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This is something i worked on, on and off, for a couple months actually, just adding bits and pieces here and there. I found this giant picture of a bathing suit lady on the street and added the other stuff. The shiny parts are chrome spray paint. I built the frame myself and covered it in this cool print paper I got from a chinese art supply store. (The below photo is a url that links to a larger version). 
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smallmouth posted:This is neat and I love stuff like this. Sharpest Crayon posted:This is hella cool, but don't tease me like this. I need to know what is that skeleton thinking. Is it SWAG? Is it RAD? Whatever it is, it's in all-caps, right?
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Mar 18, 2017 02:29
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SOme fun loose sketches from life   
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Apr 16, 2017 22:56
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drawing in the same way for months, maybe years, with little progress, possibly taken some steps back  blah 
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Jun 6, 2017 03:47
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A string of really good models at the workshop i go to has made me feel more confident about my life drawing, though I'm still itching to improve. Although I have more free time than ever, my attention is pulled in many different directions and it is hard to focus on this one skill to work on, especially when I am back to having fun at my current level.     quote:Side note, does anyone ever get "iffy" when they describe an aspect of their work in a positive way, if that makes sense? Like when I said that the shading's coming along good, I get this paranoid feeling that I'm coming off as pretentious saying that I guess, heh. I try to avoid judging my stuff on an objective level and just focus on relative success. Am I doing better than last year? Is the shading better than my last attempt? Am I feeling good about what I'm doing? It doesn't really matter though, my post above is kind of narcissistic too, just rambling journal-style. I like to write something along with the pictures I'm posting is all.
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Jul 31, 2017 16:44
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Neon Noodle posted:These are terrific. Thank you all for the nice comments.
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Aug 1, 2017 18:24
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Awesome, love the colors. I just sketched this self-portrait like 30 minutes ago. Mechanical pencil. Trust me that it looks very much like me, kinda surprised tbh. Not the most flattering but by far the most accurate self-portrait I've done. 
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Aug 14, 2017 04:15
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Life drawing from earlier this evening with a fantastic model.   (Her butt looks hella wonky in the thumbnail below, didn't quite finish shading it I guess - looks better in the full size pic actually)  And some test sketches for a bigger project i'm working on 
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Aug 27, 2017 03:33
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sigma 6 posted:I like these a lot. Thanks! Stay tuned. Working on something cool based on those sketches.
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Aug 31, 2017 01:06
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I bought this cool  Otherwise I was not that inspired by the life drawing model this week so i kind of just fooled around  
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Sep 3, 2017 16:37
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Here's a self-portrait done with mechanical pencil.  This was one of these instances that i love about portraiture: as I'm drawing it doesn't look anything like me, I'm like 98% done and there's barely any resemblance. Then I add a line on the cheek, a couple lines on the nose, and boom it looks just like me. Those little subtle touches that bring it to a real likeness.
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Sep 12, 2017 03:25
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Franchescanado posted:I like painting scenes from horror movies. I did this one on Sunday during Irma. Love this movie Sketching sketching sketching, trying to find a way of drawing value that feels natural. Everything mechanical pencil. I know it's weird but I keep coming back to it...   
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Sep 16, 2017 05:22
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Sep 20, 2017 02:32
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smallmouth posted:^^^ this is really good. You might add some shading to the whites of the eyes so they look less flat. Thank you, that's a good tip, eyes and teeth I always tend to draw less detail than i see for fear of making it look weird. I like your life drawings too, coming at it in a pretty different way  it's cool, lends itself much more to painting. I'm just obsessed with lines.
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Sep 22, 2017 01:28
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Life drawing got weird  and weirder   
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Sep 24, 2017 17:57
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Sharpest Crayon posted:Oh no, Leisure Suit Larry finally bit the big one Thank you for your comments, it's very fun to draw nice and loose like that. EDIT: Did another drawing (from photo ref) of an ex. Part of an ongoing series "Portraits of Women I No Longer Speak To" =P  Small inconsistencies but it's instantly recognizable as the person it's supposed to be so I am happy. I've noticed significant progress in this sense over the course of the summer. Radio du Cambodge fucked around with this message at 22:41 on Sep 25, 2017 |
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Sep 25, 2017 15:54
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Some loose doodles  And a longer go at a portrait of a girl off a soft-core porn site, tried a kind of challenging facial expression, didn't quite get a likeness (she is scrunching her face and sticking her tongue out in the actual photo) but it was fun. 
