01-03-2019, 07:02 AM
With the Winter break I cut back abit on practicing and spent some time relaxing and catching up with family since it had been awhile. Last week I was getting rather tired of working on studies and decided to do some imaginative sketching instead and just have some fun.
Tried some different approaches for some portraits, 1st page I stuck with the reilly abstraction and used it rather heavily to help with the initial lay in. 2nd page I still used the abstraction for the lay in but not as much, tried pushing a few of the lines more but mainly I tried being alot looser than normal and just skecthing for fun rather than being heavily systematic.
1st page
2nd page
Tonight I wanted to dome imaginative figure work but it kicked my butt. Felt like I was getting alot of mental blocks and not being able to draw the pose I had in mind so that's telling me that I need to study the figure more.
Foe the remainder of the week I want to do some more imaginative work and get back to studies next week. Watts classes start either next week or week after (I'll need to check) and sign up is tomorrow, planning on taking lucas's features and facial expressions class and Erik's figure drawing class. When they start my plan was to cut back on portrait work since I feel like I've studied it quite abit for the last few months and focus on master studies, anatomy and figure manikins.
Started a Leyendecker master study last week so will work more on that either on the weekend or next week and finish some other studies that I started last week aswell.
Starting next week I'll be putting in more hours into my job until the beginning of Feb, we are currently in the process of moving offices and they need my help so will most likely update my sketchbook on the weekends.
Tried some different approaches for some portraits, 1st page I stuck with the reilly abstraction and used it rather heavily to help with the initial lay in. 2nd page I still used the abstraction for the lay in but not as much, tried pushing a few of the lines more but mainly I tried being alot looser than normal and just skecthing for fun rather than being heavily systematic.
1st page
2nd page
Tonight I wanted to dome imaginative figure work but it kicked my butt. Felt like I was getting alot of mental blocks and not being able to draw the pose I had in mind so that's telling me that I need to study the figure more.
Foe the remainder of the week I want to do some more imaginative work and get back to studies next week. Watts classes start either next week or week after (I'll need to check) and sign up is tomorrow, planning on taking lucas's features and facial expressions class and Erik's figure drawing class. When they start my plan was to cut back on portrait work since I feel like I've studied it quite abit for the last few months and focus on master studies, anatomy and figure manikins.
Started a Leyendecker master study last week so will work more on that either on the weekend or next week and finish some other studies that I started last week aswell.
Starting next week I'll be putting in more hours into my job until the beginning of Feb, we are currently in the process of moving offices and they need my help so will most likely update my sketchbook on the weekends.