Life Drawing

I’ve drawn this person several times and I’m not sure if I have ever drawn her well. For some reason I find her figure very hard to draw well. It is quite interesting though, how some figures are easy for me and others are hard.

Life Drawing: warmup
warmup

I beginning to be able to recall more of the human body from memory, as you can see by my simplified figures on my warmup page.

Life Drawing: 1.5 minute gestures
1.5 minute gestures
Life Drawing: 5 minute poses
5 minute poses
Life Drawing: 15 minute pose
15 minute pose
Life Drawing: 15 minute pose
15 minute pose

Trying out some conte crayon on my newsprint and it didn’t go so well.

Life Drawing: 30 minute pose
30 minute pose

I’m beginning to think that when shading the forms, less is more. I tend to make every thing kinda hairy looking rather than turning the form well.

Life Drawing: 30 minute pose
30 minute pose

Her torso was in a great position to see many bony landmarks and muscles but I was struggling to shade the forms well. I really need to work on this because this drawing could have went much faster and turned out really well if I could just turn the form with value easily.

Life Drawing: 30 minute pose
30 minute pose

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