Here is a before and after shot of a life drawing done from a model. I hardly ever finish a whole drawing with the model sitting in front of me. I like to have some really dark areas, and those take up a lot of time that could be better spent on other areas of the drawing. I think it’s good practice to figure out tones intellectually from time time to time, instead of only observationally.
Unfinished drawing done from a model
Life drawing touched up later
I’ve moved some content from my other site, brokenarted.com to this one. A few articles are on this site now, including ‘Top 10 Figure Drawing Tips‘ and ‘Using milk as a Drawing Fixative.’ The links are under the ‘Art Tutorials’ section on the sidebar.
Top 10 Life Drawing Tips
Chris Hondros Tribute Painting
Green Revolution
This is a commission I have been working on for the last several months. It is based on Chris Hondros’ photojournalism in Egypt. Mr. Hondros was tragically killed on assignment in Libya in April 2010. This one has a ways to go before being finished, but you get the idea. I’ll be doing several oil glazes to build up nice, deep colors over the chalky white areas. I’ll post more photos and a bit more about the concept when I finish the painting.
Drawing on vellum
I’ve been doing most of my drawings for screen printing on vellum these days. Vellum is basically really nice tracing paper and takes the ink nicely while still being transparent enough to expose with. The image here is black ink on vellum, on top of a two color screen print. I like that the drawings look good by themselves and are a more direct method to transfer to a screen than using a digital print from a scan or photo of a drawing.
Here is a handful of interesting photos from LIFE’s collection of artists and models. Click on the enlarge button to go to LIFE’s website for the captions.
