I probably won’t use too much compressed charcoal on this one seeing as how there’s not too many thick dark areas. But will use a lot of my 6b charcoal pencil because there’s a lot of fine details, and I don’t have any larger paper than the one I’m currently working on.

I know I’m not supposed to mix the different types of charcoal, but I do, that’s just how I do things. Charcoal blasphemy, so I’m told. Doing it on an 18x24inch piece of Strathmore drawing paper.

her smudgy face can be rubbed out because its in vine it’s just going to be hard getting the details in the way I would like

[Rebeccak]

cypherx,

Very nice beginning! I don’t see the problem with mixing types of charcoal…call it a mixed media piece, if you like.

If you choose to work in the same way (charcoal on paper) for the next OFDW, you might want to try toned paper and use a white charcoal pencil for highlights. I have a feeling you might also like nupastels, which come in a range of earth or other colors.

Working with nupastels would give you the ability to work in dry media similar to charcoal yet also work in color.

Cheers,

~Rebeccak

[SpiritDreamer]

Hi…Aggie // Davey… THANKS…Trying to get the best from both worlds…light and dark.LOL !!:eek: :bounce:
Like the way you got the yellow and green on that one virsion…gives it a nice warmth…

Hi…Rebecca…:wavey: …and THANK YOU…very inspiring painting…don’t know where i’m
going, or how i’ll get there, but I will have fun along the way.
Hope everything is going great with your workshop class…lot of work, don’t know how you
manage it all, but am sure glad that you do. once again Rebecca…THANKS FOR EVERYTHING:thumbsup:
TAKE CARE
Glenn

[Amerasu]

I finally finished! That took just about forever. I know there are some areas I could refine but I’m happy with it (and also tired of it!). I also skipped the tiny background figures because I wanted to be done.

Thanks for previous comments and feedback

[Amerasu]

I’m not sure how many people are still around to read these comments since the session is almost over but I’ll leave some feedback anyway.

cypherx She’s looking very good in charcoal! I quite like her face. I understand you’re going to rub it over but I think she looks good right now. Nice work so far.

aggie93 Your pic is a little small so it’s hard to see details but I can see you’ve got some good work going on. I especially like the muscle definition on the left nymph, I think it looks very solid. I struggled with her myself!

Spirit Dreamer Nice style as always! Your paintings always flow so well and somehow you take a few smudges and work them into viable figures. I like the detail work you did on the male face a few pages back. Good stuff.

tiago Fantastic stuff for such a short time… and I thought I was fast! It’s too bad you may not be able to finish this as it could look very good. School comes first though

ericyeo Wow! That’s one gorgeous study! I’ve always been impressed with your work for the figure sessions and this one is no exception. The skintones are spectacular. Excellent painting

SoniaNotRed A nice start. More definition and tones would be great. Are you coming back to work on this?

Maladie Looking good so far! I think you’ve done a great job on the water and sand but could do with more muscle and tone definition on the figure. Her skintones are good but she needs more shading and colours in the shadows and muscle areas to make her really stand out. Nice work

SaraD Her face is looking beautiful so far, as is her skin! I look forward to seeing this one completed.

redjesus I really like your initial sketch. I start that way with paintings too and then fill them in as I go. One things that really struck me with your painting is that you need more variation in skin tone colour. The figure on the right should be significantly lighter than the others. I know you’re still at the beginning anyway so maybe this is to be addressed Good work so far!

Matellis I love the originality! She rocks Individuality aside, nice work on the painting - especially the water and sand. Nice attention to detail. It looks almost real.

Gord I can’t say much since you’re at the very beginning but tones are looking good so far

Kwyjibo A good start with the black and white tones so far. I’ll agree with Rebecca’s advice to work on the blending between tones a little more. Have you tried a low opacity brush setting? That might help you blend more evenly.

pocanman I know what you mean by “should have chosen the other one”! It’s a monster painting. Anyway, nice tone work so far. Are you going to finish this painting?

daWinky Wow! Pretty face Looking great so far and would love to see the rest.

