More Figure Drawing

I was able to make it out to a scanner and I now have some more figure studies from my week to show you. I'm unsure if I should show some of the other exercises I've done but I'll consider it for the future.

 This first one is just studies from Bridgman's Life Drawing book and some sketching from reference to get things going.

This little batch were all from reference. I've come across some wonderful reference things lately and I've been trying to use them more. Each of these had their good and bad in the practicing and I think I'm improving in the understanding of light and how it works on the body.

















 

I find that I like sketching in erasable colored pencil. It for some reason it helps me get into the zone and work the problem more effectively. I wanted to work on angles and likenesses with the portraits. I think that will be a good and regular use of the day during the week I have allotted to that time.

In the end, these last couple of weeks have been good for helping me establish exactly what I need to do with my practice. the exercise sources I'm using feel good, the practice feels good and the allotted time feels right to keep me learning without burning myself out and I think I can improve this way.

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Unit 4: Portraiture-Lips and some portraits

This isn't quite the way I'd wanted to return to the blog but lips are an important part of the face and some study of them is necessary. Especially since I didn't do that good of a job :(

More practice to come on the subject.

Then I've got these guys. A couple of portraits just done in pencil. I admit I had more fun and think I did a better job capturing the likeness of the female subject than the male (the male was found via doing a search for asian male models) and frankly the woman was just more fun to draw (though I think I got her head leaning a bit. I'll do some full paintings soon that'll hopefully demonstrate some portraiture improvement.

Unit 4: Portraiture-eyes

You know what are fun to draw? Eyes. Also, I'm actually rather proud of the top right sketch on the bottom image.