Life drawing session

After a set of initial warm up session we went to a 15m pose, and I decided to go for tonal work this time:

Linking to Egon Schiele

Now, lets try a similar experiment with Egon Schiele, who I have less exposure of. Again, I’ll start by looking at some images:

“Reclining Woman”  from https://www.dorotheum.com/blog/en/egon-schiele-radical-draughtsmen/

An experiment linking to artists

On of the challenges that I have is that of considering artistic style and approach. One challenge my tutor left me with is to:

“Link your work to that of others and make it clear
that this is what you’re doing”

Part 3 Formative feedback

So, lets start by considering one artist whose figurative work I admire – Maggi Hambling. To start, lets examine a number of her figurative drawings that I like:

Portrait of Dr David Brown

Project 2: Landscape

Ex 1: Clouds

Initial sketching

Croquis Cafe Heads Up 2

Worked through this video:

First a series of 2 minute poses..

Struggling with people

Sketch from a photograph from the following article: http://v3.mirrorarts.lk/fashion/item/1923-head-wraps-new-fashion. Some progress, though the angle of the nose and the angle of the face are out of alignment with each other.

Project 5.2: Storyboard

Starting to think through concerns, and play with ideas.

Part 5: Drawing Clothes and Drapery

Whilst starting to consider the drawings needed for the Storyboard and my planned Photomontage I realised that my understanding of the drawing of clothes and drapery was all too weak. I started to research how to approach drawing clothes more effectively.

Life drawing – improving.

An initial 8 minute pose, followed by a demonstration. Then a 25 minute pose. 

Project 3.1:Starting Again

Practice Reflection

I’ve been looking back at my practice sketches from December with a critical eye and my current study of perspective in mind. Issues start to build fairly quickly, although in many ways it is still an improvement on previous work. Possibly the biggest single issue is that the cupboard sketch was supposed to be face on, so the top and bottom of the cupboard facing should be parallel. They aren’t, and in fact they slightly diverge.

Working on a tiger head

Starting to work on the form of a tiger head as part of my cats sketching. The idea is to try to help me get to grips with the basic form, and the key differences between domestic and big cats.

Tablet Sketch

I’ve started trying to use a computer tablet (Wacom Intuous) to do some drawing on my laptop. Initially I am using Inkscape, the basic pen tools for Windows and Krita. Getting used to the way that the pressure sensitive pen works is odd, but it is much better than a mouse.