Tag: nude
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Make some noise for soft tummies
Welcome back to the amazing rosie_rosie_rosie in the pose (and sentiment) that brought her to my attention in the first place. To be clear, the title of this post came from her. What can I say about this wonderful figure? She’s obviously a gorgeous lady. But even more than that, my eye was drawn to…
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Denim dreams
Please welcome Reddit user rosie_rosie_rosie to the site! She is a beautiful young woman who was happy to aid my journey of learning by agreeing to be a subject here. This first work is a study in revelation, showing off her gorgeous figure behind a shroud of denim. I’d like to do more work with…
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Smack!
A tasty little drawing of a very cheeky lady having fun with a ruler. Color blends in pastel continue to be hard, but I like the results. Fabric folds I’m less happy about, but are at least serviceable. Let’s talk about artistic vision. Many artists are adept at seeing the work well before it is…
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Ahegao
Another portrait of Aftyn Rose, this time focused on her “ahegao” face. It’s something she does often, but I have barely tried to represent. I’m not entirely sure what she’s expressing when she does it. For me, it sits at the intersection of silly, playful, and sexy that Aftyn herself exemplifies. The face is referenced…
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Seductive textures
I have a sexy new model! She has a flair for seductive poses and an affinity for textures. Representing those textures and the light in monochrome was quite a challenge, but I think these all turned out pretty good. Folds in fabric are a real challenge, but I’ve been studying up on them, and am…
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Aftyn figure studies 3
I had a confidence setback recently in my art skills, and wanted to salve that hurt by going back to some drawings of my favorite subject, Aftyn Rose. These are five figure studies rendered as nudes from a variety of non-nude sources. The bottom two drawings, sourced from one of my favorite videos, I did…
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Thoughts on the Aftyn Center posts
I finally finished and posted the whole Aftyn Center story. It’s been a real journey! When I started drawing as a teenager, comic books were my guiding light. It was a dream to draw my own stories. Obviously in this case I didn’t do anything as bold as drawing it as a comic, but putting…
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Aftyn center, part 3
The ghost girl rushes from room to room, looking in panic for a way to stop what’s going on. She no longer has lungs, but still her breath comes in ragged gasps. “What can I do?” she cries. “They’ll kill him! Or worse!” She passes through walls like they were curtains.
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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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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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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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Study group – hips & glutes 4
This week we extend our learning of hips & glutes anatomy to anchor some figure drawings. I’m generally pretty happy with the results, even if the shading gives them all a kind of metallic look. I don’t fully have the swing of terminator lines yet, but they’re not terrible. What I’m happy with is my…
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Study group – hips & glutes 3
In the Love Life Drawing study group, we are now ready for the actual anatomy of hips and thighs, albeit a little bit simplified. I think these are some of the best bones I’ve drawn, and probably the best diagram overall. It’s fascinating to me the impact fat has on this area, and the way…
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Study group – hips and glutes 2
LLD study group hips and thighs month, part 2, looking at the front of the figure. This one got pretty concrete about the orientation of the pelvis, something I was pretty weak on before. It also started with those same tapered cylinders for the thighs (AKA conic sections), but then he gave a slightly more…
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Study group – hips and glutes 1
New month, new challenge in the Love Life Drawing study group: hips, thighs, and glutes. This is an anatomy topic, but rather than getting into the technical aspects of the bones and muscles, we’re starting with basic, simplified forms. The drawings are anchored around the the little triangle formed by the hip bones and butt…
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Drawings from imagination
Practicing some figure work from imagination. These poses are not copied from anything, they’re just me trying to come up with what people look like. Usually when I try this, I make terrible things — stiff and unbelievable. For the most part, I’d say these are not bad. The shadows are shaky, particularly on the…
