Month: August 2023
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Study group – Figure 5 ways 4
Concluding the Love Life Drawing study group’s “Figure 5 ways” month, we have a series of figure drawings that attempt to synthesize all the lessons. I built these figures in phases, using simple forms, gesture, values, and anatomy to piece together a final rendering. Marek drove a fair amount of this month, and he brought…
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Study group – Figure 5 ways 3
Marek, critiquing my effort from the first week suggested my value study would be improved by focusing on the light shapes instead of the shadow shapes. To achieve that, I started with a darker background and just draw light blobs and tried to scrub them into the right shapes. I did that once before to…
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Study group – figure 5 ways 2
Our multi-discipline figure drawing month continues. Last week we did a survey of all 5 approaches to figure drawing — simple forms, gesture, anatomy, values, full figure drawing. This week we’re focusing just on the first two of those, with some review instructional materials examining those skills in detail. Simple forms drawing breaks anatomical elements…
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Check out this butt
Monochrome drawing of Aftyn Rose showing off for her bathroom mirror before a shower. This is a return to an earlier piece I never thought was quite good enough. Because I have been using Aftyn drawings as a way to exercise my anatomical knowledge, I have also opted to remove her shirt. (And, you know,…
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Heads up
I was a little disappointed by the quality of my faces in the study group heads month concentration. The structural foundation is solid, and I’m sure it will help with gesture drawing, but in terms of building to portraits, most of my drawings were unrecognizable, except for the Aftyn ones. I decided to keep practicing…
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Study group – figure 5 ways 1
It’s a new month and a new topic for the Love Life Drawing study group. The new topic: drawing the figure with five different approaches. We have practiced each of these, so this acts as a review, a kind of synthesis, and a way of highlighting if any of the stages needs more work. We…
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Aftyn center, part 2
“All right, girls, listen up!” The room full of young demons snaps to attention, facing their leader, a rather Dangerous looking succubus with blue hair, long, coiled horns, and full, bat-like wings. “We have a level two situation developing top-side. The humans have hired a priest to drive us from our home.”
