In short poses (five minutes or less), it is difficult to lay down an ‘accurate’, final line for forms at a first go. The difficult poses are fun to draw but harder for the model to hold it still. In the five-minute drawing above, I used multiple ‘noodly’ lines, drawn lightly, (refer to page 18 in […]
Fashion drawings are fun. One of my favorite fashion illustrators is Rene Gruau. He knew human anatomy and was gifted with amazing craftsmanship. The exaggerations of the human proportions in his drawings and paintings aren’t boring – as is usually evident in many of the fashion illustrations these days. In fact, I don’t understand why […]
The drawing is fairly ruff – done with a charcoal stick. The focus was on the gesture and the drama of the lighting – though all the life-drawing sessions I attend, the resources for lighting the model are fairly limited. The model’s pose was great and she held it for two minutes.
This was a twenty minute pose. One of the reason I draw big on 18×24 inch drawing pads is to get the details of the anatomy. I will have to draw on larger sheets so I can fit the entire figure.
One of the advantages of top down design – a quick but reasonably accurate overall drawing with light marks denoting the landmarks on the body, then start adding details as the time permits, is that an unfinished drawing still might look good. I started adding details from head to toe after I lay in the rough […]