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figure it out

Some figure drawings from work. Nothing over 3 minutes, ever.

some figure

I realized I didn't have much "structural" figure drawing for my portfolio, except for stuff from freshman year. To remedy this situation I headed over to fews for the night. I got the model's back a lot and finished poses quickly and ended up drawing the other guys there quite a bit. Those mega copic markers are serious fun.

fewsfewesfuse

Stole away to FEWS for a little bit (:

rewind

I Managed to get over to crealde over winter break for their sunday like drawing. Quick stuff in gouache.







This break I also painted with oils for the first time.

figure painting {digital}

I did these at the end of May when I got the chance to go to Crealde for one of their figure sessions. Top one is 5min and the other 2 are 20min, in painterX of course. Just getting back into this there's a lot to straighten out....

gold paint is fun

Here's some stuff from the past two portrait nights. I like finding a stylistic constraint/goal and working with that during those three hours. It's really nice to be able to explore these ideas over the course of multiples while at the same time being flexible and free by not being committed to a serious/legit concentration of work. For example the golden portraits were started with Scott's when I painted his beard in bronze gouache and I just kept on with it because I kept having left over paint and didn't want to waste it. I'd like to keep trying to explore different aesthetics, methods, colors, materials, and exaggerated drawing styles in particular. In the immediate future I'd like to do some stuff with soft pastels, mixed media/collage, and maybe even work with these as etchings... Gouache works pretty nicely in washes - keeps that color vibrancy up, and printmaking paper scraps are fantastic to work on, but not vellum, that stuff can not get wet; I still need to figure out what I can do with all my left over vellum.












Got some stuff from FEWS too. I'm trying to go to it just about every night for an hour as a break from work in the labs. I realized after last semester that I wasn't drawing nearly enough and was starting to lose touch with things. My observational and expressive skills have slowly shifted but I feel that my overall drawings have gotten a lot weaker as of late. I really need to pay close attention to things, get off the line again, and get back to being aware of mark making, the quality of which I've been severely neglecting...

more semiOld stuff

From last semester. Some stuff from portrait night, some sketchbook (pretty much the only legit sketchbook stuff I've done...), and a couple of drawings from when I visited Crealde over winter break.