Things I’m working on..

[Leon Hölzl]

Hey, I’m Leon from Austria. I went to a sculpting school and learned from Johanna Schwaiger who’s now teaching in NMA. She taught me so much and I’m really thankful for that! Now that she’s in LA I am happy to have all the NMA online courses to study from.
Here are some recent and also a few older works from me and I would love to get some critiques from you all.
The last two works I did were some Pin-ups which I used reference from the 40s-60s.
I also love to do portraits but mostly in BW because I’m not really good with colors yet, but thats the next step.
I mostly work digitally on my iPad and I know that working on paper would be better..
So thanks a lot,
Leon

 

[Leon Hölzl]

I’m not really sure how to add more drawings in the same post, but I just put them in the reply section.

[Leon Hölzl]

 

[Leon Hölzl]

A portrait of my girlfriend.

I would love to start painting with oil but I need a few more supplies and a good working space..

[Leon Hölzl]

Another portait of my girlfriend which is a bit more rough and also not completed. ^^

[Leon Hölzl]

A not quite finished caricature of Will Smith.

[Joshua Jacobo]

Leon, I’ve done a video critique of your work here: https://www.nma.art/forums/topic/free-student-video-critiques-by-joshua-jacobo/

[Aidan Andrews]

How do you approach tone? do you break the subjects down into planes first or do you more just eyeball it? Great work here.

[Josseline Jeria]

Hi Leon

I just watched Joshua’s critique of your work – very informative!

I love your pinup piece! How do you go about developing the volumes of the figure?

[Leon Hölzl]

Hey Aiden,

thank you! In my opinion I’m not very good with tones and values yet and struggle with it a lot, but I guess I try to break it into planes first and then work it out as I go, so still pretty much eyeballing haha. But I watch a lot of tutorials and stuff to get better at it. Also the color theory course from NMA I’m watching at the moment really helps me.

[Leon Hölzl]

Hey Josseline,

thank you! The pin-up is a copy of this piece but I tried to make her a bit curvier (I hope thats not offensive) so I got a few reference photos from NMA which I used and just tried to do the basic forms from the photo but add more volume on certain spots. I guess thats not a very good explanation but I don’t really know how else to describe it ^^

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[Josseline Jeria]

Hey Leon,

Haha all good! Volume can be something tricky for me to get right, I guess it comes down to the initial construction and values. Thanks for sharing the reference and how you used others to adapt the image to what you wanted to express. I don’t mind at all! I prefer more curvaceous and/or more muscular women, i.e. deviations from the norm. Hope you’re keeping safe.

[Josseline Jeria]

p.s  I saw you said to Aiden that you are doing the colour theory course here – you mean Bill Perkin’s one right? If so, that course is SO good. I came out knowing far more than I could and still can put into practice! haha. I have a sketchbook dedicated to the course. I will have to go through it again soon, and several times in the future, as the course is jam packed with information.

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