Construction and pelvis studies

Construction and pelvis studies

Pelvis

These studies were fun to do. I think next time if I use washe to darken, I will embhasize the forms as opposed to the negative space. I think it would present better with the text notes.

Sketching from the SoFA X

Sketching from the SoFA IX

Sketching from the SoFA IIX

Here were some suggestions from a friend Chris Solarski:

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"These pencil/drawings drawings I prefer to your marker drawings, without being able to describe why. They have more 'life' to them, whether that means anything to you!

I especially like the first and last drawings, in which you've captured an individual character and, it seems, done something more than just copy the model.

To push your drawings a little further I'd suggest thinking more about how you use light and shadow to describe form. You have done this to some extent. However, in the case of the last drawing, if you'd visualised the face as a simple cube and decided the light is coming from the viewers left, this would reinforce the feeling of form by establishing the side of her face as being in light and the front, in shadow.

I'd also recommend making more use of construction lines.
Great progress!"

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Thanks CAS. I think I need to be in touch with making intelligent choices with light and shade as a tool rather than as a strict effect of nature, so that I can in choosing manupulate the form. It is a language that can tell one story or another with the very same form.

I think that I will try to use construction lines. All good suggestions!

Thanks again!

Vermeer Academy Drawings

Sketching from the SoFA VII

Now, to put the markers down for a bit, here are some drawings.

I did this a few weeks ago.
I loved drawing this model, and her pose.
She had a very interesting face.

Next is a series of gestures.

3min. study

10min. study

15min. study

15min. study

Sketching from the SoFA VI

Here are some updates of what I've been playing with lately:

This is a marker sketch I did about a month ago.

Here is one I did in class about a week after the last.

Here is another. I think I like this last one.