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Hey @Tim Thanks! All the best on your journey! I have fond memories of my beginnings 🙂
Excuse lack of updates. Just realized I have to go through my next sketchbook. Here are a few gestures from the last one. A note on these: They’re actually from a YT vid of Charlotte Ambroise (?) for her performance on ‘A Chorus Line’. My gf introduced me to it. I was enamored with her dancing and would pause the vid and capture everything. An awesome exercise to do! Actually, a live session last November, we told our model to do 5, 10, 30 second poses. Quite fun! I’ll try and dig up some long-poses from last too. Only managed to do 2 this year because of the outbreak.
Hey Marcolino
Brilliant flow rythm gesture music are these really small and fast and pen?
I feel the head and figure are the most demanding subject
I mainly practice with apples pots landscapes only been drawing since July
Thanks for the update
Wow! Happy to be one more voice saying these are incredible – they feel like good lessons themselves 🙂
Hola @Tim. Gracias for the observant words. If you’re talking about the sketches above you, then yes, they are small. They’re on a pad a lil less than 8.5×11 in. So each figure is around an inch or so maybe. Nothing grand. Yep, done fast, maybe 30 secs or a minute. I don’t recall timing myself for these. Just captured the essence of the video I was watching. Yep, all pen.
@nick.lagrow Wow thanks for that. Just here posting. But happy that you may be getting something out of them. Always great to learn from others. Liking your clean practice too! 🙂
Hello. For the next batch I will be sharing pages from a pad started in the end of March right as we were all getting comfortable at home hoping the virus will vanish in 3 days and we can enjoy life again. With figure sessions cancelled, lockdown seeming to not end, I decided to just continue my self-study of Huston’s book. I tackled chapters 6-8 from Part 2 during this time. Part 1’s exercises were great, drawing over Old Masters with tracing paper. For the Part 2, it was pretty much the same, minus tracing paper, so I had to work freely with my own hand. So fun!
The only ‘life drawing’ I did was daily self-portraits. These are extremely personal. I was close to not sharing anything, but it’s all I have scattered about. It’s been weird looking at myself. Don’t know how much I got left to live so I figured these would be a nice record of the times we’re in. The figures are exercises ofOld Master breakdowns from ‘The Torso’ chapter. The sketchbook was finished July 2nd. Enjoy.
Outstanding, the proportions are wonderful and the shading is good, it is a nice style of yours.
@Abhi Thank You Senor! @Ram Pranav Thanks man. Hope you can visualize the words I’ve been telling you of. 🙂
More figure breakdowns from Hale’s ‘Master Class in Figure Drawing’ book. Self-portrait off bathroom mirror and my phone during a video call. I cannot grow that big of a beard. It is the black of my mask.
Forgot to update this! Here are more Old Master figure breakdowns and self-portraits!
Here’s another hoodie one! Since it’s cold and windy where I live today. Yay Autumn!
A bit of a random one from May. I was out late at night, saw the time and was like “Oh shit! Gotta do my self-portrait!” It was a cloudy, full/bright moon, still dark, so I took out my phone and used that since I was nowhere near a mirror. It was a nice exercise in big shapes/silhouette and getting a likeness out of that. It helps that I wear glasses.
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