Latest Life Drawing

The top one is from life drawing tonight, and the one below is from a little while ago. I'm slow getting the major shapes down and I never get more than a few minutes so I'll never learn how to draw fingers...

Fall 2009 Traditional Portfolio

Hi anyone,

I wanted to post the fruits of my personal labor over the last few weeks. This is my traditional portfolio as it stands now. I realize where it's at, and I wish I could do more. Though honestly, given my schedule, I'm almost proud of myself. ...almost.

Life Drawing

Life drawing has been going relatively consistently lately, so I'll be happy to keep posting what I've got. This should go strong for the next six weeks at work, so let's hope I make some improvement. Maybe I'll compare the start and the finish when it's all over. Here are two five minute poses.






This one was a one minute gesture. Obviously not fantastic but I thought it was the most successful short pose that I did. Hopefully I can encourage the instructor to do some ten to twenty minute poses in the following weeks. I'd really like to take the time to check proportions and get some finer detail in these.



Thanks!

Life Drawing

So here's two more of the less revolting poses from life drawing last Wednesday. Five minute poses again.

Lunch Life Drawing

I'm back at it again. We had a chance to do some life drawing during lunch today so I busted out the old newsprint pad! This time I made some notes of the more frustratingly glaring issues with my drawings. Things I see right away, that I don't understand why I don't see them as I'm actually drawing them. *pulls hair* Not to shy away from the greater problems evident herein. Five minute poses, except for Monster Leg Man.



Somehow I completely failed at taking pictures too. I had a bright light shining on the paper and used a flash but it looks like I took it in a dark alleyway. The last life drawing images came out fine... I don't get it.



To he honest, his head was rather large, but to be fair, it wasn't nearly that large. And I get so caught up in these sweeping lines that I drew his friggin' leg like double the size of the rest of him. I shudder at the thought of him unfolding that leg...



Speaks for itself.



How is that even acceptable?



And the stupid part is I thought I should accentuate the naivete by going over it in charcoal. Somehow his ankle narrows into a ramen noodle?

So that's it! I'll keep this stuff in mind for next time.