Portraits and (lots of) figures

[HylianMogget]

But first, a Gengar from a while back:

I kind of disappeared from the Internet (except for lurking ) since I've been studying abroad this semester. I've been taking an art class of sorts, too, though, so I've got quite a few drawings lying around, though mostly it's just quick figure drawing stuff. (...Also, I'm assuming I don't have to spoiler tag nude figure drawing, or do I? ).

Portrait from the model:

Some longer poses - nudity warning for all of these I guess:

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(The head is too small on this one, gah):

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Quicker poses/gestures (again, n00dz), spoiler taged since I dunno how much these actually interest anyone:

(charcoal)

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(ink and acrylic/watercolor pencil)

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And portrait of a girl from a painting class I took last semester; sorry for the image quality (cellphone camera, lol) - it's all I've got since she's got the actual drawing:

 

[Ⓐaron]

stuff looks great to me. Welcome back

@content warning, I'd say just put a nsfw warning in the thrad title. If you need me to do that because you hear this after the edit window is over let me know

 

[X-SOLDIER]

Agreed that they look really good.


(You could also just indicate it in the spoiler tags text for the ones that are approriate)

Example: [ spoiler=Image Title (N00dz) ] [ /spoiler ]

- would look like-

Spoiler: Portrait (Warning partial nudity)

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[HylianMogget]

Thanks!

I added a warning to the post and spoiler tag'd them all, but if anyone wants the thread title changed, too, then go for it.

 

[Cookie Monster]

Dude, these are amazing. I was pretty much doing the same thing last semester. I was taking three art courses, two of which dealt with the figure. Those were probably the most fulfilling and enjoyable courses I've ever taken.

I'll take a closer look at these when I get home.

 

[Tennyo]

Oh my, these are amazing.

 

[Hisako]

WHO HAS TWO THUMBS AND IS INTENSELY JEALOUS OF YOUR TALENT

<- THAT GUY

I really should stop avoiding the Creativity section.

 

[Cookie Monster]

Gotta say that drawing of Gengar looks vicious.

Also, you have some serious portrait skills. Faces still give me trouble. I'm also dying to try watercolor.

How long were the poses?

 

[HylianMogget]

Thanks for the comments!

A couple more (still figure drawing):

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(^lol, diamond hand)

@Thor: Yeah, figure drawing is lots of fun! I really like how I can get a tangible sense of progress from it. Like, my anatomy's still awkward sometimes and I need more practice with shading and stuff, but I definitely feel like I've improved. I really like portraits, but I can be kind of hit or miss with them, especially with getting a likeness down.

I forget the exact time for the poses (I always think that I should really just jot down the times as I go, but I never do ), but the longer ones were probably 15-20 minutes. The shorter ones vary - the first charcoal one was definitely 1 min gestures, the second sheet was probably 5 mins for each; some of the ink/watercolor pencil ones might've been around 5 mins but I'm not sure. I've found I really like water based stuff or ink for quick-ish figure sketches, but I'm really useless with it for anything else.

 

[Cookie Monster]

Great job man, your gestures are pretty solid. It usually takes people awhile to get the hang of doing those. How big are these drawings (as in what size is the paper)?

 

[DNA]

Love your shit. Make more por favor.

 

[gloriacollins]

wow you are really great keep it up...

 

[HylianMogget]

Thanks for the comments!

Some more of the same stuff; sorry about the bad image quality (ideally I would've tried to scan some of them, but I had to get rid of the actual drawings when the semester ended) - I used a standard digital camera in low light, so I desaturated and messed with the contrast a bit in PS, but there's still grain:

Some figures, probably around 5 minutes for these:

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^Texture on this one is weird because it was one of the last sheets on the board.

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^(an ink one that I don't think I posted in my first post).

These are more gesture-y (probably 2 mins), so some are clearly pretty awkward looking .

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And some 1 minute gestures (kind of hard to see due to the image quality and because it's the watercolor pencil thing):

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^I drew from left to right, so I think I got more comfortable at drawing these with each pose.

And for the last session there was a male model who did excellent but difficult to draw poses:

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How big are these drawings (as in what size is the paper)?

I think 11x17, I'm not entirely sure, but probably something around those dimensions.

 

[Terrafig]

Spectacular work! Those are some tricky poses.