Study from my sketch book
The artist journey is full of peaks and valleys. Most of year 2010 I felt I was in a valley where I don't see any notable improvements. Since my last blog, I've been spending time doing studies from photos. Even though most artists would argue that there are many deficiencies drawing from photos, I think it provided me the time to really work on what I've learned during the year. I am pretty happy with my recent progress and feeling like I'm heading in the right direction again.

First of all, the life drawing sessions really paid off. I find drawing from photos so much easier since the model doesn't take breaks and the model always stays in the same place :-). I find I can get a sketch down much faster than the life session. Second, I'm beginning to see the figure differently. Instead of just seeing shapes and values, I am paying more attention to the form. I am understanding why Jacob Collins painstakingly turn the forms to show the roundness of the forms. I am also spending more time looking at the values in relationship to other parts of the figure. Lastly, my motto of the year is don't go faster than I can be accurate and speed will come from practice (from Susan Lyon). This gave me huge freedom of not having to finish the entire figure. Getting a beautiful partially finished drawing is more important to me than getting the whole figure finished.

I've started a sketch book while I was on vacation. The drawings are done mostly with carbon pencil. I have been practicing in my sketch book rendering the round form. It's is a exercise that I need to find more time to do.

 


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Nice one !! like the hand shape , its all about shape and the turning form...
-- Sandra , 12/25/10



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