[Marcolino Estuardo]

Hi Jaylene.

I like your box figure studies. Such a good form study exercise! Do be conscious of your height, width, depth lines of the boxes themselves. Grab a box, feel it, rotate it, walk around it. Then, continue doing more of these. Look at Luca Cambiaso and Nicolas Poussin drawings.

All the best!

[Marcolino Estuardo]

Goodnight!

[Marcolino Estuardo]

@Mike and Raven, Thanks!

@Mattias, Yes! I LOVE on location drawing. I do my best to balance practice, figure sessions, and people watching. Always lots to learn. Go scope out your area and see if you can do some. Not sure how the lockdown is in your hometown currently. Wear a mask please!

Here are a few more warm-ups. I promise to show more longer ones tomorrow and on! Cheers.

[Marcolino Estuardo]

Hi Raven.

I will relay the message that Glenn told me and his students: Don’t copy the contour. Draw what the figure is doing.

I would recommend practicing the simple forms (box, cylinder, sphere) along with line-making (rhythms specifically). Well, warm up with that then go into figure gesture.

I watched Glenn and Steve’s timed-sessions RELIGIOUSLY. How are they doing their lines? How are they describing form? Look at the Old Masters as well. Don’t fret. Just keep going. The more you do and absorb, the more you will learn and see.

 

Cheers

[Marcolino Estuardo]

Love those shapes for your figure gestures. Proportions seem fine to me. Nothing ‘off’. I know Steve says to err on the side of more dynamic, longer limbs rather than short ones.

[Marcolino Estuardo]

[Marcolino Estuardo]

Hey Simon, haha don’t think I have a style, but thanks!

For this week I will be sharing pages from a sketchbook dated January 12-Feb 15. The sketchbook is almost exclusively figure drawings from a bunch of sessions I was going to for the month.

During this time, I began a class with Glenn Vilppu himself. It was a pleasure to talk to him, pick apart his brain, and have him show me a thing or two. I would bring Old Master books for him to look at. Despite studying him on my own, he still managed to make things clear and open my eyes to things I didn’t know before. I have a ton of pages from that class. I’ll share them next week.

Also, in this sketchbook, I began ‘Chapter 4-Perspective’ off of Steve Huston’s book. One of the more difficult chapters. So yeah, lots studying and live drawing. Here are a few warm-ups.

 

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[Marcolino Estuardo]

Hola Pablo, thanks.

The figure drawings are in pencil. The last two location ones are in pen.

[Marcolino Estuardo]

Love the first post of the Sorolla. Those colors <3

Is Day 9 a self-portrait?

[Marcolino Estuardo]

Thanks Mirian and Don. 🙂

[Marcolino Estuardo]

Hola Andres,

Awesome job throughout! This will pay dividends in the future. About those value studies/thumbnails, did you start with them at the beginning of the challenge or is it something you just recently started doing?

How are they helping you? Are you noticing a difference once you get to the larger piece?

[Marcolino Estuardo]

Hola Jerry!

Love the energy and gracefulness of those gestures. Awesome job on honing in on the cross-contour lines. For some of them, those lines do compete with the shading so it all gets lost. If Form and Cross-Contours are your thing for the time being, just make a clean line drawing. In your software, you can lower down the opacity just a tad bit on those construction lines.

The Ballerina’s leg lifted up is a perfect example of simple, solid construction. More of that!

Cheers!

[Marcolino Estuardo]

Hey Philip,

Good job on these heads. I like that you focus on the construction/big shapes/centerline, etc. Also love that you’re focusing on the construction and not adding shade to all of them. Get that solid grounding first!

Keep at it. Regarding those features, watch your proportions and perspective. Try keeping those features are simple large/blocky shapes. Keep going!

[Marcolino Estuardo]

Aaaaaaaand finishing off with some general life drawing from a weekly group I’m part of. Well, they meet online now since you can’t have gatherings anymore.

Second pic is a drunk self-portrait in a bar restroom. People were still out and about, no masks during this time in December. Both sketchbooks were small so mainly filled with journal entries, gestures from workshops, and the occasional guerilla life drawing.

Cheers!

[Marcolino Estuardo]

More live warm-ups from various sessions.

 

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