Figure Drawing: Week Six

So I don't think this week was my best. On Thursday we started focusing on the anatomy of the arm so we spent a while just drawing arms. And arms look weird by themselves! I was having trouble with it. Oh well! Learning is good. :)

In the last couple minutes of the pose I decided that I didn't like how cartoony my drawing had turned out (the one above) so I did a quick drawing of it again in a different, looser style.

(I only really liked how the torso came out on this one, so that's what you're getting!)

Photoshop fun: Old Lady

So weirdly I had a bunch of free time this evening. So... I decided to use it to break out my tablet and play with Photoshop! Hooray! It's great to draw for fun sometimes rather than just for class (although that's good too).

This is a drawing I did at the beginning of the semester and posted on here (so it might look familiar) but now it's colored! Enjoy!

Figure Drawing: Week Five

Hello friends! This is the weekly figure drawing update! There are fewer images this time for a couple reasons. 1. I didn't like as many of my drawings this week(and as the author of this blog I only have to show you ones I like haha) 2. We had a couple REALLY long poses-- like 1 1/2 hours for one pose (which is crazy-long in my opinion) 3. One of my pieces (and probably my favorite from this past week) is currently being reviewed by the Illustration department for the annual Student Life Drawing Show! I don't know exactly when I will find out if my drawings were chosen (the open house is on Thursday so I will know by then at the latest) but if they are I will definitely let you know. :D

Also, we were focusing on the anatomy of the back so that's why there are several studies of the models from the back.

I actually thought there was more time left on this pose than there was so this isn't quite finished. So you get a sort of "in process" picture I guess!

(sorry for the blurriness of this one-- I didn't feel like going back and taking another picture of it haha)

Figure Drawing: Week Four

Here are some more figure drawings that I have done this week. We did more head studies on Tuesday and then moved on to focusing on the torso on Thursday. The format of this class is that on Tuesdays we spend the whole time drawing from the models and then Thursday we spend about an hour (it's a three hour class) having an anatomy lecture on a specific part of the body. This is the first figure drawing class I have had that actually incorporates teaching about anatomy and I think it is really interesting and is pretty helpful.

Anyway, here are the drawings!

I am providing a slight close up not because it helps you see it much better, but just because I really liked the way his face turned out and I wanted to emphasize it by showing it as its own image. :)

(I am the artist and so it is my prerogative to decide that I really didn't like the way his head turned out so I am only showing you the body. Ha.)

This was my first attempt at doing a sustained pose with GRAPHITE! It was odd to have my dear old friend graphite be so difficult! Apparently graphite doesn't work well on Newsprint. But it was fun and interesting to try a different medium.

I was late to the open drawing lab this morning and so there weren't any open drawing horses. So I had to try to hold my huge pad of Newsprint on my lap. It was difficult. But I got a few gestures that I liked alright!















Also, I wrote a sonnet for my Creative Writing class and since it is about how I feel about Figure Drawing I thought this was as good a place to put it as anywhere!


Figure Drawing

The darkened class with solitary light
Casts shadows soft. The form, anatomy
Unbroken, curves and muscles pull—the sight
At which I stare and set in memory.

As cautious lines from charcoal smooth the page,
My hand is marked by smudges black. The dust
That clings to fingertips serves as the wage
In which I, student artist, now must trust.

To me it seems impossible to draw
And not to fuel a wond’ring sense of all
The skill in hands that take a substance raw
And with an artist’s touch create us all.

What challenge—more a wond’rous privilege sweet—
Is mine to draw His masterpiece complete.

Figure Drawing: Week Three

Here are the figure drawings I have done the past week in class and in the open drawing lab held on Friday mornings. Enjoy!

Also here are some caricatures of a couple girls in my figure drawing class! I figure if you are drawing during the lecture in an art class it's okay-- it's like studying, right? :D

FIGURE DRAWING!!!!

So I managed to finagle my way into the Intermediate Figure Drawing for Illustrators class (even though I'm still not in the program)! It worked for the Beginning class and now I have managed to be in two classes that only majors are supposed to take. Hooray! Experience! And gosh darn it I've missed figure drawing! It's been a year since I took the last class and while Painting last semester was fairly fun and very informative, nothing beats drawing figures. I love it.

Here are a couple drawings I've done recently!
(I'm already assuming that, since this is an art blog, you are well-aware that there are going to be all sorts of drawings of people in bikinis and speedos and you are okay with that.)

Doodling in Class

What a great start to the semester! It is only two weeks into school and I have already doodled/sketched out almost 10 for-fun drawings! That's much better than last semester. I think having a Figure Drawing class (as opposed to only a Painting class) really helps me with my own work.

Here is a quick sampling of some of the sketches I've done!

An old lady based on the back of someone's head I saw while I was eating lunch!

The TA for Psychology! (I find it odd that a middle-aged woman would wear what she wears to work)

A girl in the Tolkien class I almost took! (Yes she was wearing this very interesting poncho sort of thing)