More figure drawing

It seems all I ever draw now is women once a week. Drew a belly dancer this week. She had great form. The accessories also made a change...

3 min: Was feeling good:

25 min: One of my favourites to date:

30 min: Not bad:

30 min: A bit awkward. I was avoiding the weird angle of the head:

The last angle wasn't worth drawing, so I left early. What good is a belly dancer lying down anyway?

Thursday figure drawing

rHmmm.

Only two warm-ups because I was late for class this week. Mugg & Bean (won't say which one) were slow on my order. And they buggered it. Every week I go in there and order the same thing: Americano with cold milk and one sugar, a Cappuccino with one sugar for the old lady that runs the class, and a lemon poppyseed muffin (which strangely seem to be getting smaller each time they go up in price) to take away. I always make them write it down. It's never right. I think it's because they don't reckon it's their job to add the milk and sugar. That's supposed to be my job. Fuck that shit. I'm in a hurry.

3 min...





25 min each:





Wasn't my best. Thanks Mugg!

There's a first (and a last) time for everything.

Goddammit, I'm running seriously short of content lately. Music is consuming most of my spare time. Drawing is taking a back seat. These things happen I guess. I do still need to find some shit to post tho...

I created this portrait of Christopher Walken back in college. Two weeks of stippling with 0.5 and 0.25 mm technical pens on A3ish Crescent board. Something I'll probably never bring myself to do again.


Closer to actual size:

Almost killed me.

Thursday figures

Big girls are great to draw.

3min warmups

45 min slow

30 min

30 min

Still trying to deal with my ginormonogginophobia.

It's a small world after all

Chronic seed

Coarse carpet

Matchbox

Chronic bud

Ex-small flying bug...

All taken with my happy snappy Nikon Coolpix through a magnifying glass. Cropped for effect with some levelling here and there...

Figure drawing.

A little rusty after a 4 week absence. Why does work always seem to get in the way?

3 min...

10 min (I had to pop back home to let the maid in and pick up my fixative)

20 - 25 min.

Painted with light, she dropped her keys.

Another dance move to fire people by.

This one can be a little tricky.

Don't look at me like that

Poise...

Click the top image to see the whole layout at this res.

Thursday figures

Today I finally made use of my Canson light and dark grey sheets. Inspired by my life drawing hero James Jean, I was looking to use the black and white pastel on newsprint, but my local art shop is perpetually out of stock. So I got the cheap Canson (Vivaldi, 120gsm) instead. Also, my camera is quite shite, so these were levelled in Ps for more accuracy.

3 minute warm ups on plain white A2 120gsm...

20 minutes (Light grey)

30 min (Dark grey)

20 minutes (Light grey)

30 minutes (Dark grey)

This angle is always a biaatch.

More canvas WIP.

Who knows where this is going?

Thursday figure drawing

3 min warm-ups...

20-30 min each...







All pastels on A2. I'm quite liking the pastels. It feels like I've done more in the same amount of time. It could be the depth of the black giving sharper contrast and the use of the light grey. I love the light grey. Never thought I could love light grey, but I do. I don't love awkwardly small heads - they're incidental. I have this fear that I'll draw the head too big, and the whole figure will look ridiculous. Ginormonogginophobia. It's not very common.

Canvas WIP

A corner of a 24" square canvas I'm busy with.

Figure drawing

Hmmm. 20-30 min each. So slow.








A bit awkward on the distortion there...

Spiral stare-case

Figure drawing

After about 6 months of constraining myself to not much more than H and 2B pencils on A4, today I finally let loose with chalk pastels on A2. It was quite liberating, though a lot more of a mess.

These are all 25 to 30 min.







Let's see where it takes me...