Month: February 2023
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Not exactly Gil Elvgren
This week’s Love Life Drawing study group task was to find an unfamiliar style of reference, something that uses edges in a way you haven’t tried, and attempt to replicate it. I chose a work from one of the pin-up art books I’ve been collecting recently. In this case, Shell Game by one of the…
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Study group – edges 3
The Love Life Drawing study group exercise of the week addresses using different kinds of lines to communicate different edges in a figure. Honestly, I didn’t exactly nail this task. I think my figures look pretty good — all that drilling on figure drawing fundamentals has been paying off. But in terms of the line…
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Sensuality
This is a portrait of Aftyn Rose, focused on her beautiful breasts, as a capstone to my 100 sets of boobs challenge. It took me longer than expected or usual. I make no apologies for that. It was vital to me I get this one right. Not perfect, as I initially thought my goal to…
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Study group – edges 2
This week the Love Life Drawing study group assignment was to make a variety of kinds of edges. Combinations of fine and wide lines, hard and soft edges, high and low contrast. On the left side, I sketched some more simplified rib cage volumes. On the right side, I tried my hand at replicating the…
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Study group – edges 1
This week, we begin a new unit in the Love Life Drawing study group, focusing on lines and edges. In the first half of the exercise, we were to pick 3 references from artists we admire and examine how they use edges and lines in the composition. In Bill Sienkiewicz’s portrait of Bruce Lee, above,…
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Boobs challenge 10
This is the 10th and last group sheet for my 100 sets of boobs challenge. I switched to pencil shading on this one. I’m not in love with the quality of my rendering. It’s not terrible, but I’d like to get it smoother. I am pretty happy with how well the drawings represent the references,…
