[image_with_animation image_url=”9505″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] This is the fifth part of a multi day series, sharing work by my beginning figure drawing classes. Many of these students have never taken a drawing class before, nearly all of them are new to figure drawing. Rather than learning one style, we study a different approach every session. We’ve done straight line measures, site sizing, envelopes, kites, mass shapes, shadows, gestures, contours, volume, cross-hatching, and more.
Today’s drawings are studies of mass, volume, and weight. Artists were encouraged to show that the figure is round, or heavy. These have an impressive sculptural look to them. You can see a few indications of some quick straight line measures to sketch out the proportions before going diving in to the volume.
Every quarter I teach figure drawing on Sundays. No class is ever the same, which means that every artist gets to experience different ways to approach the figure. Each comes with a specific challenge that teaches a skill, and I hold the artists to that challenge, but individual styles are celebrated, as you’ll see in …
It’s going to be a gorgeous weekend. I’d like to take my Cityscapes workshop on a field trip. Do you know a good spot for urban sketching on the North end? Below are some cityscapes by people. Enjoy! ” load_in_animation=”none Two more spots in my Cityscapes Workshop THIS WEEKEND May 11/12. Ice cream shops are urban, right?
It is Day 19 of this 30 Day Creative Challenge. Honestly, the responses from yesterday’s “minimal lines” suggestion are so fun, I just want to keep doing that over and over! But I promised every day would be different, and today is vocabulary word day. Today, create something in response to the word juxtapose. JUXTAPOSE …
There are at least 9 portraits made of the Postman Joseph Roulin, and 17 of his family. The Postman became one of his Van Gogh’s favorite sitters in the French town of Arles. Van Gogh wrote to his brother about him: “I am now at work with another model, a postman in a blue uniform, …
Beginner’s Drawings That’ll Knock Your Socks Off (Part 5)
[image_with_animation image_url=”9505″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] This is the fifth part of a multi day series, sharing work by my beginning figure drawing classes. Many of these students have never taken a drawing class before, nearly all of them are new to figure drawing. Rather than learning one style, we study a different approach every session. We’ve done straight line measures, site sizing, envelopes, kites, mass shapes, shadows, gestures, contours, volume, cross-hatching, and more.
Today’s drawings are studies of mass, volume, and weight. Artists were encouraged to show that the figure is round, or heavy. These have an impressive sculptural look to them. You can see a few indications of some quick straight line measures to sketch out the proportions before going diving in to the volume.
Enjoy.
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It’s going to be a gorgeous weekend. I’d like to take my Cityscapes workshop on a field trip. Do you know a good spot for urban sketching on the North end? Below are some cityscapes by people. Enjoy! ” load_in_animation=”none Two more spots in my Cityscapes Workshop THIS WEEKEND May 11/12. Ice cream shops are urban, right?
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