Sketchbook Thread of AndyO - 2D/3D

#61

Rebeccak: Thanks for the advice. I’d figured her right calf was a bit short; but once i’d lengthened that, both the right thigh and left leg looked disproportionate and I could see how it was all a bit out - always more to work on! Hadn’t spotted the hand either.

NR43: I think you really hit the nail on the head:

try to really REALLY set your mind to “expecting zero quality mode” before drawing.

I have to agree, that feeling of freedom to just start getting marks on the page and build up an idea is distracted by the nagging voice saying that each drawing has to be perfect…

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Updated proportions:

#62

some nice work here!

Gord

#63

Gord: Cheers for stopping by!

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Another week, another life drawing class. This first sheet are my warm up sketches; I thought i’d try and be a bit more spontanious and not quite so measured with my mark making this time. Each pose was about 7 minutes, for the left and central figures I used chalk, and for the one on the right oil pastel:

This last pose was about 45 minutes, using chalks - hip/thigh areas look a little big in retrospect:

Andy

#64

Good to see your new sketches! I cannot recommend enough doing charcoal master copies from drawings by artists like Rubens and Michelangelo, I think it will help enormously when you go to draw from the live figure. :slight_smile:

#65

Three more master’s studies, all using pencil - details for each are on the drawings:

#66

It’s been a while since I really posted anything here; should really get back on track… I’ve still been attnding my life drawing class. We have less than ten weeks to go now - I’m starting to wonder where all the time went!

Here are a couple of sketches from two weeks ago - both took about an hour, using coloured chalks on a mid-tone paper:

#67

…and from this weeks class; the first page has two 30 minute sketches on it, the second was longer (about an hour) - again using chalks on a mid-tone paper:

Andy

#68

I thought i’d post my preliminary sketches for this weeks character-a-fortnight challenge here. This pair on the first page were drawn from photographs, while the character on the second page is from my imagination:

This final sketch of an athlete is unrelated, and took me about an hour (again from a photo):

Cheers for looking in,
Andy

#69

A couple of sketches from this weeks life drawing class; the first is coloured chalk on a mid-tone paper and took about an hour, while for the second I used white/black/light blue and took about 45 minutes.

Proportions and stuff are a little off, particularly on the first sketch, but i’m pleased with the amount of ground I covered in the timeframe to make the drawings look a bit more ‘completed’

Cheers,
Andy

#70

Just the one piece of work from my life drawing class this week. We had a different tutor this time around; it was good to get a different insight and a fresh pair of eyes on our work.

This drawing is a combination of chalk and charcoal on white paper, and took about two hours:

#71

So jealous of your life classes Andy!

But I will get my share in about 12-15 months time :slight_smile:
(at least 2 years long, 4y if I choose so and this 2 long sessions per week)

The last one is really nice
Be careful not to use too much white… a subtile white does the trick :wink:

#72

NR43: Thanks for your comment; I’m really happy with that last one - although the picture doesn’t quite do it justice.

That two year, two sessions a week (even if it is still a way on the horizen) is a fantastic opportunity! I’ve done several shorter courses before - 6-12 weeks - and you only get so far. Having been on my current course since last September I can say that having regular, consistant instruction helps no end; both you and the tutors put more into it, and as a result you get much more out of it!

Andy

#73

It’s been a while, so here’s three weeks worth of life drawing to catch up on. The first pair took approximatley 30 minutes each - this session I really struggled to get anything decent down; we all have off day’s I guess!

#74

After countless weeks using a variety of media in these sessions - chalks, charcoal, paints …etc - I thought that I’d return to the humble pencil again. I’m pleased with the results; I’d forgotten how long it takes (me, anyway) to cover such large areas. We tend to use A1 sheets, although these drawings could easily be cropped to half that:

(approx 1 hour)

(approx 45 minutes)

#75

This pair are from the most recent class.

I’d seen a chalk figure study earlier in the week by Toulouse-Lautrec, and was quite impressed by the simplicity and looseness with which he’d drawn the figure, and how effective it was! I thought i’d have a go - we did a series of four minute warm-up sketches and this is the best of the bunch:

We also did a longer study (about an hour and a half); for which I returned to using pencils, as I had the week before:

Thanks for stopping by,
Andy

#76

This drawing came out of a life drawing session about 6-8 weeks ago, and was great fun to do. I’ve just got around to photographing it and thought that I would share. It’s on an oversized piece of cartridge paper (about four times the size of A1); was made using black ink and white chalk, with the ink applied using a long piece of bamboo. I can’t quite remember how long it took to complete - perhaps half an hour or so.

Cheers,
Andy

#77

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