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March 26, 2020 at 4:28 pm #432950
Hi, I’ve been working on my figure drawing a lot and experimenting with new ways to draw. Here’s some of my drawings and paintings from the past year. I’d love to get a critique!
Above is an hour figure drawing. I started with a sanguine underdrawing then drew the rest with conte paris charcoal pencil. From october 2019
Above is a painting I did from a photo reference. From october 2019 as well
Above are some gestures from December 2019
Some hour long figures from January 2020. I’m mainly just drawing with a charcoal conte paris pencil
Above is a recent painting I did in January. I painted with way too much solvent and accidentally used brush cleaner as my solvent so I had trouble controlling the medium. January 2020
Above are some drawings from February 2020. This time I tried to emphasize more on value and shape. So I started using a chamois and toning my newsprint paper with charcoal before I started drawing. I focused much more on a painterly approach to the figure drawings, with much less emphasis on lines. February 2020
A recent painting from February 2020. I should’ve toned the canvas better beforehand!
This is my most recent work. I haven’t been able to go to figure drawing since. I focus much more on shapes and line. I’m much more focused on rendering and block in shapes in a painterly style. Feb 2020
Recent NMA courses that I have been getting through:
Rendering Techniques with Chris Legaspi
A little bit of Russian Academic Drawing Approach
Bill Perkins Color Series
I would love to have a critique on my current progress as well as what you think I could improve on going forward. Thanks!
March 26, 2020 at 5:59 pm #433305Hi Kevin
I’ve hardly done any figure work so I can’t provide useful feedback for it, but I can say that you can clearly see you’ve been working and can see the overall improvement in your drawing, so keep it up!
I have more experience with painting though. It is a lovely portrait. I like seeing that you’re trying to preserve the brushwork, which I personally like in paintings. The overall colour scheme works well. As for solvents, I’ve had that problem too. I’ve ended up now hardly using solvents, if I do it’s just a bare brush dip, otherwise I paint with paint only and also just brush dip into some linseed oil to help spread the paint. I think also focusing even more on being deliberate with placement of each brushwork to even more prevent mudding up of colours by blending more than necessary. I struggle with this so much! takes a lot of discipline to put the stroke down and just leave it there, And trying to not line the lips and above the upper eye lid – something also that I need to work on myself.
Keep it up!
March 26, 2020 at 10:36 pm #433572Thanks for sharing these! I’m trying to organize everything for upcoming critique videos now!
March 27, 2020 at 4:52 pm #435273Hi Josseline,
Thank you for the critique! I’ve moved away from using any solvent at all in my painting and have been using neo megilp from gamblin instead. You’re right that I lined the lips and upper eyelids too much. I still have tendency to focus on line rather than shape, which I’ve been working on!
Jacob,
Thanks ahead of time for the critique. I look forward to seeing the critique videos!
October 17, 2020 at 3:57 am #833193Hi Kevin
I really liked your mark making and colours in painted portrait al your hard practice is bearing beautiful frui
Kind regards
Tim
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