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Figure drawing
Here's the first really nice product of this go-round at figure drawing classes (extended education offered by the university I work at, life drawing offered Saturday mornings all fall semester).
Putting in separate post from the kanzashi before and kittyspam after as it's rated a bit more highly than those two posts. Because the guy was nekkid. Although he had his back to me at the time. :)
The technique here is to take some soft charcoal and using one side of the stick lay down a rectangle that's a grey about halfway between the light color of the paper and black. Rub it lightly with a chamois (or paper towel, in my case) to set it in a bit. Then with your model posing under strong directional lights so you have interesting highlights and shadows, use your kneaded eraser to lift out highlights and your charcoal stick to lay in shadows. And your chamois/paper towel to even out ugly strokes or to 'erase' mistakes you make. :D
First time I've done this technique, too! Woo!
Putting in separate post from the kanzashi before and kittyspam after as it's rated a bit more highly than those two posts. Because the guy was nekkid. Although he had his back to me at the time. :)
The technique here is to take some soft charcoal and using one side of the stick lay down a rectangle that's a grey about halfway between the light color of the paper and black. Rub it lightly with a chamois (or paper towel, in my case) to set it in a bit. Then with your model posing under strong directional lights so you have interesting highlights and shadows, use your kneaded eraser to lift out highlights and your charcoal stick to lay in shadows. And your chamois/paper towel to even out ugly strokes or to 'erase' mistakes you make. :D
First time I've done this technique, too! Woo!
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Soooo, will this be good practice for drawing the Nekkid Renji & Rukia doujinshi?
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That's an interesting technique, and I don't think I've ever done it.
(And I was about to tell you about the Marine ROTC guy who posed for my art class long ago, but I think I've done so previously!)
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(Look who wants me to mess around with my ancient scanner! :P Well, I'll probably try, but not right now, of course. First I have to find the portfolio with my sketches in it, for one thing ... .)
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Actually, I'm going to take photos, I think. I found the portfolio, and the sketches are too big for my scanner anyway. But I just put my camera battery into the charger ... it was down to almost nothin'.
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Oh, he was gorgeous ... I felt like such a voyeur (voyeuse?). He was long and lanky and lean and mild-mannered, yet physical, and had wire-rimmed glasses. My nowadays mind has only just glommed onto the idea that with a little hair dye (his hair was light brown), he'd have made a splendid Cho Hakkai!
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There's a local model who I've seen in a couple of different classes, and once another classmate asked him how he got started modeling. Turns out he's a local actor who got cast in a production of Equus. He confessed to a friend that he was nervous about getting naked on stage, and his friend was also an art model and recommended doing some of that to get over his fear of being stared at while naked. And after the play, he continued the modeling to pick up the extra cash. :) (He was fairly wiry, with little fat on his body, and looked almost like a Minekura drawing.)
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How much time were you given to complete that much detail. I'm so slow, I don't have anything complete with a 20-30 minute pose.
Barbara
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