Last lifedrawing post of the year! I know you guys probably get sick of seeing this stuff, but it's more to help me monitor progress. I find these sessions fulfilling because they present some very interesting and specific problems to be solved within very narrow timeframes. Concrte goal, concrete deadline. Before I can get bored, there's always a new pose, a fresh challenge. What's more, I'm completely shut off from all other distractions and demands for the duration, so I tend to think more and do more. Plus I get to listen to all the music I've been neglecting, so double-win.
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Comparing it to stuff I did at roughly the same time
last year, I'd say my shit is definitely zippier now...less rigid and static. I owe that to
Drawn To Life Vols. 1 & 2 by Walt Stanchfield, who preached analysis and communication over crosshatching and copying. Dude is definitely the best teacher I never had, and his essays will be at my bedside for years to come.
6 comments:
Love it! Im always inspired by your stuff.
awesome. please don't stop posting these.
I'll never get sick of these life drawings from you. I find them very inspiring personally, as well as a learning experience. Those Walt Stanchfield lectures also look awesome; gonna have to get my hands on those!
You have progressed a ton over the last year. The most recent work retain your style but also show a greater knowledge of mass, shape, and gesture. It helps that you seem to have a good venue and models at your disposal!
Ya, I feel the same way about posting life drawing - isn't it like a musician posting a youtube vid of them doing scales? I guess if they were doing scales naked, then it would be fine :)
so anyway! keep posting - cuz we keep looking at it!
question! - so how did you get that last one on the lower right? was that an exercise, rotating the figure in your head - or were you up on a balcony or something?
Marctaro -- Yes, it was a mental exercise. I'll sometimes pop the "camera" in a place other than where I'm sitting if viewing angle is stale and I can't move.
Vinod -- Yeah, there's lifedrawing sessions practically every day of the week somewhere in Austin. The models get a bit repetitious, but admission is cheap.
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