Life Drawing
Some of my drawings from today. First, are some five minute warmups. Afterwards, I look at these and wonder where the five minutes went. I look at how few lines I've drawn and realize how slowly I draw. I had to bump up the contrast on all these to make them more visible. They were all done in an HB or an F pencil and they're pretty light. Also, I had to chop some of them off at the feet when I scanned them; they were done on a 14" by 20" pad and are a little large for my scanner.
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Now we have a fifteen minute drawing.
And finally a twenty minute.
I really try and adhere to a three stage drawing process. First, draw the gesture. You can make out some of my gesture lines inside the "final" drawing. Second, draw the shapes. Finally, draw the features i.e. the muscles. I must admit, I tend to blend these last two stages much more than I should.
I should focus some of my time on just getting the shapes and orientations in place. I'll work on this and then post some of those. As an aside, I was thinking that when I sketch on the tablet, I can use a separate layer in Painter for each of the stages. It'll be interesting to try that and see how it works. Maybe it will force me to separate the stages a little better. More likely I'll just end up with muscles drawn in the shapes layer...