Month: November 2022
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Study group – shoulders 4
Figure drawings with an emphasis on shoulders. This one felt like it got out of control. I don’t know. It’s messy. Looking on the bright side, though, my line work has improved — not a lot of erasing on this — and the figures mostly look pretty good. Something went real bad on that third…
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Tolbunt Crested Polish
The animal of the month on Love Life Drawing is a chicken. I asked a friend who raises chickens if she had any favorite pictures. I figured I’d get something cutesy, like a silkie. Instead I got an incredible challenge: the Tolbunt Crested Polish. I think that’s a hen. It’s a pretty vivid bird, and…
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Study group – shoulders 3
Shoulders month continues with us now expanding into some figure drawing, either full figures as with the above set, or bits and pieces as you’ll see below. I’m pretty happy with all of them, to be honest. I feel like I’ve loosened up my line a bit which has allowed me to make more organic…
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Faye Wong revisited
Feeling dragged way down by the side-effects of vaccination this weekend, I decided to revisit an earlier work, rather than make something from scratch. Challenges here were to pick my own colors and to force myself to accept visible brush strokes. Each was a journey. Pushing myself off the color sampling training wheels has been…
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Study group – shoulders 2 (sort of)
I don’t have a post from the study group to show this week. That’s my fault. We had an assignment, trying to identify parts of shoulder anatomy from a series of these photo references. I didn’t freehand the assignment this time; I traced directly on the references. The rights on those photos don’t allow me…
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Let the Right One In
Charcoal portrait of actor Lina Leandersson as Eli in Let the Right One In. To my way of thinking, it’s the best vampire movie ever made. I love that movie so much. If you haven’t seen it, now is the time. And don’t be fooled by the American remake (Let Me In); that thing is…
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Study group – shoulders 1
This month the Love Life Drawing study group begins examining the anatomy of the shoulder, kicking off with some simple diagrams. We did a little live session where Kenzo went over these features. This is simplified to just the things that you will generally be able to see from the outside, and therefore can be…
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Cheers to Sunday
Painting of /u/MakingBeauty from a post titled Cheers to Sunday. This is a digital painting, using a slightly modified version of the default acrylic tool. Vivid, solid colors and some very fun foreshortened limbs going into this portrait made it a challenge. I was not too surprised that even with trying to focus on getting…
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Study group – simple forms 4
Study group work continues with a sheet of poses in 3 figures each. The simple forms poses, using contour lines to show the volumes are on the left in blue (or is that purple?) I’m using the same poses from last week, but I cleaned up the poses some. In particular, that third pose —…
