Month: January 2023
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Study group – torso 4
More gesture drawings for this week’s Love Life Drawing study group exercise. I’m happier with these results than the last one. They are decidedly more gestural, focusing on the flow over detail, informed by just a bit of anatomical features. The poses show some interesting bending, particularly on the middle figure, which wasn’t easy to…
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Fancy new MacBook Pro
After several years living in the Windows side of the world, I have switched back to the Mac, having gotten one of the new 14″ MacBook Pro M2 models. I am quite pleased with it! Apple has stopped chasing slimness as the one and only goal and have made a nimble, quiet, and fast machine…
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Boobs challenge 9
Page 9 of my boobs challenge series. A bunch of interesting challenges here again. The sketches are getting a little easier now, and this set I think the clothing details work a lot better than on prior sets. As I drew, a line Kenzo said kept popping into my head: “Look for excuses to show…
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Study group – torso 3
This week in the Love Life Drawing study group, the exercise is to use shading to indicate anatomical features on some gesture drawings. I would say that by and large I did not succeed at that. That guy in the bottom right has some good midriff area, and calling out those little divots above the…
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Boobs challenge 8
Can you believe we’re already up to the eighth set of these? So many wonderful boobs on so many incredible women. I just want to say again to the ladies, thank you for being so incredible and so open. I think this is probably my best set of the series to date. I’m particularly captivated…
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Boobs challenge 7
Another sheet full of glorious ladies, back in the basic sketch style. I feel like I’m improving at the construction aspect of these. Each drawing starts with an anatomical anchor point, either the rib cage or clavicles, and builds outward from there. It’s the mechanism you use in learning to develop the skill to draw…
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Boobs challenge 6
The challenge continues! In part 6 of 10, I went for a more fully painted rendering style. Do I like it? Um, it’s complicated. Some of these look quite good — I’m particularly happy with the fabric folds in the dress on the lady in the middle. But I also found myself getting restless with…
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Boobs challenge 5
We’ve reached the halfway mark on the challenge to draw 100 sets of boobs. I had said on the previous post that I was going to change styles for the next set, but then I didn’t wind up with anything in mind when the time came, so I fell back to ink and contours. I…
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Study group – torso 2
This week started with a couple corrections and additions to my torso diagram. We’ve added in the lats (lattisumus dorsi) and erector spinae muscles down the spine. Along with the shoulder musculature, that completes the simplified torso model we’re learning. I don’t exactly feel like I’ve got any of this mastered, but that’s why we…
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Boobs challenge 4
This is the fourth entry in my challenge to draw 100 sets of boobs, this time switching to ink shading. And I have to say, I am quite pleased with the quality of the rendering on these. And I think I’ve done an admirable job representing the subjects. I think this is probably my favorite…
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Boobs challenge 3
This is the third sheet in my series of boob and torso drawings. I feel like this was a solid set, featuring some very awesome ladies. Nothing feels out of proportion, shading is getting pretty good. Detail where it matters, and less so where it doesn’t. The best part is the lady at the bottom…
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Boobs challenge 2
Another sheet of women’s torsos, as I continue my 100 sets of boobs challenge. I feel like I hit a stride on this set — nothing is jumping out at me as wrong. I am beginning to feel more confident with the forms involved, soft and malleable as they may be. It is challenging to…
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Boobs challenge 1
I keep running into these social media art challenges, like the 100 head challenge, and recently I completed 100 rib cages as part of the Love Life Drawing beginner figure study course. I decided that to reward myself for completing the course, I would do my own challenge — 100 sets of boobs. I love…
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Study group – torso 1
This month, the Love Life Drawing study group turns its attention to the torso. As usual with the anatomy months, we begin with a diagram. This one lays out a simplified version of the primary bones and musculature that make up the surface-visible features. Most of them, anyway. I got a little creative with the…
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Using measurement to improve figure studies
Exercise 9 of the Love Life Drawing beginner figure drawing study asks us to use measurement techniques to improve on the stick figures I was doing before. I have had a lot of trouble applying the standard art measurement tricks in my digital work. Getting a solid measurement on the iPad without accidentally brushing my…
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Mountain test
Another discovery in my newly organized media directory, I don’t even remember when I did this sketch of a mountain range as a test of ink shading and texturing. It was probably just before doing the Strange Days piece. I remember I got inspired to try by watching one of Alphonso Dunn’s videos. Probably this…