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Feelin pretty mediocre the last few life drawing sessions I been to    Krispy Wafer posted:The one I attend was started by some local photographers, so they hire print-style models instead of the traditional figure models. At first I thought it was pretty cool getting beautiful women to pose, but hard skinny bodies are more difficult to draw and I keep hoping they'll bring in a chubby hairy lady like we used to have in art class. You know, mix it up some. Interesting, i find skinny women the easiest to draw. Skinny young men the 2nd easiest. The session I used to go to was somehow related to a local university, $10 for 3 hours, and for some reason they often had ballet dancers (of both sexes) as models - those are the best if you ask me, great musculature, fantastic sense of pose and ability to hold still
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Oct 26, 2017 02:38
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Not very inspired by this model but i like this one profile I got: Otherwise...  He kept falling asleep during this pose and drooping his head, so the neck/head looks kinda off from the rest  And this pur e contouring I did to warm up, on the right edge here, using a graphite rectangle, I thought was kinda cool 
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Nov 6, 2017 02:45
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Wowporn posted:I dunno why people hate smooth surfaces for drawing so much, maybe it helps that I always wear a smudge glove when using tablet monitors, even my iPad Pro, since it helps my skin not catch and stutter on the glass which I’m sure isn’t as much of a problem on a textured surface. Yo I just thought of an idea for finding life drawing sessions. They don't post that often on craigslist, but models sometimes do. Even if they are weirdos, they probably have some idea of the local classes and workshops. I just searched "figure drawing" on your craigslist and found this posting where he says "I am a regular at pretty much all of the local colleges and art schools as well as some drawing co-ops" like maybe you could just email him and ask for some info.
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Nov 7, 2017 01:11
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a hole-y ghost posted:it's good he did! this is great Thanks the model thought so too, he took that one with him at the end. Here's a sketch i just did from a softcore site, kinda bummed about the hair and eyes but it was fun and I'm digging these woodless charcoal pencils  "contemplating the infinite"
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Nov 7, 2017 04:18
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Another resource for free life modeling is your significant other haha. Or, if you are in the dating world, it is a good way to take the relationship up a notch. I'm single-and-looking right now and I almost always do a sketch of their profile or portrait after a couple dates, it's great practice and a little unique and an opportunity to compliment their appearance in a genuine and demonstrable way. I've only done this once (and she had some modeling experience already) but if they're open to it you could even ask for a full-on nude life drawing session at your home (not recommended as a first-date). Tinder for figure drawing models lol well why not? There are all sorts of ways to draw naked people if you keep an open mind. EDIT: Krispy Wafer posted:I like those knuckles. Thanks! I find it pretty tricky to draw women's hands, keeping a balance between definition and grace, I think I skirted the line here but I agree they came out well. Just gotta keep the shading real gentle I guess. Radio du Cambodge fucked around with this message at 18:30 on Nov 7, 2017 |
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Some recent life drawings   Some warmups I liked, feels like it's been a while since I JUST focused on contours  
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Franchescanado posted:I do! But when I try to go through the proper ways, like the Loomis method or how Proko teaches it, they all look stilted, stiff and bad. I haven't had anything click for me yet, so it's an uphill struggle. I've tried to look for classes, but the art teachers of my city apparently refuse to work past 6PM or on weekends. I've never heard of Proko but I've skimmed a Loomis book and found it way too prescriptive for me, with the line-skeleton frames and ideal proportions and everything. Personally I think that whole approach is super unintuitive and generates stilted drawings because it's adding an extra level of analysis to the observation of the raw figure that sucks all the life out of it. That's my own 2 cents, I'm sure it works for many people since it's such a famous resource but I could never get the hang of it. It's a stylistic thing too of course, I'm pretty loose with anatomy and rarely even try to sketch a model's whole body. I think if the goal is to get vivid and lifelike figure drawings, the only resource I'd recommend is Drawing on the right side of the brain, since it focuses on contours and on observation - the verve of the human body comes from its contours, the realism comes from observation, and you end up sketching a lifelike figure with energy. If the goal is to generate human figures from your imagination, the stick-and-ball proportion-measurement approach might lend itself more to that. But as a basis for drawing from life I've found it totally uninspiring.
