[Totally]

all right, these are a couple of new figure drawings from this week. They are each 2 hour studies, and done with ebony pencil, white pencil, and on gray canson paper. Feel free to comment and critique away.





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[burn0ut]

Not bad, except you need to really pay attention to the faces! there really outa proportion and look very skewed, like she has no chin, but an extralarge forehead?
But it looks like she would have no bottom teeth and just a jaw..
Also her arm/shoulder is very small/thin compared to the rest of the body...

The second pic, again the face is very small
and theres almost no chin there either..

[Totally]

if i worked more on the faces, there would be no time for the rest of the body. These are timed pieces, and as that is the case, the entire image is gradually worked on and refined. We are supposedly going to have another session with each of these models some time in April to continue work on these pieces.

btw: she has an very high forehead. I drew her as she was, not as she would be ideally.

btw.. here's a face (although it's not a finished face)... which I was not limited by time to do: http://www.perilith.com/~totally/randiincomp1.jpg
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[burn0ut]

I was just stating, mabye you need to work out the porportions better before hand, your picture will come out all that much better

[Joachim]

Agree with burnout. There's some nice areas, but overall I think you need to work more on the face proportions....as well as other areas. One hour,...I don't think time is a good exscuse, because then I would say, work on the face before shading the body. Also, life drawing, you have long poses, so maybe it could be good to do more figure drawings, quick ones, learn to get the whole figure down at first (even if it's long poses, do series). If you really train hard on that, it's actually possible to get it all down really quickly (meaning 3-5 minutes)...

but don't get me wrong, nice going !

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[Totally]

We do 15 to 30 minutes of gestures a day. Gestures are anywhere between a minute to 5 minutes. I posted some in my old life drawing thread here: http://www.sijun.com/dhabih/ubb/Forum5/HTML/001425.html

I definitely need more time and practice with gestures before I can say that I have them down, but hey.. that's why I'm taking figure drawing classes. I have been taking them for only a couple months now, so I am looking forward to seeing where I am in perhaps 6 months from now.

btw, Joachim: I looked at your site. Nice gestures there.
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