[image_with_animation image_url=”9524″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] This is the sixth and last 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.
These are combinations of quick mass gestures and contour lines. Special attention was put on disappearing or implied lines – lines that are not drawn in, but are suggested by other elements in the drawing. None of the poses were longer than 5 minutes.
Welcome to day 25! Only five more days to go in our 30 Day Creative Challenge! Tuesdays are “See and Respond” days. Today I have the head and feet of a figure drawing by Paul Cezanne. Your job is to fill in the middle. You can use the original drawing below and make a transcription …
[image_with_animation image_url=”7708″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Piet Mondrian, 1908 Did you know Piet Mondrian loved to paint trees? Draw/paint/collage a tree. Draw it from observation, not imagination, preferably from life and not a photograph. This is part 1 of 3. For the next two days we’ll do the same, only different. Add today’s artwork to this …
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Take a class with SAL – anywhere! Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Today I give you artworks that feature the Thanksgiving-ish color orange. My intention was to post a few, but once I started to collect a few, I saw orange in artworks everywhere! As this post grew, my shifting goals for organization and style became increasingly …
Beginner’s Drawings That’ll Knock Your Socks Off (Final)
[image_with_animation image_url=”9524″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] This is the sixth and last 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.
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