CashWiley Posted January 23, 2017 Author Share Posted January 23, 2017 Sketchbook digest a bit slim this week due to classes starting up. Draw every day! This week I got in a new book, Steve Huston's Figure Drawing for Artists. Did some gesture studies, both practice from the book and overlay gestures of master works. Then a page of head construction studies. (NSFW) https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3667682/Scribbles/Sketchbook/2017/Sketchbook43.jpg Only one comic book copy this week, took me two days to finish (4x15 minute breaks). Copy of an Alex Ross concept for Planet Hulk. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CashWiley Posted January 26, 2017 Author Share Posted January 26, 2017 Second stage of the drawing for this semester's portrait class. Fixing proportions, adding some detail, blocking in the shadow shapes. Ready for transfer to canvas before next week's class. Graphite on paper, 14x17. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4tonmantis Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 I see good progress. When you are working from reference you are creating really strong pieces. Are you doing imagination work as well? Be careful working from comic artists.. I learned the hard way that there's more bad habits learned than insight gained on that particular discipline. I've personally found gesture/life drawing infinitely more helpful. Either way, thanks for sharing your art. I'm eager to see your painting progress! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CashWiley Posted January 26, 2017 Author Share Posted January 26, 2017 I do about 95% copy work right now. I don't have the tools to do good original work yet, so I don't bother much with it. Here's a primitive original piece I did last year: https://cashwiley.com/2016/12/24/kings-man/The improvement in my technique from when I started to when I finished only bolstered my opinion that I can wait until my technique catches up to worry about original pieces. Comic copies are just my junk food. I analyze them with my developing trained eye, I find it useful to learn how artists I enjoy interpret anatomy and composition. I don't feel I'm picking up any bad habits from them, and if I am, *shrug* I do work from life when possible, it's how I began my training and I'm lucky enough to have found a world-class painter as a mentor. She gave me an excellent lecture to help me improve my experience in figure drawing class, and hopefully I'll get some time with her this weekend doing some figure study using a model she's got set up for her current painting in her studio... Thanks for looking! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CashWiley Posted January 30, 2017 Author Share Posted January 30, 2017 Another slim sketchbook week due to classes. I kind of took a class on Sunday, too. Sat in on a figure painting class and did gesture drawings. Since there was only one pose, I ended up sketching the students a lot. Here's a sample of that, I did a bunch of pages like this. Gestures ranging from 20 seconds to 2 minutes (but mostly 30 seconds to a minute), charcoal on newsprint 18x24. Also a head study at the end of the session, about 15 minutes (same media). In the sketchbooks, another page of study from Huston's book, graphite on paper 9x12. Still working on my Simone Bianchi Ororo copy in the small sketchbook...getting bogged down in the hair details, blah. NSFW anatomy: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3667682/Scribbles/Sketchbook/2017/Sketchbook45.jpg 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CashWiley Posted February 1, 2017 Author Share Posted February 1, 2017 Had a great figure drawing class last night. Due to this forum's policies on the nude figure I'll just be linking to my blog. https://cashwiley.com/2017/02/01/figure-drawing-2/ 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CashWiley Posted February 6, 2017 Author Share Posted February 6, 2017 Woops, forgot the painting update last week. You can read hear for more words, I've already forgotten what the heck I did! https://cashwiley.com/2017/02/01/wednesday-night-oils-11/ No digest this week, the only sketchbook work I did was on Ororo and a few practice gestures for class last week. So here's my copy of Simone Bianchi's Ororo piece. Mine is graphite, 8.5 x 5.5: 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CashWiley Posted February 9, 2017 Author Share Posted February 9, 2017 Figure drawing as usual is from nudes, so here you go: https://cashwiley.com/2017/02/09/tuesday-night-figure-drawing/ Starting the first painting with the hand, chin and mouth. Basically just putting in the planar changes and adding a vibrant color to build on later. I once again put my faith in my instructor, because to me it looked garishly bright. After watching her paint for a while, though, and picking her brain for a bit, I was able to get it to start coming together. It's a bit different than the previous portraits and I love how she continues to push me with each project. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CashWiley Posted February 11, 2017 Author Share Posted February 11, 2017 I figured it was about time to start a master copy at home to augment my schoolwork. I'm going to zoom in on a section of a Caravaggio. Oil on canvas, 11x14. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CashWiley Posted February 12, 2017 Author Share Posted February 12, 2017 Values underpainting for Judith. Just titanium white and burnt umber, thinned with OMS. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CashWiley Posted February 15, 2017 Author Share Posted February 15, 2017 Tuesday night figure drawing. Subject as always is nudes, so NSFW or this forum: https://cashwiley.com/2017/02/15/tuesday-night-figure-drawing-2/ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arc 724 Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 Your making great strides my friend. Well done. I'm enjoying watching you progress. Thank you for sharing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CashWiley Posted February 15, 2017 Author Share Posted February 15, 2017 Glad you're enjoying the thread. Hard to tell sometimes when it's just me posting updates every couple of days... :) Feels like I'm still a complete newb, but now at least I can look back at last year's work and feel like there has been some improvement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CashWiley Posted February 16, 2017 Author Share Posted February 16, 2017 Wednesday night oils! Had a pretty successful night. Fixed the drawing for the right side of the head, had to widen things out by almost an inch, but the proportions are correct now. Better to fix something immediately, no matter that it's a lot of effort. Then I focused on first painting the shadows. Since his right cheek and eye were mostly framed by shadows, and I needed to mix some halftones to blend the shadow edge into, I also first painted the cheek and eye there. All in all, quite a bit of paint was put down last night! Part of my ability to get right into painting was my awesome pochade box. Most of my mixes from last week were still workable, so I was able to start painting almost immediately. Here's the state of the palette after last night's session: 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CashWiley Posted February 22, 2017 Author Share Posted February 22, 2017 Tuesday night figure drawing, NSFW: https://cashwiley.com/2017/02/21/tuesday-night-figure-drawing-3/ 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.