Bring in the new year with naked bodies....

We haven't missed a Wednesday evening since we opened, and we don't plan on it. Practice makes perfect after all. If you'd like to join us, c'mon down on Wednesday, we have Sarabella modelling for us again. Here's my sketches from the last session we did with her.

This year our first Wednesday evening figure drawing was with Neema. Here's what I drew with new charcoal on bamboo paper.

We also had a figure drawing and time management course for Studio C/Prospect, heres a video peek below.

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"Window-shading" the sketched figure

Lately my figure drawing process has become window-shading. its a fast way, after a general lay in, to capture and render from head to toe. This time I didn't quite make it to the end and left the foot unfinished revealing my process. Essentially "window-shading" is an area by area method of working on the piece after the overall composition has been drawn in. Below is the one I did from the last figure drawing session at Atelier Artista.

If you'd like to join in the fun we draw from life every Wednesday night 7 - 10 pm at Atelier Artista located n the fourth floor of cSPACE!

Drawing 1 figure drawing 2

We had our second figure drawing session with my Alberta College of Art and Design Drawing 1 group. I taught many different ways of seeing and how to change up how we apply marks to the paper.  Here are a few of the drawings from later in the session. Check out the students progress.

 Get out of your normal ways of working and try to challenge yourself with something different.

 Where's the progress if you always play it safe? 

Go figure!!!

I teach figure drawing at ACAD. This week my lectures and demos centered around  proportion, proper measuring methods as well looking at idealized references like Hale and Loomis. These are some of the drawings at the end of class.

If you are interested in learning how to figure draw better, I will be opening up figure drawing sessions and long poses at my Atelier. It is instructed and It's a great opportunity to put in the necessary time and practice to get good it'll be cheap!

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This time I'm a student

I'm taking a figure drawing course at ACAD instructed by Carl White. I figured it is a good idea to devote more time to the practice and being enrolled for a certain time frame really helps, plus there is a live model in each session.

 Working on large format newsprint experimenting with the mark making I can do with my tools.

 Starting up can be a little awkward. The poses are fast so you need to look as long as you can and then work quick.

The idea Carl presses is in the minimum marks being made and to let go. Harder for me since I am used to draw with line.

Here I use a bit more tonality in the form as a starting point, a core I work out from and attempt to capture the feeling of the gesture.

Here I tried to use even less line work and to experiment with the use of the side of the charcoal to create differing values. The figure in the middle is an attempt to express upward the reach the model presented.

 Here things were once again falling into my outlining and getting out of this pattern is desirable to really discover new ways to make a drawing.

 Working quickly really helps this. In one drawing there is only the shading and no line describing what I perceive as the edge of the form, yet there is no line in life and no real edge, that is just an illusion.

By loosening up and forgetting about proportion or drafting techniques I am changing the way i create the gesture.

 Now I'm starting to use less to communicate more. In the top one there is no line where the light is brightest. I use a dark pulled away from the body to give it more form.

 This looks very soft and works for me as a quick descriptive gestural representation of our model.

 Here I get to focus a bit more on the nuances of the muscles tone in her back.

I feel that this one was the most successful in "letting go" and really has some nice mark making within it. So I figure now I'm finally warmed up and getting it.

I had more time to develop my final drawing of the session, I am very happy with hour it developed. It is just past the point of not being simple enough and could use a bit more work, that or I went to far. I  attempt to express my intention to celebrate of the beauty of the female form.