Drawing Session with Male Model

Process:
Tear sheet of butcher paper from roll and fold in half
This gives me two surfaces-front and back sides-and fits on the 18 x 24 Drawing Board
I select several color crayons to use and pick one for the rough sketch
I will add some other color to represent the environment or base structure for the figure
Detail comes from a 6B soft pencil
Poses varied from 4 minutes to 25 minutes.

Here are my sketches from a 3 hour session:

Figure Drawings from 12-14-2011

My Process:

-sketchbook 8.5 x 11 inches to draw in

-quick sketch with red-brown color crayola

-blue pencil for more detail or refined lines

-shading with pencil or crayola

-bottom plane or background with another color pencil or crayola

The initial crayola line is soft and can be blended for corrections. I ended up with warm and cool contrast with the red and the blue. The crayola is quick and easy for laying down soft color shapes. The color pencil also and gives more hard edges.

Figure Drawings from 12-06-2011

My blue pen ran out of ink. I switched tools. I used a Crayola, magnolia the color, for sketching in the basic shape and then various color pencils to clarify the lines and tones. The model took poses from 3 minutes to 20 minutes and I captured the drawings in my 8.5 x 11-inch sketchbook.

Figure Drawings from 11-29-2011

My drawing tool was a refillable BIC 537R pen with blue ink. Smooth clean lines were my focus in this session. My sketchbook the capturer, size 8.5 by 11 inches the dimensions.

The poses were from 3 minutes to 20 minutes.

Making Posters

I just finished reading a wonderful biography of Henri Toulouse Lautrec by Julia Frey. He created a sensation in Paris in the 1890's with his Lithographic Posters by simplifying the image into bold color shapes. In this week's life drawing class I found myself making posters too.

Life Drawing in Vienna in 1907

Here is an historical view of the same setup we continue today in our life drawing sessions.

The historical picture is of the Vienna Academy taken around 1907 and Egon Schiele is in the back on the left side.

We have available the same style benches and easels and draw from the model too in this time-honored method.

Dark to Light --- Complete Life Drawing book

DRAWING FROM DARK TO LIGHT

Exercise: Subtracting highlights

Objectives: Analyzing form through light and shadow; Creating drama by high contrast

In this drawing method you start with a dark value on your paper and work with an eraser to create highlights and draw the model's pose

This is a good exercise and teaches you to see in a different way

Start by putting a dark value on the entire paper. Look at the highlights on the model and draw them with the eraser.