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Here’s another hoodie one! Since it’s cold and windy where I live today. Yay Autumn!

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Forgot to update this! Here are more Old Master figure breakdowns and self-portraits!

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Nothing to add. Just admiring these latest figures (Nice Steve copy ya got there 😉 ).

Doing the object practice and being halfway through, how are you feeling when you draw figures? Are you looking at your first days? Any difference in how you approach them now?

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Good work all around.

I would make the heads a bit smaller. Don’t be afraid to group the ribcage and pelvis into one big form as you feel the figure throughout. I like that the form shapes read clear. Couldn’t find examples of Rubens, but look at the sketches of Poussin: Ignore his shading, but look at how big and blocky he is. Vilppu once blocked out a figure using straights, still as gestural as if he was going through them, again, approach was different but they still conveyed the action.

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<3 <3 <3 these object sketches. Cross-contours is something I wanna do more of. Nice exercise Vilppu suggests doing too! I usually just stick to big simple forms when drawing objects. So cool!

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Hola Nick,

For that Halloween figure, the bottom buttcheek, I would’ve shaded it entirely. I think that light is following the cylinder of the leg (?), but it could just be a large simplified mass shade. Don’t feel obligated to the lighting of your reference. Make clear what you can.

I’m liking how even your tones are. I gotta practice that. 😛 Go, go!

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@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.

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Some pages. Happy November!

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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.

 

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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! 🙂

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I saw this ^^ object study in the Forums thumbnails and thought “Pretty sure that’s Mattias” 😉

Yeah, scheduling/time management has been hit and miss for me throughout. Definitely been a bunch of times where I just practice like crazy, then kinda just do it sparingly. Drawing everyday without thinking about doing it is easy, it’s blocking out chunks of focused/dedicated/consistent time. >_<

Love those ballet figures. Posted a few gestures on my thread based off of this Broadway performance: https://youtu.be/tOWh6LSHa48

Good exercise for warm-ups to start your day off.

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Nothing much to say here. Just adore the commitment and study in this whole thread. Inspiring!

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Yo,

Regarding timed-sessions, follow the advice of Steve Huston, where you don’t aim to finish a whole figure. Just pick a part and focus on that. How does the head connect to the shoulder? How does that arm come off the torso? How are legs coming off the hips? etc, etc.

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Hey Mattias, won’t be the first or last time you’re in a rut. Take a day break if needed.

I will say that your figure on the right follows Steve’s word on tracking that long-axis wherever you see it, here, it’s along the torso to the leg to the foot.

Rest easy.

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Is this nose cast from life or reference? I love the contrast you’ve added. But, the underside of a nose is usually in reflective light. The value is rather dark. Can you provide the reference?

Good job on getting that Robert Beverly Hale book. You can dispense your other books/videos and stick to that one. It’s the only book you’re ever gonna need these next 4 years. XD 🙂 😉

Absolute fave of mine.

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