Sketchbook Thread of Cynical_Saint

#21

You’re welcome - I would encourage anyone to do as many master copies as possible, they’re fantastic learning exercises throughout one’s career. Hope to see more of them. :slight_smile:

#22

So for the last couple of weeks in my Figure Drawing class, we have been working with a skeleton. This is mostly due to lack of funding for enough models.

I have found that I have much less trouble with skeletons. As I have said before, my main goal is to learn to draw “perfect” proportion and shaping. Secondary goal is to get better with texture/shading. With skeletons, it is much easier to determine the positions of key points, because there are some many more details to look at and compare. With a face, skin kind of smooths out all of the details, so I have trouble getting every feature to look right and proportional.

However with this new subject, I ran into the same problem I have before. This teacher refuses to stick with one thing at a time. We were required to complete four drawings. Two of them are full skeleton, and two are closeups. Problem is, she didn’t stop there. She required us to do heightened drawing in conté for two of them, and two drawings in pencil with inkwash over the top. I would have prefered to just concentrate on drawing skeletons, and not struggling with media.

Now in the case of all four drawings, I felt fairly good about my initial drawing, but adding media that I am not confident with on top of it, the final results were disappointing for me.

Anyway, I finished the four drawings early, so the last day I worked on just a sketch of a skull. No ruining it by putting ink or conté on top.

Comments/critiques are welcome as always.

This is my 3rd skull ever, done in graphite with charcoal for shading.

EDIT: Slight sharpening done in Photoshop.

#23

very well done, i like the one with the black background and white chalk there really nice. Keept it up.

#24

nice work on the self portrait Cynical_Saint
good use of light there

I like your Ingres study too.

Your eye for proportion and values will get better with every drawing you make, so consistency is really the key imho…

Keep studying!

#25

hasse32: Thanks. That is actually my favorite piece thus far, cept the bottom portion of the face is too low and too angled. I really like the white conté on black paper. It seems more logical because instead of adding in ‘the lack of light’ with a dark media, you are adding in light with the white conté. (That made more sense in my head, heh)

NR43: Thanks again. Yeah I really think my eye for proportion is growing fairly well. The main difference I am noticing is that instead of it taking me an hour to get down the initial sketch because of proportion issues, it is only taking me like 30 mins now. Also like I said, drawing skulls which have alot more point to point reference, is much easier than a face where all those points are kind of smoothed over with light reflecting/refracting skin.

#26

Final project time for my Figure drawing class. Think these are actually a decent improvement from when I started, although of course I am never satisfied.

They are all done in life size or larger, and in Charcoal.

Any comments/crits would be appreciated.

Theme: These are all done from photos of me as I grew up (Last one is actually my dad).

None of them look “Exactly” like the photo, which was my goal, but the one of my Father is the closest.





#27

I get feedback from my teacher today, but she has ulterior motives (she can’t be too harsh as she wants to motivate me).

I would love to get some feedback from some of you guys here on the above 5 drawings, opinions I can trust.

Here are the reference shots if it helps:





#28

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