Figure Drawings
Here are a few if the keepers tonight. I’m trying to push myself with my figure drawing, trying to stay cognizant of a few key things when I work:
- Feel the weight of the figure rather than draw the lines that define it. Howard Pyle once famously said “Don’t paint the sleeve, be the arm.” This means to be empathetic to weight and tension when drawing and draw how that feels. I know it seems weirdly esoteric, but keeping this in mind helps me a lot when drawing.
- Design the figure. It’s not enough to simply translate what you see; choose points of interest and give them the love they need to be focal points. I tend to use the pinker parts of the body to create a rhythm running down the figure: Face, nipples/elbows, hands, knees, feet. Because these parts have more capillaries near the surface of the skin, you can throw red in them and they feel right.
15 min pose
15 min pose
10 min pose
5 min pose
Some Figure Drawings
It’s been too long since I updated this duder here, I bet there are a few of you out there wondering what I’ve been up to here in KCMO. I’ve been drawing a hell of a lot of figures! Here’s some of them.
20 min, Nupastel on paper
1 min gesture
There are more after the jump!
TAD Workshop KC, 2010
Last Friday marked the end of the first ever workshop put on by my school, The Art Department. This event was absolutely amazing, and it was a shame it wasn’t better attended because people missed out on a ton of awesome classes, crits and demos. The list of visiting and participating artists is hard to believe: Gary Kelly, Mark English, John English, Brent Watkinson, George Pratt, C.F. Payne, Anita Kunz, Jon Foster, Sterling Hundley, Andrew Jones, and Francis Vallejo.
In the last month I’ve forged personal relationships with some of my heroes and had some amazing one-on-one experiences. I’ll be posting more anecdotes in the future, but I’ll start with a little story about George Pratt. Read the rest of this entry »
Music To Make Shit To
This post is inspired by Sarah (@lilluxe on twitter) who dug the Flying Lotus remix of Aphex Twin ( here ) and wanted some more good beat music. These all have enough swagger to scrunch your nose and get your head bobbing. Read the rest of this entry »