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exmarx posted:life drawing Whoa looks like a badass life drawing sesh. the drawings themselves are a little scratchy but it kinda works. Here's some of mine  
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Wowporn posted:step 2 in the process, am thinking about doing the real internet thing and making this into a shirt design if I like it enough when it's done Lookin' good. But painful though, my MPC1000 is one of my closest friends  Pretty productive life drawing session this week, dancers are the best models:     Some loose doodles:   The last one I have to give credit for the skull design which i ripped off from this tattoo artist: https://www.instagram.com/p/BcLGdNmnrhj And the hand reference is this: https://www.instagram.com/p/BcQc4v2DtyH
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Dec 10, 2017 19:46
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The Dregs posted:You guys gave me some really excellent criticism on my last portrait, please give me some more on these if you're inclined. Well some issues I can see right off the bat, too much outline on the lips, not enough definition in the noses, the thickness and darkness of the lines in both seem kind of random. I'm at the library due to power-outage induced WIFi failure so I don't really have the time to expand but I hope that's at least a little helpful! Here are some sketches from this weekend's life drawing session with one of my favorite models.    
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smallmouth posted:Excellent work! Hey thanks! Here's a self portrait I did last night, probably about 45 minutes??? Hard to say, I love getting totally zoned out drawing. Some weirdness in the mouth there but it looks like me for sure 
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thank you. Here's a sketch I just did from an instagram picture. Seeing it in small format makes me see a lot of proportion problems. Love this photo though, wanted to try to capture the weight of the baby, and how the his bottom smooshes a bit as he's weighing down her arm but I don't think I quite nailed it. Was fun to draw though. Look like I inadvertently babyfied the woman's face a bit too. EDIT: Reference photo: https://www.instagram.com/p/BbLN4ORFt9E  Radio du Cambodge fucked around with this message at 04:07 on Dec 30, 2017 |
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Jake Snake posted:Very very cool contour drawing. I think it's pretty accurate to the reference photo, and I did get a sense of weight from how you drew the baby's bottom. The only thing is his right cheek is a little too elongated. I didn't notice anything wrong with the woman's face until I read your post and compared it to the reference photo. It looks like you just gave her more of an upturned nose, which looks baby-like, but plenty of adults have them. Thanks. Yeah I see what you mean, I think I misplaced some contours in the butt and in her face due to the shadows.
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Jan 1, 2018 20:57
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Did some quick sketches this evening trying to come up with something I can maybe submit to a zine real quick by friday. This is my hand supposedly holding a little mirror  This is my ex-girlfriend's pussy 
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Jan 4, 2018 03:11
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Wowporn posted:“She sent you a private message of a picture of herself while you were dating, she totally deserves to have it shown to everyone now that you broke up” like, k. Maybe I am missing some important background context? I would bounce pretty quick if I started dating a guy and they did that to their ex OK I don't want to get into a huge debate but she didn't sext me anything, I took the photo myself, and it's a charcoal sketch anyway. No one should post actual photos of someone's naked body without permission that's hosed up. There's nothing identifiable and it's a unique image I drew with my own hand. Pretty much everything I post in this thread is sketches of naked people whose permission I don't ask to post (my own personal sketches of) their naked bodies online. She's not dumb, I don't hold a grudge against the girl. I just wanted to draw a detailed vulva up close and decided to use an actual photo I took myself rather than some touched up porn or a medical document. I probably shouldn't have even mentioned whose it is, I just thought it sounded funny to state it so matter of fact like that. here's a doodle just for some content 
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Nice! All good stuff!! Pretty mediocre life drawing sesh this week    
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Life drawing   Shouldn't there be a new thread for the new year
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