Charcoal Study

Here is a 30 minute charcoal study that I did last night. Sorry about the quality of the 4th shot.

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What's with that paper anyhow? Maybe I am drawing on the wrong side: all those vertical lines... Sorry... I'm just on the 'art' drug lately... I'm fiendin' for a fix!

Sketchbook Progress

Sketchbook Stuff

Here is a drawing I did in class this week. A guy was coming around asking if I wanted to borrow a large sheet of paper as I was drawing happily in my sketchbook. I guess he thought I looked needy with my little sketchbook.

I am beginning some more anatomy studies.

structure

I'm considering drawing such gestures as these last ones(exclusively) until I can turn them into something worthy. I don't know if that's the massochistic side of me? It could lake some time. Right now they are pretty feeble. Some of the last ones were copied from the Loomis book: Figure Drawing FAIW.

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!