Month: June 2023
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Study group – weight and balance 4
Another large set of figures for this week’s Love Life Drawing study group as we continue with week 4 of the weight and balance unit. This week we turn our attention to figures more at rest than the dynamic one of the last few weeks. I apologize I am once again unable to share the…
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Study group – weight and balance 3
The Love Life Drawing weight and balance month went a little astray from the topic this week, I think, by focusing on capturing actions and gestural curves. Maybe next week will bring it back together. I’m pretty happy with these figures, though. They don’t have quite the flow of gestural masters, but I think each…
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Study group – weight and balance 2
This week the Love Life Drawing study group returns to the figure studies from last week, adding in a sense of “draw the verb” energy to the drawings. Does that sound vague to you? It felt that way to me! The instructions suggest we’re bringing together gesture, anatomy, and form with a big dose of…
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Study group – weight and balance 1
The Love Life Drawing study group this month is tackling questions of representing weight and balance. Kenzo posted a video some time ago talking about how to find the line of gravity on a figure, and that’s the starting point for the week’s exercises. In the drawings above, the left column of figures are drawn…
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Color notes
I have been watching a bunch of Marco Bucci painting lesson videos, particularly his 10 Minutes to Better Painting series. The episode about color notes was particularly inspiring, and then the exercise proposed in this video gave me the impetus to try it out. Additional stylistic input from the apple tutorial contributes to a very…
