LIFE Drawing Study Sample
Added 2022-05-07 01:17:10 +0000 UTCLast week I was able to visit a new local figure session group at the college, and it had been such a long while, it was fun and fresh to work from the life reference of a different model!
I'm sharing this session with you to see an example of how I go about working out a figure study from life within a short, timed sitting.
First I started by doing a small, quick sketch to get a feel for the pose {going up as this week's 3x5 Friday post!}
This is graphite on a single 3x5" sketchbook page.
Then I committed to a 6x8" study in my other book with graphite for the subsequent 5-6 twenty minute sittings. Sorry, I did not keep track!
As always, I start simply with light marks to find the large mass form and then capture the gesture in minimal strokes. Then I work from large to smaller and smaller structure by measuring and noting down, pushing around the graphite quite hands on as I go, until I can refine the features to capture a sense of character.
This model had some ornate tattoos that I tried to capture the general shapes of in a sort of open, impressionistic way.
This study is incomplete, but I like it that way. It wasn't meant to be a refined and formal or fully realized drawing.
