Thursday, September 8, 2011

Rendering

So we worked on rendering today in Sustained Figure. We were learning the different stages to accomplish a finished look. And for two whole hours, I drew nothing but crap.
Okay, not crap, but not good either.
These were the best.
Then, luckily, he had us only work on the shoulder, because, the way the lighting was set up, it had the only true highlight --- that way, we could work with ALL five of our values.

And for some reason, I had a breakthrough --- the rest of the figure looks all wonky and disproportional --- but look at that shoulder!
 detail:
charcoal (vine and pencil), 18"x24"

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Thursday, September 1, 2011

Figure Drawing

First (of many) sustained figure classes.
We weren't worrying about proportion necessarily, just focusing on shadow areas, cast v. form, hard v. soft, and line quality.





charcoal

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Eskimo

digital

This is done from an sketch I did a while back. Thought I'd try to "finish" it this morning.

Sunday, August 28, 2011

Drawing Workshop

First drawing workshop at Academy of Art during orientation week.







charcoal pencil on newsprint
18"x24"

Thursday, August 18, 2011