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 this collection.
Most of the drawings below were made by artists who are new to figure drawing, and all were made with the collaboration of live models online. Impressive work!
Drawings by: Carol Jackson, Emma Howard, Emma Nadolny, Pam Carraway, Grace VanNoy, Joe White, Hilary Wething, Emily Howatt, James Pedersen, Rita Parks, Teri Howatt, Suchin Gururangan, Linda Mendez, Georgia Ward-Collings, Emily Johnson, Lyall Wallerstedt, Karl Dyer, Sheryl Feldman, Jade Chowning, Jeanne Chowning, Karen Guo, Holly Gleser.
Gottfried Bammes
Figure drawing I and figure drawing II series’ for fall will be borrowing from Gottfried Bammes, the master of proportion and simplified structures. Exercises include planes, cross contours, mass, proportions, simplified plans, and more. If you’ve ever wanted to learn to draw the figure, but were nervous to try, this class is for you!
Fridays are comic day for our 30 day challenge, and today your challenge is to show a progression. People who draw and paint often feel like everything they make needs to be completely different and original to what they made before. This isn’t true for paintings, and it’s definitely not true for comics, in which …
[image_with_animation image_url=”7183″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] I’ve been making more monotypes. I can’t seem to put them down. The exciting discovery of what comes out of the press is as neurologically rewarding as opening wrapped presents. Better maybe. The invitation of the ghosted plate, cold blankness eliminated, grey tones and shapes invite me to create …
From the Latin (via Italian) fumare (“to smoke”), sfumato describes a painting technique with no harsh outlines. Areas blend into one another through tiny brushstrokes, which makes a hazy, atmospheric depiction of light and color. An early example of sfumato can be seen in Leonardo’s Mona Lisa. A more modern example is in Y.Z. Kami’s giant meditative portraits. Pronunciation: sfoo·mah·toe ” img_size=”full Xandy Peters : Sfumato …
“This has to stop. This has gone on for hundreds of years and it has to stop,” Pastor Kenneth Isabell said in his opening prayer at the third anniversary of Charleena Lyles’ murder June 19, 2020. Three years ago, Seattle police Officers Steven McNew and Jason Anderson shot Lyles seven times after she called 911 …
Figure Drawings from Summer 2020
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 this collection.
Most of the drawings below were made by artists who are new to figure drawing, and all were made with the collaboration of live models online. Impressive work!
Drawings by: Carol Jackson, Emma Howard, Emma Nadolny, Pam Carraway, Grace VanNoy, Joe White, Hilary Wething, Emily Howatt, James Pedersen, Rita Parks, Teri Howatt, Suchin Gururangan, Linda Mendez, Georgia Ward-Collings, Emily Johnson, Lyall Wallerstedt, Karl Dyer, Sheryl Feldman, Jade Chowning, Jeanne Chowning, Karen Guo, Holly Gleser.
Figure drawing I and figure drawing II series’ for fall will be borrowing from Gottfried Bammes, the master of proportion and simplified structures. Exercises include planes, cross contours, mass, proportions, simplified plans, and more. If you’ve ever wanted to learn to draw the figure, but were nervous to try, this class is for you!
Click here: Figure Drawing Classes at the League
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