12-10-2019, 04:53 AM
Update for last week. Had to work extra hours at my day job so had less time to work on my art so not a whole lot this week.
Portrait Class
Still struggling with my portrait class from life. I'm still trying to work on my block-ins via the academic way but still finding it difficult. I started on a new drawing as I was really hating how the first one was turning out, thought it would be easier to just start again rather than trying to fix all the mistakes.
I think the reason why I'm struggling so much is 1. Poor lighting in my class. and 2. Sitting far away from the model.
Normally if I'm workring from photo ref at home it's well lit and I'm sitting much closer to the ref as I have it displayed on my monitor compared to being a good distance away when working from life. I'm going to try and experiment from sitting further away from my photo ref at home and try and mimic my life class more, and work on my drawing/measuring skills from a distance.
Life Class
New 3 week sinlge pose class started again, this time it's life drawing. Did alot of measuring on this one and trying to get it as accurate as possible. I'm going to see how far I can get in the next class with rendering it as in the final class I want to do some painting.
Live Streaming
Erik
Week 8
Working on putting it all together this week and taking the drawing past the structure portion, making it look more organic and making it look more like what I see.
Afterwards I injected a middle value, trying to work on my control of the pencil as I feel like I'm still too heavy handed, especially when trying to inject a soft shadow.
Feedback
Erik
Week 6
Week 7
Brian
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
I feel like I'm being rather directionless in my work the past few weeks and not working towards an end goal of sorts, almost as if I'm drawing for the sake of drawing and not retaining the information. Would more imaginative/memory drawing or more finished pieces be a solution to this issue?
I plan on revisiting the poster idea I had a few months ago and try and ink it by hand instead of digital as I was having difficulties with working that way. Perhaps doing that will provide me with an answer.
Portrait Class
Still struggling with my portrait class from life. I'm still trying to work on my block-ins via the academic way but still finding it difficult. I started on a new drawing as I was really hating how the first one was turning out, thought it would be easier to just start again rather than trying to fix all the mistakes.
I think the reason why I'm struggling so much is 1. Poor lighting in my class. and 2. Sitting far away from the model.
Normally if I'm workring from photo ref at home it's well lit and I'm sitting much closer to the ref as I have it displayed on my monitor compared to being a good distance away when working from life. I'm going to try and experiment from sitting further away from my photo ref at home and try and mimic my life class more, and work on my drawing/measuring skills from a distance.
Life Class
New 3 week sinlge pose class started again, this time it's life drawing. Did alot of measuring on this one and trying to get it as accurate as possible. I'm going to see how far I can get in the next class with rendering it as in the final class I want to do some painting.
Live Streaming
Erik
Week 8
Working on putting it all together this week and taking the drawing past the structure portion, making it look more organic and making it look more like what I see.
Afterwards I injected a middle value, trying to work on my control of the pencil as I feel like I'm still too heavy handed, especially when trying to inject a soft shadow.
Feedback
Erik
Week 6
Week 7
Brian
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
I feel like I'm being rather directionless in my work the past few weeks and not working towards an end goal of sorts, almost as if I'm drawing for the sake of drawing and not retaining the information. Would more imaginative/memory drawing or more finished pieces be a solution to this issue?
I plan on revisiting the poster idea I had a few months ago and try and ink it by hand instead of digital as I was having difficulties with working that way. Perhaps doing that will provide me with an answer.