Showing posts with label charcoal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label charcoal. Show all posts

Thursday, October 28, 2010

More Life Drawing


Our life drawing class was cut short today, due to transportation issues encountered by our beautiful model. Thus, we only had time for a couple poses. My missing last week's class and the resulting figure-drawing rust rendered today's first-pose effort un-postable. Here is the second one.

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Life Drawing Class Studies

Life Drawing Studies

It's been thirty years since my last life drawing class and, at long last, I'm finally taking another. This one is taught by David Everett at Laguna Gloria and it's great to have found such a capable teacher. The instruction is geared toward finding the correct proportions, strictly in horizontal and vertical terms, which I am finding very helpful. The standing poses were twenty minutes, the center one, forty minutes. Not that there's much difference in the level of finish. They were done using a peel-able charcoal stick, which I have not yet learned to shade with. For the time being, I'm roughly cross-hatching to indicate shadow areas.