05-02-2019, 07:20 AM
Apologies for the late update. Spent last Thursday working on the painting but was really struggling with my colours. Spent a good hour pre-mixing my colours and they looked good on my pallette but once applied to the painting surface they just looked horrible. I did use a fair amount of white to lighten the overall value of the paints to match my colour comp but I think it threw off the saturation as they just looked horrible. Might also be becuase I was painting thinly, perhaps if I went thicker then it would of looked better? I'm not too sure.
Tried remixing my colours to try and correct it but my colour knowledge isn't where I need it to be atm to be able to correctly correct the mistakes, I decided to leave the painting atm and once I have more experience with colour and painting I'll come back to it and see if I can correct it.
Apart from that I spent the weekend catching up on art videos that I've bought but either hadn't watched completely or not watched at all (I know).
New term of Watts classes started last week so I'm back to studying. I mentioned a few posts back that I want to focus purely on my figure drawing skills for the next term so I'm only taking Erk's figure class, plan to spend the rest of my days working on different aspects such as quick sketch and anatomy and get my figures up to the same standards as my heads.
Erik's Class
Week 1 of Erik's class. Again I started with the big envelope shape of the figure and tried measuring more with my eyes/plumb lines rather than careful measuring so to speak (e.g. how many heads tall is the figure). My height seems to be ok but I'm still having problems with my width measurements being too big.
Anatomy
Started this week off with some anatomy tracings. Didn't refer to Proko's tracings when doing them as I wanted to see how much I still remember about anatomy and use it as a starting off point to see where I am currently. Once I've studied anatomy more I'll come back and redo these tracings to see how much I've improved.
Tracings
Tried to see how many of the muscles I can remember the names of.
Proko's tracings ontop of my drawings
As you can see my arm/leg anatomy is pretty much non-existent.
Portrait Class
Still focusing on drapery in this class as I'm taking a break from head drawing. Been reading Erik's drapery handouts while in work and trying to identify fold types in-class. Had to do a little of invention as the model wouldn't keep still.
Tried remixing my colours to try and correct it but my colour knowledge isn't where I need it to be atm to be able to correctly correct the mistakes, I decided to leave the painting atm and once I have more experience with colour and painting I'll come back to it and see if I can correct it.
Apart from that I spent the weekend catching up on art videos that I've bought but either hadn't watched completely or not watched at all (I know).
New term of Watts classes started last week so I'm back to studying. I mentioned a few posts back that I want to focus purely on my figure drawing skills for the next term so I'm only taking Erk's figure class, plan to spend the rest of my days working on different aspects such as quick sketch and anatomy and get my figures up to the same standards as my heads.
Erik's Class
Week 1 of Erik's class. Again I started with the big envelope shape of the figure and tried measuring more with my eyes/plumb lines rather than careful measuring so to speak (e.g. how many heads tall is the figure). My height seems to be ok but I'm still having problems with my width measurements being too big.
Anatomy
Started this week off with some anatomy tracings. Didn't refer to Proko's tracings when doing them as I wanted to see how much I still remember about anatomy and use it as a starting off point to see where I am currently. Once I've studied anatomy more I'll come back and redo these tracings to see how much I've improved.
Tracings
Tried to see how many of the muscles I can remember the names of.
Proko's tracings ontop of my drawings
As you can see my arm/leg anatomy is pretty much non-existent.
Portrait Class
Still focusing on drapery in this class as I'm taking a break from head drawing. Been reading Erik's drapery handouts while in work and trying to identify fold types in-class. Had to do a little of invention as the model wouldn't keep still.