Figure Drawinhg Class 7/23

Last night of the class. For me, working on a drawing for 3 hours is way more than a gracious plenty.

Figure Group 7/22

Same model for the second week in a row. This women just started model last spring I think. She's turned into a good one. Just don't seem to get finished even with a longer pose. Gettin' slow.

I learned on this one that BK Rives paper is not good for charcoal.

I was consoled on this one when someone told me the foot was good, it had 5 toes.

The prospect for next week ain't good.

Figure Group 7/15

Not much shakin last night. 2 minutes is either too long or too short so a few fragments.

So since it was raining someone had an umbrella.

Hopefully things will level out with this group in the fall.

Figure Drawing Class 7/9

Last Thursday we worked on breaking the parts of the figure into planes, basically 3 planes per form as I understood it. Good exercise but in my opinion you have to use it with discretion when not doing an exercise.


Wiped out most of this one. What's left is OK.

The British artist, Euan Uglow, who was used as an example was very interesting. Really liked his work. He apparently was into measuring and proportions, etc but we found several of his figures that were like 9 or 10 heads, mainly elongated from the hips down.

Figure Drawing 7/2

After a couple of frustrating weeks in both the Figure Drawing Group and figure drawing class last night produced insight into seeing, analizing and rendering light and shade. These drawings go from begining to end of the class. This drawing is my first try with the fat charcoal.

In my opinion this drawing represents my best effort dealing with technique that Ben Shamback was getting us to try for rendering light and shade. This was about 20 minutes and obviously could use a lot more time.

The last was a longer pose, about 25 0r 30 minutes. An awkward pose from my angle and should have had been darker on the back in the core shadows.

Maybe it won't be so long to the next post.