[Jair]

27/04/2022  — 5/100

I went back to the limbs this time and decided to draw the arm (focused on the forearm). I knew that not knowing anatomy would confuse me a lot in this challenge but I think this is actually helping me somehow. As I don’t have much knowledge to correctly draw the internal forms I end up focusing on the big shapes. Learned a lot with this one!

In this drawing, Michelangelo thought of the forearm as a big egg; the wrist was thought of as a rounded box form (like a toy joint). The hand is also thought of as a box. Unfortunately I only understood how I could have drawn the hand correctly now, after I was done.

The upper arm seems to me to be a cylinder transformed into a box as well. The corners and also the deltoid give the impression of two well-defined planes.The deltoid was thought of as a double-egg.

 

 

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26/04/2022  — 4/100

I invested a little more time today to make up for my last drawing above (which I didn’t like)! This one (as always) was pretty difficult. Michelangelo always surprises me with how he uses shapes and forms, they are often overwhelming (like the deltoid, which I had to simplify a lot so I could at least understand). He really really knew his anatomy. I went a little overboard with the linework on the flexed arm, but eh, it happens. I’m happy with this one today!

The focus of the Challenge is on gesture and structure but I feel like I’m learning a lot more about hatching Lol I’ve always liked this technique of hatching in one direction to fill whole areas with tone (like the torso), I think I’m finally learning how apply it in an interesting way.

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[Jair]

Thanks Paul! It’s definitely going to be challenging, especially when I move on to the Last Judgment and/or Sistine Chapel figures. Let’s see where this all goes!

[Jair]

25/04/2022  — 3/100

Ended up biting off more than I could chew this time. Absolutely beautiful original drawing, but I still don’t have the knowledge to draw it satisfactorily! I had a lot of difficulty with the eye in profile and the bones of the face, I haven’t gotten used to them yet it seems like. On the bright side, I found that my hatching has improved a lot these days and I was able to draw the basic structures and fit the neck and shoulder in a simple and satisfying way.

 

 

 

[Jair]

24/04/2022  — 2/100

For the second day, the right arm of the Sibyl! Dang, I just love this drawing, it’s my favorite drawing ever. I had to draw this quick yesterday because I had a few things to do so it was done a bit hasty, but I think I managed to get the rhythm that starts at the triceps, goes through the epicondyles and goes towards the hand through the forearm. Great to celebrate small victories!

(I’m late on this one because my phone battery died last night and I couldn’t take a picture in time!)

[Jair]

23/04/2022  — 1/100

Starting small before progressing to bigger things. I decided to start with the individual studies for the toes of Michelangelo’s Sibyl. Even something so small has so much mastery behind it!

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