Xillion I really admire the way you paint. I would love to be able to paint so with such a free flow as yours. Nice technique! I hope you finish this one because I think it could be very spectacular. Excellent work!

vnikolov I’m only seeing the arm and hair so far but it looks good!

mindofka Great spin on the painting! Nice work

pushav Wow, big improvement! I’ve always admired your abstract, loose sort of style but you’ve really tightened things up with this painting. She looks good!

Zepyhri A good start and I hope you finish! I’ve seen some of your other work and find it quite inspiring so I hope you come back to this one. A nice, quick start anyway

Pinoy McGee Love that torso focus! Nice work.

I’m going to end commenting here… there’s so many of you! Next time I’ll start the session on time instead of rushing in at the end so I can be more involved.

[cypherx]

Yeah, Rebecca, I would like to eventually play with using white for highlights since I’ve never done that before.

and whoops, I already rubbed the face out, I really felt it didn’t represent her too well before, and hopefully I’ll be able to get it put back in with better results. Otherwise she’ll just have a smudge for a face.

this is my last update for tonight, I’m tired and have work tomorrow. yay

[Rebeccak]

Awww Glenn,

You’re doing more painting on these boards than I am ~ please keep up the awesome work!!!

Amerasu,

WOW, I don’t know whether I’m more impressed with your painting or with the fact that you commented on everyone’s painting! :eek: Well, your painting turned out awesome, and I continue to be AMAZED at how quickly you can paint!!! :eek: I couldn’t believe it earlier when you said you were going to finish today, but then I forgot who I was thinking of.

His legs are the only things that really stand out to me as being a wee bit unfinished. As for the rest, reallllly beautiful work!!! :bounce:

I really hope you’ll submit this to the Finished Gallery ~ great stuff Amerasu, thanks so much for your amazing participation here!!!

cypherx,

Nice work!! I think later on you may want to think about adding emphasis to the apexes of the major curves of the figure for greater emphasis and sense of weight. Really nice progress here!

Cheers,

~Rebeccak

[Amerasu]

Rebecca, thanks for the feedback You’re right, those hairy beast legs need a bit more work and I’ll do that before I submit to the finished gallery. I can also see I’m missing a bit of the girly leg behind him. Poor thing, it’s a wonder she can walk…

[Rebeccak]

LOL I would never have noticed that had you not pointed it out!

Cheers,

~Rebeccak

[cypherx]

ok, now I am really going to bed, she wouldn’t let me sleep without her having a face. Yeah, Rebecca, I’ll see what I can do about giving her more curves as I go
thanks

[SpiritDreamer]

Hi…Amerasu… …

Cypherx // Jennifer …

GREAT JOB on that face…really like the hair also…like your technique so far, think you
should try out the white highlight…might really add volume to the figure.
Keep up the GREAT WORK…

TAKE CARE
Glenn

[cypherx]

Thanks Spirit, though I don’t think white charcoal will help much on this one because I’m not using a toned paper. But for the next one I have time to participate in, perhaps I’ll try pastels (though I’ve never used them) on green or brownish paper.

[Rebeccak]

cypherx,

Nice work on this! Do you plan on drawing the waves as welll?

Cheers,

~Rebeccak

[cypherx]

Figured I would put my cellphone in this shot so you could see the scale I’m working on. This will be my last progress shot before the final, I think I posted enough already blush
I’ve worked in the bg a bit more, and worked on her feet some

edit- Oh yeah, I do plan on doing the waves.

[Rebeccak]

cypherx,

The face looks great! I think bringing the body up to that level without overpowering the viewer will be an interesting challenge. No worries about posting WIPs, that’s what the thread is for.

[aggie93]

Cyph - All I can say is beautiful. Love your work!

Update. As you can tell, I did it, jumped in and did it. I went dark with this, probably ruin it but what the hell. I am tired of just copying. I stayed up until 2 AM, couldn’t leave Allu alone.

Overall and Ms. Allu (gave her red hair and highlights)