[Marcolino Estuardo]

Awesome! You can add more contrast by picking out her pupils/lashes, nostrils, and mouth corners and darkening them just a tad bit more. Grab a 4,6,8B pencil and push it.

Love this angle too!

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@PaulDidier @LEWISMACKENZIE Hey, thank you!

This is the last of my hand studies to show. For this portrait I used a felt-tip marker. A bit dry but I love ’em that way!

[Marcolino Estuardo]

Great sense of action!

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Cool!

Double-check your perspective on the cliff/scene in relation to the figure itself. >_<

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First image, Left: I like the attitude of the pose, it reads in its action. The legs are too symmetrical. Character could’ve been added by slightly by one of the legs pushing towards farther to the viewer. I assume he has been drinking. The hand reads too much like a mitten. Simplification/envelopes are good, try adding in some planes to separate the palm and fingers as shape masses. Lower leg/foot on the right: make sure to have the foot ‘curve off’ of the leg rather than having a sharp corner. Same for the figure below. Its far leg has corner.

Construction is good. Keep at it. Study the drawings of Tintoretto.

Cheers

[Marcolino Estuardo]

I think these are studies from Giordano. Below is a favorite portrait. Really like watercolor/brush. Happy Monday!

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Happy Saturday!

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Hands and a portrait in paint. Besides my sketchbook, I’ve also been busy working on a big painting commission. Teaching myself how to paint by doing little portraits in monochrome when I can. Chris Legaspi has some great painting vids on his YT channel so that’s been informative recently. 🙂

Enjoy your weekend!

[Marcolino Estuardo]

Hello, I’m back. Excuse the hiatus. Finished up a sketchbook that I started in February. A long journey. Mainly continued my arm/hand study of Luca Giordano and a bit from Guido Reni, self-portraits, and some note taking on Painting. Some life drawing whenever I went out.

I’ll update for the next few days.

Hope everyone is safe and well!

[Marcolino Estuardo]

Great! Loving the cleaner lines here ^^

Don’t get too caught up in the bumps in anatomy. Stay focused on the major forms that make up each body part.

Left drawing: Rib on top of the pelvis; Always think of ‘around the form’ and how that line shouldn’t be straight, but curved going ‘down and around’ the pelvis.

[Marcolino Estuardo]

Hi Vaidehi! Good stuff. A few things,

1. I would aim to practice ‘cleaner’ lines. When doing quick poses, you want to capture the mood/essence of a figure through its large thrusts/rhythms that show the viewer what the figure is ‘doing’. I had the same mistake of getting caught up with anatomy bumps. Ease into it and construct.
2. Don’t be too intimidated in capturing the whole figure (not sure if these are long or quick). If it’s quick, start off by focusing from one form to another. With practice you’ll be able to go further.
3. Focus on construction more clearly. Take the time to build your structures (sphere, boxes, tubes) piece by piece. I see that you drop down a thrust line, that’s good! But draw out the ends and have them connect and flow.
4. Ink is awesome! I love it. Though it is super-fine! When rendering, it’s easy to confuse the viewer. I advise you to look at how Steve Huston uses pen to render his sketches. He usually drops down a mass with lines coming from a certain direction. Look at Da Vinci’s sketches.

Keep at it. Your full rendered figures are good too!

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Hi @VictorAlawani and @KarolinaPawlak Thanks so much for the kind words! Appreciate that it’s inspiring and that the principles read. 🙂

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Really good crass-hatching there for the Brandi figure. I love the balance, mood as well. Shading on the upper legs could use more character. Nice to follow the form, but some anatomical knowledge will help in defining the shadow shape. Of course, that comes with practice once you start studying the muscles and whatnot.

Solid!

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Hi Vera. Great of you just putting in the days.

Regarding some of the narrow heads, I would warm-up/take time doing simple diagrams mapping out the general proportions and also constructing the heads as simple volumes (sphere, block, cylinder) from orthographic angles (top, sides, front, etc.) and THEN drawing them to a likeness. With those eyes, is it an exercise in inking? Or is it eye construction as well?

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