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December 19, 2020 at 7:49 pm in reply to: Vera’s 100 Day Challenge: Figure Drawing – Gesture and Structure #1022040December 18, 2020 at 12:08 pm in reply to: Vera’s 100 Day Challenge: Figure Drawing – Gesture and Structure #1019264December 17, 2020 at 8:35 pm in reply to: Vera’s 100 Day Challenge: Figure Drawing – Gesture and Structure #1018423December 16, 2020 at 8:31 pm in reply to: Vera’s 100 Day Challenge: Figure Drawing – Gesture and Structure #1017254December 15, 2020 at 8:12 pm in reply to: Vera’s 100 Day Challenge: Figure Drawing – Gesture and Structure #1015992December 14, 2020 at 9:26 pm in reply to: Vera’s 100 Day Challenge: Figure Drawing – Gesture and Structure #1010798December 13, 2020 at 8:54 pm in reply to: Vera’s 100 Day Challenge: Figure Drawing – Gesture and Structure #1007689
Worked on my master challenge today, the Gibson drawing. Made me think about the interplay between composition and gesture in multi-figure designs. Not going to count today’s work toward my 100 day challenge.
December 12, 2020 at 7:06 pm in reply to: Vera’s 100 Day Challenge: Figure Drawing – Gesture and Structure #1002890Strong drawing is a great basis! I’ve generally heard that drawing is the foundation for painting, as it teaches you composition and value management. Color merely represents yet another dimension on top of those skills. If you’ve only painted with watercolors, it might be worth giving a different medium a shot. Water color is problematic because the wet paint is a bad indication of the dried value and color on paper, in addition to all the the unexpected things that can happen when painting wet on wet. Many people recommend that you start painting in grayscale, so you get a hang of the medium and basic mixing before bringing in the color aspect. Supposedly color itself doesn’t matter as much if you get the value of that color right (I’ haven’t tried that hypothesis yet)
December 11, 2020 at 12:03 pm in reply to: Jaylene’s 2nd 100 Day Challenge: Gesture Figure Drawing #1000644Nice work! Did you practice much figure drawing before you started the challenge? It seems like you started from a strong position – I’m jealous! 🙂 Looking at your practice, I think I need to try a bit heavier with constructive techniques.
December 11, 2020 at 10:54 am in reply to: Vera’s 100 Day Challenge: Figure Drawing – Gesture and Structure #1000564Day 28 Live drawing today FELT good, although now that I look at my drawings, I don’t necessarily see much improvement. At any rate, I went more with the gesture flow today. It helps to draw women, who are less angular than men. Had this odd problem today where I started with big heads and then followed up with a smaller body, and I had to fix the head to keep it from looking too freakish
December 10, 2020 at 7:47 pm in reply to: Vera’s 100 Day Challenge: Figure Drawing – Gesture and Structure #999871December 9, 2020 at 8:12 pm in reply to: Vera’s 100 Day Challenge: Figure Drawing – Gesture and Structure #998492December 8, 2020 at 12:00 pm in reply to: Vera’s 100 Day Challenge: Figure Drawing – Gesture and Structure #995716December 7, 2020 at 6:44 pm in reply to: Vera’s 100 Day Challenge: Figure Drawing – Gesture and Structure #991453Day 24 I’m trying to be more strategic about my daily exercises, but haven’t quite cracked it yet. Instead of setting myself time limits, I set 2 minute “check-ins”, to course correct my work before committing to a heavier line. But I’m still a bit too eager and confident to press on, and I don’t see the flaws until I’m done. Maybe I’ll try 1 minute increments tomorrow and possibly even step away from the drawing board
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