Month: May 2022
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Dynamic poses, part 4
Figure study work continues apace. I did more of these as sketches this week than paintings. I’m working on trying to express different values with simple ink marks. You can see a few different techniques at work in this piece. Most of it is decent, although I don’t think I communicated the lighting on his…
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Michelle Yeoh
Digital portrait of actress Michelle Yeoh, from a publicity still for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Yeoh is riding high right now on the wave of positive buzz from her latest project, the reportedly wonderful Everything, Everywhere, All at Once. I look forward to seeing that one. Yeoh is a wonderful actor who lends gravity to…
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Dynamic poses, part 3
More pose and style practice this week. This one had an intriguing feel, with those fine outlines. Something about the scratchy boundaries around shadows really appeals to me.
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Dynamic poses, part 2
Another week of figure studies from the Love Life Drawing dynamic set. I feel like I’m making some improvements. I continue to experiment with painting and sketching styles as I work through these. I have found that I like the pictures more as I refine the number of values I choose for light and shadow.…
