Month: March 2022
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Christy, part 1
Following that 10 day Fresh Eyes figure drawing class, I wanted to keep going with the practice. Kenzo has posted over 100 reference images of models in carefully chosen poses on the Love Life Drawning community website. I decided I would try to do quick-ish (less than 2 hour) paints of as many as I…
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Tsundere kitten
Portrait of Aftyn Rose role-playing as a tsundere kitten. I painted this with acrylic brushes in Procreate on the iPad. I painted it after the figure drawing class to relax a bit from that push. It was fun to do, and it turned out pretty good. I went for a bit of a looser style,…
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Fresh eyes challenge, part 2
The second week of the Fresh Eyes Challenge took us out of the 2D realm and into the third dimension! Kenzo picked poses designed to emphasize foreshortening and rotations of body parts. In the exercises, we were to mark out the rotations using cross contour lines, the circles around the centers of the forms. I’ve…
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Fresh eyes challenge, part 1
I have just completed the Fresh Eyes Challenge that was run by Kenzo of Love Life Drawing, a 10 day series of lessons in how to get started breaking down the human form to capture gesture-style drawings. Kenzo is an excellent instructor, and I loved doing the course. Am I a pro now? Of course…
