February Figure Drawing at the Society of Illustrators
I go to figure drawing monthly at the Society of Illustrators and still love it. Tuesday night we had a male and female model and here are my 10 minute and 20 minute drawings.
February 18, 2011
February 4, 2011
Hand Drawings
I am slowly practicing drawing hands from photos on the American Sign Language site. I am moderately pleased with these drawings, but when I am faced with a real model, and hands are only part of the challenge, I can't draw individual fingers. Oh well!
Here are my most recent hand drawings. And then I added some drawn from photos of one of my grandchildren's hands.The sign language hands were drawn with a watercolor pencil and then brushed with water. My grand daughter's hands were drawn with a standard color pencil.
February 1, 2011
Sonheim Drawing Lab - 100 Faces (32-38)
I am still slowly working my way through the Carla Sonheim Drawing Lab entitled 100 Faces. The majority of these are sketched on the bus or subway in New York City. Among these six, however, there is one of Howard Jacobson, the author of the Finkler Question. I was watching a YouTube video of him talking about his book and couldn't resist drawing his interesting face and hat.
I still haven't gotten past #40 Face - this is a slow project for sure....
January 18, 2011
EDM Challenges 267 and 278
Here are two EDM challenges that are from Feb-Dec 2010 - 10+ months that I didn't do any last year. I printed out and cut up the individual challenges and put them in a jar next to my chair - I can now select one randomly when I'm out of ideas for my daily sketchbook page. These were both done after I selected the challenge from my jar. The actual challenge strip that was pulled from the jar is glued across the top of the page.
January 12, 2011
Watercolor Pencil at Figure Drawing
Last night was my first session at Society of Illustrators for 2011 and one of my art goals for this year is to move toward use of watercolor while drawing figures. I decided that a good place to start is the 20 minute poses - and to use a watercolor pencil and then brush in the watercolor pigment with water. My paper buckled when I added water, but I cleaned up the scan buckling lines a little with Photoshop before posting these. Next time I will take watercolor paper for these experiments. Stay tuned to see how long it takes me to move to watercolor and paintbrush - I move slowly....
I still did my first 20 minute pose in 9B graphite. The contrast was increased a little for posting.
These are the other two drawings - drawn with a Caran D'Ache mahogany watercolor pencil and then painted with water:
Open this link, if you also clicked on the Society of Illustors link for Sketch Night in the first sentence:
http://www.paperandthreads.com/2010/11/figure_drawing_and_illustrator.php
Joan was sitting right next to me!