Figures - Acrylic Paint

Life Drawing II

Acrylic

I finally got a chance to create figure paintings. I've always wanted to try but had no idea where to begin. For this assignment, we used our sketches from earlier in the week to paint themI watched a bunch of tutorials at first about how to blend skin tones properly and which base colors to use. The one I subscribed to that I really liked the most was from an artist named Eric T. Francis. I hadn't heard of him before, but I'm really glad I found him in my search!

I have no idea why I was so apprehensive about painting. I had a ton of fun once I got into it and started to understand a little bit how to get the right tone. Not bad for a first attempt at painting a figure with acrylics! I'm pretty happy about this!! I will definitely use it more and paint some landscapes in the future.

I found the figures on this Gesture & Figure practice tool website. It's awesome!

Let me know what you think!

Shiny Text Effect

Computer Illustration I
Photoshop text effect: Shiny text effect

Figures - Pastels

Class: Life Drawing II
Medium: Soft Pastels

Sketches - charcoal figures

More random sketches I did for class. I think, and my teacher agrees, that my proportions are getting better as I go along. I just need to keep at it!

Figure - Pen & Ink

Life Drawing II
Micron 0.07mm black ink pen.

I should have used a brush tip ink pen for this assignment, but was unable to find on in my area at the time I needed it. I like the turnout, but it took a looooong time to get all the hatching in place, haha!

Figures - Color Pencils

Life Drawing II:
3 Figure drawing in color pencils (18x24 in.)

It's really great getting back to my artistic roots. I really enjoy drawing, and this time around I found I enjoyed it a lot more than I remember. The last time I drew strictly with color pencils was my senior year in high school in early 1999, when I learned how to blend colors.

I should draw more often to improve my proportions and my line weight confidence, but it's getting there :)

1 - Monochromatic Primary (one color).
Within the limits of primary colors, I could only really do this drawing in either blue or red. I chose red because there is a lot of tension in the pose and it is not very relaxed. I think the red color picks up on that intensity very well and and allowed me a wide range of tones.

2 - Complimentary Colors (opposites on the color wheel).
This set of colors was a bit more difficult to chose. I wanted to keep a color scheme in tune with the pose once again, but I couldn't very well use blue and yellow (for obvious reasons). I ended up choosing yellow-green and red-purple. I did a lot better than I thought I would on the model's face, but there is still work to be done here too, of course. Someday I'd like to redo this drawing in an analogous blue set of colors.

 
3 - Analogous w/ One Primary (next to each other on the color wheel).
I chose blue, purple, and red-purple for this final drawing. It took a little more time to complete because I constantly went over the tone with the different colors to make sure they were all visible. I think I will do without the figure's outline next time, or at least in a much more subtle tone. In fact, it may work better with a different set of analogous colors all together... I'll try this again too someday