Figure Drawing for July 31, 2010

3 Minute Pose

Charcoal on 9" x 12" gray bogus paper.

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Figure Drawing for July 30, 2010

40 Minute Pose

This was done with charcoal pencil, carbon pencil, and white chalk on 12" x 18" grey bogus paper.

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Figure Drawing for July 29, 2010

5 Minute Poses 

Here is a series of warm-up drawings.  Each was done in about 5 minutes and was done as an exercise in continuous line drawing without lifting the pen from the paper.  I don't **THINK** I cheated (much) on these... :-)

All drawings were done with ball-point pen on 8-1/2" x 11" white card stock.

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Figure Drawing for July 24, 2010

5 Minute Pose

This was charcoal and carbon pencil on 8-1/2" x 11" gray cardstock.

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Figure Drawing for July 23, 2010

20 Minute Pose

This was done with charcoal, carbon pencil, and white chalk on 12" x 18" gray bogus paper.

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FIgure Drawing for July 22, 2010

40 Minute Pose

This was done with charcoal, carbon pencil, and white chalk on 12" x 18" Strathmore 500 Charcoal Paper.

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Figure Drawing for July 16, 2010

30 Minute Pose

This was done with charcoal and carbon pencil on 8-1/2" x 11" gray cardstock.

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Figure Drawing for July 15, 2010

20 Minute Pose

This is pastel (I used a brush and water to get it more "painterly") on 9" x 14" gessoed canvas.

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Figure Drawing for July 14, 2010

30 Minute Pose

This was done with charcoal pencil and white chalk on 12" x 18" gray bogus paper.

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Figure Drawing for July 8, 2010

30 Minute Pose

This was done with charcoal, carbon pencil, and white chalk on 12" x 18" Strathmore 500 charcoal paper.

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Figure Drawing for July 7, 2010

30 Minute Pose

This was done with charcoal, carbon pencil, and white chalk on 9" x 12" Canson paper. 

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Figure Drawing for July 6, 2010

20 Minute Pose

This was done with charcoal, carbon pencil, and white chalk on 12" x 18" grey bogus paper.

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Figure Drawing for July 1, 2010

15 Minute Pose

This was done with ball-point pen and watercolor on 70# Strathmore drawing paper, measuring 9" x 12".

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Figure Drawing for June 30th, 2010

30 Minute Pose

This was done with ball-point pen, watercolor, and white acrylic paint on 12" x 18" brown bogus paper.

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Figure Drawing for June 27, 2010

30 Minute Pose

This is charcoal, carbon pencil, and white chalk on 12" x 12" Strathmore 500 charcoal paper.

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Figure Drawing for June 26, 2010

20 Minute Pose

This was done with charcoal, carbon pencil, and white chalk on 12" x 12" gray bogus paper.

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Figure Drawing for June 25, 2010

3 Minute Pose

This was done with charcoal and carbon pencil on 9" x 12" Strathmore 70# drawing paper.

And here's another warm-up drawing...

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3 Minute Pose

This was done with charcoal and carbon pencil on 9" x 12" Strathmore 70# drawing paper.

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Figure Drawing for June 22, 2010

40 Minute Pose

This was done with pastel on Strathmore 500 charcoal paper and measures about 12" x 18".

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Figure Drawing for June 17th, 2010

20 Minute Pose

This was done with charcoal, charcoal pencil, and white chalk on 12" x 18" bogus paper.

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Figure Drawing for June 16, 2010

20 Minute Pose

Hooray!  I'm back from a little break.  I plan to be posting about 2-3 times a week so I can work on other things here and there.  Well, enough with that--On with the show!

This was done with charcoal and charcoal pencil on 12" x 18" gray bogus paper.

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Figure Drawing for May 31, 2010

40 Minute Pose

Happy Memorial Day!  

It's the officially unofficial official start of Summer! 


Hooray!  I've been posting daily for about 6 weeks!  That said, I think I'll be slowing down with the posts for a while--only posting two or three times a week, give-or-take.  We'll see.  I'm hoping to start doing some larger projects, which I may be posting in an all-new blog.  Or something.  Again, we'll see...  :-)

This was done with ball-point pen on 9" x 12" Canson 100# Bristol Board.

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Figure Drawing for May 30, 2010

5 Minute Pose

It's time for yet another figure drawing!  This one's a bit different from my usual pictures.  The picture was originally charcoal on white paper, but it didn't shoot well at all.  In adjusting the Levels in PhotoShop, I got this instead.  I sorta like the effect, though, and thought I'd post it.

This was done with charcoal and charcoal pencil on 9" x 12" Strathmore 70# drawing paper.  The colors were adjusted in PhotoShop.

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Figure Drawing for May 29, 2010

30 Minute Pose

This was done with black and white acrylic on 7" x 10" gessoed illustration board.

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Figure Drawing for May 28, 2010

40 Minute Pose

This is from the same session as the previous post.  While the painting itself is OK, this didn't turn out nearly as well as I would have wished (the face is a little off).  And, once again, just as I started to get my brain wrapped around solving the problem of painting the translucent cloth, the pose was finished.  If only I had another 10-15 minutes to work on this pose.  Sigh...

This was done with watercolor on 11" x 15" Arches 140# Hot Press paper.

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Figure Drawing for May 27, 2010

30 Minute Pose

It's another figure drawing!  During this session, the model was draped with a semi-transparent, light-blue material.  It was an interesting effect and a bit tricky try and paint.  It requires lifting with some different art muscles, if you will.  Unfortunately, I was just getting to the point where I was starting to "get" how to get the cloth to look see-through in areas when time was called on the pose.  Oh, well...

This was done in watercolor on 9" x 12" Canson 100# Bristol Board.

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