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Day 16:
Reposting from day 16. Did some quick poses and one longer one, which I’m posting here. After taking this photo I went back and fixed the right leg. The left looks too short but I can’t tell what exactly is wrong anymore. Feedback would be great.
Day 18:
Yesterday was busy so all I did was some gradient shading practice and quick figure sketches. Here are the figures:
Also, it’s been long enough I think I’ll try reposting day 15 and 16 again but with one photo at a time.
Well, I’m hoping my posts from day 15 and 16 show up…I had two pictures each so maybe it’s just taking a minute to go through.
Day 17:
Finished the next lesson from the Composition course. I meant to do the homework but I really wanted to do a breakdown of another Sargent painting. So I did a value study of his Daughters of Edward Darley Boit, 1882. Maybe I see too many horror movies, but it looks like the opening scene for a ghost flick.
Day 14:
More practice on blocking in from the Beginning Drawing Atelier book. I’m not done with the block in and have some corrections, but it’s a start. I get very impatient on the middle bits because I don’t really understand what the subject is/what’s going on.
Good idea, and thanks for the suggestions!
You’re right on the length. I used tracing paper to go over how long it should be from the photo ref using head lengths as a measure. The body should be about three head lengths, not running on four.
Day 13:
Reviewed some of the lessons from the Russian Academic Drawing course that I started last year and did some pages of connecting the dots and doing tones within the lines. Then I went back and finished yesterday’s goal of sketching pigs.
Day 12:
I got pulled away halfway through my art time, but I still got in some coordination exercises (connect the dots, shading, value scale) and then started some pig sketches. I’ll be doing a little piglet watercolour piece this week and am trying to understand how to draw them.
Day 11:
Sketching from life: one clementine from three different angles and mediums. I had fun but I’d like to do the same medium for all three angles and just do more. The paper has strong tooth so maybe charcoal isn’t the best pick for it (or I have to use it differently).
Day 10:
Quick sketches from photo models (NMA) and animals (via QuickPoses). Includes 2 and 5 min poses for people and 1.5 on animals.
Day 9:
Bit off more than I can chew. Tried using gouache for the second time in my life, used a new paper, new colours, new subject all at the same time. Here’s what progress I made today:
I need to finish the background and detailing and fix some pinna. Work in progress for sure.
Day 8(?):
Well, I knew one of these days was going to be no-art. Unfortunately I got a bad headache midday yesterday and could not draw (or read, or work) for most of the day. Today I did some more tonal sketches from photos to see what should be my next ‘bigger’ work. I settled on this unfurling fern after struggling to get the pinna angles correct, which means I need the practice. I haven’t done all the clean up so you can see where I struggled with angles and some of the reworked sections.
The frond looks like some alien bug-plant hybrid in real life- that’s why I took the picture to begin with. It’ll be interesting to see if I can get that impression to come across in the final version.
Day 6:
Fixed a few things from yesterday’s watercolour. I went to the park with my charcoals and sketched thistle for a bit. The spikes on the leaves actually make a sine wave-type motion, which is pretty cool.
Day 7:
Mostly went over videos from the composition course, but I did some thumbnails of art from Mary Blair, who did art for Disney (Peter Pan, Cinderella, the Small World ride, etc) after seeing Bill Perkins go over some of her art from Alice in Wonderland. It’s not as much as I’d like to have done, but it’s something.
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