Life drawing morning -
The draw over - small, but beautiful tweaks.
Second pass of oil painting demo -
Toned paper demo..
Only one more week....
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New foreshortened view of same model. Kicked my butt. Couldn't ever get to a 'happy' place with this one.
My drawover...
After lunch, we had an oil painting demo. Here's the toned block-in.
Color/value strings to be able to lay tone down directly -
Watching the master-copy painting....
So gorgeous so quickly!
Only a couple of weeks left...
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Life drawing - same pose, but another angle this week.
(Third year student here - color painting now, rather than charcoal).
After lunch - we had a demo on toning paper to work on -
Discussions of gouache, shellac, gelatin, and pastel dust ensued....
But look at some of these awesome examples of working on it!
That back study on the left? Yum! (watercolor pencil on gelatined/gouached paper).
Made a tiny bit more progress on the never-ending someday fairy painting.... (wish I liked the figure better. The pose we were 'supposed' to work from is far from inspired...)
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I had the same view this week at the Atelier (extreme foreshortening!) -
This week, I brought a 'cheat' - a quartered plastic sheet clipped onto a frame that you can 'trace' the image in front of you with a dry erase marker (a la Betty Edwards - Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain).
I'd kind of forgotten about this tool - haven't used one for years (but I also try hard to not ever draw anything that foreshortened from life if I can help it!)
Hugely useful though. I didn't have to spend so much time referee-ing the knock-down, drag-out arguments that my right and left brain have when I attempt this kind of thing. It's generally paralyzing (see the incredible lack of progress with this same pose last week).
After lunch, we continued to discuss composition. This week, Root Rectangles -
(with example armatures on classic paintings)
As well as a discussion on Golden Sections - all aspects of formal composition I've never really studied before. So, yay.
*And*, I'd asked about our instructor's approach to line work (SO beautiful!!!) -
So, we ended the day with a discussion on his thought process behind his line and brush making. Looking forward to seeing if I can apply this stuff!
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Life drawing morning.... I can pretty much tell how much sleep I've had the night before by how easy or difficult it is for me to get things put down proportionally... (Today was NOT a good proportional day...)
My teacher's draw over. Way prettier....
Afternoon lecture/demo on using Photoshop to check adjustments to your work in progress before doing it on the actual piece.
My comp and final value study for this piece....
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Life drawing session...
A bit of instructor draw-over adjustments...
(The model had changed her head position at this point, so brand new face. But such a *beautiful* face!)
Working on compositions with this particular pose. Very good feedback (lots of reading of Andrew Loomis' "Creative Illustration"). Some new things to try! Yay for that!
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New quarter - some new concepts (composition is now being covered. Yay).
Some lingering perspective discussion (ergh!!!)
Examples and assignments...
I spent the day working on composition and value studies - one based on the current model -
- and some from outstanding projects hanging on my desk..
Now to get some time to actually *paint* some stuff...
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Last class of the quarter (a couple of weeks off before starting up again)-
My life drawing effort for this week.
I did get some tonal revision-help from our fearless instructor (he makes everything prettified!)
Then, there was the dreaded perspective lecture/exercises after lunch...
I'm not even going to bother to show you my mind-bogglingly lack-luster attempts. Perspective hurts me. (The teacher assures me he can keep me from wanting to kill myself, and maybe even internalize this somewhat this time around...?)
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Drapery demo today -
Slight draw-over (argh. I do tend to make my heads too big...)
Ah well... Too big head...
In the afternoons, we're now starting to really delve into perspective.
Speaking of heads - perspective generally makes mine explode. We'll have to see if I can survive with my brain intact...
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Life drawing morning. Got a drawover of my profile at one point - so I re-did mine as a study -
(So much easier after seeing someone else do it beautifully...)
We spend the afternoon talking about perspective and drawing cube sorts of things (things that hurt my brain).
Until next week....
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Life drawing morning (which I spent almost entirely on the body. Got like 6 minutes on his poor head).
Block in practice after lunch.
Got a really helpful draw-over. Tweaks - but really good direction for nuance and graphic simplification.
Learning stuff....!
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Morning life drawing block in...
Got a mini-demo on starting faces/portraits.
Then after lunch we did some more blocking exercises from photos and examples (SUPER helpful!)
Draw-overs/corrections....
Starting into a larger, more complex one... Lots of homework this week.
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This week, although rather suffering from sleep deprivation from painting all week (turned in the painting today), I tried to really focus on structure and connections.
Really informative draw-over - talking about the structure of the knee and shoulder primarily...
Watched several draw-overs today. It really helps reinforce different ways of thinking.
So - not *pretty*, but lots of thinking going on here...
Really good demo on hands after lunch....
(although that whole sitting in a dim room, all warm and full makes for nearly painful sleepies!)
Spent the last hour on another cast drawing..
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Life drawing session....
After lunch lecture - lots of examples of work from other Ateliers. So, so beautiful.....
Demo for us part-timers -
-and by then we had a scant half hour to try to block this thing in -
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Week #3. More life drawing.
Thought hard, and tried to apply the stuff we're talking about. (Must have worked some this week since I got an 'atta-boy' rather than an immediate draw over. So, yay.)
Another demo - this time on rendering techniques (that's a ways away for me though) -
Cast drawing block-in after lunch.
(I did get draw-over on *that*! :-)
And a little adventure on the way home - we got a flat mid-drive on the freeway. At rush hour. *THAT* was fun!
Good week though - I'm learnin' stuffs!
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Congratulations on approaching the forced perspective. Forced perspective is a great tool to master, it has the power to really draw the viewer into the piece- and just a little can go a long ways. In fact, I find that a little is better, less obvious. Except when you really need it to tell the story as in Caravaggio's Conversion of St. Paul the Apostle.