01-14-2019, 05:01 AM
Update for this week.
Portrait Class
My usual life classes started again this week, it's only been 3 weeks roughly since I last went but I felt very rusty at first I eventually got back into the swing of things but man I was not expecting it.
Finished the actual aly-in early but didn't have enough time to render it or start another drawing so thought I'd do some studies of the features at the side. Tried rendering the eye in the bottom left but f***** it up.
Felt like I wasn't simplifying enough and still getting caught up in the little bumps and crannys such as with the nose and her hat.
I've been reading Nathan Fowkes Portrait book so I want to try and incorporate some of his ideas next week, specifically his simplification.
Life Class
Usual 3 min and 10 min quick sketches, it felt very rough executing them. Tried going slower and making sure my reilly abstractions where correct for the model.
Sketchbook
Spent most of the week doing more imaginative work, mostly Loomis manikins and some more portraits. I was very more conscious when it came to figure proportions. Wanted to push my female heads since I suck at making women look attractive. I spent some time looking at how Brian Knox simplifies features etc and tried emulating that in my own imaginative work. Thought these where an improvement over my last female head but still needs work.
I've quite enjoyed these last 2 weeks of purely imaginative work, it was a nice break from working on studies constantly and I've pin pointed some problem areas that I need to work on as seen below:
. Planes of the head ( my rendering was all over the place on some of the portraits and felt like it was due to not remembering all of the plane changes)
. Heads at extreme angles
. Proportions of the figure from dynamic poses/ foreshortening and remembering interesting poses
. Gesture drawing (needs improving greatly)
My scheduele is tight for the next month or so so some of these issues will have to wait until my scheduele is not as busy
(p.s sorry for the long post!)
Portrait Class
My usual life classes started again this week, it's only been 3 weeks roughly since I last went but I felt very rusty at first I eventually got back into the swing of things but man I was not expecting it.
Finished the actual aly-in early but didn't have enough time to render it or start another drawing so thought I'd do some studies of the features at the side. Tried rendering the eye in the bottom left but f***** it up.
Felt like I wasn't simplifying enough and still getting caught up in the little bumps and crannys such as with the nose and her hat.
I've been reading Nathan Fowkes Portrait book so I want to try and incorporate some of his ideas next week, specifically his simplification.
Life Class
Usual 3 min and 10 min quick sketches, it felt very rough executing them. Tried going slower and making sure my reilly abstractions where correct for the model.
Sketchbook
Spent most of the week doing more imaginative work, mostly Loomis manikins and some more portraits. I was very more conscious when it came to figure proportions. Wanted to push my female heads since I suck at making women look attractive. I spent some time looking at how Brian Knox simplifies features etc and tried emulating that in my own imaginative work. Thought these where an improvement over my last female head but still needs work.
I've quite enjoyed these last 2 weeks of purely imaginative work, it was a nice break from working on studies constantly and I've pin pointed some problem areas that I need to work on as seen below:
. Planes of the head ( my rendering was all over the place on some of the portraits and felt like it was due to not remembering all of the plane changes)
. Heads at extreme angles
. Proportions of the figure from dynamic poses/ foreshortening and remembering interesting poses
. Gesture drawing (needs improving greatly)
My scheduele is tight for the next month or so so some of these issues will have to wait until my scheduele is not as busy
(p.s sorry for the long post!)