Month: September 2022
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Study group – arms 3
Light week. I spent most of the week doing some painting, rather than focus on these exercises. But class rolls on! The goal of the week was to combine some of the learning from anatomy into some gesture studies. So here we’re paying attention to how the bones and musculature contribute to asymmetric curves and…
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Strange Days
Drawing of Angela Basset and Ralph Fiennes in a still from the movie Strange Days. I love the movie, and it’s a surprisingly tender moment. I’m pretty happy with how the picture turned out. I feel like I’m starting to get better control of texture and value with ink shading.
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Study group – arms 2
Beginning a new month introduces two new “of the month” subjects. This month, hippos and a new reference model named Jade. Both I did as value studies, trying to improve my facility with that kind of analysis. I like how the water and reflections turned out despite the simple marks. The above picture is of…
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Stephen McHattie
Loose portrait of actor Stephen McHattie from one of my favorite movies, Pontypool. This drawing really wanted to get away from me. I had to start over several times to get it to any level of quality with different shading styles. It kept not capturing the expression, which still doesn’t read as clearly as the…
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Study group – arms 1
This week we started on arm anatomy, focusing on the 3 main arm bones — the humerus (upper arm, green), the radius (forearm, blue), and ulna (forearm, red). Kenzo gave a little demo of how the joints work and what happens with the forearm bones during supination and pronation. We then had an assignment to…
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Jonathan Banks
Contour portrait of actor Jonathan Banks, one of the stars of Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad. He’s always got a tremendous, world-weary expression that was fun to draw. The contours here are decent — I lost control of them in a few places. But I am improving at making them long, continuous curves. A…
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Study group – values 4
This week, the name of the game is value studies. That is, blocking in the broad shadow and light shapes in the drawing. Shadow and light are how we understand 3D volume in a 2D image, so getting them right has major impact on a picture’s believability. In the first set of exercises, we are…
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Saoirse Ronan
Portrait of Saoirse Ronan, made with ink and a light color wash. The reference image is from the movie Hanna, which I liked quite a bit. It’s not very representative of Ronan’s acting career, but it makes good use of her ability to project innocence.
