I realised I never photographed these drawings I made during my last figure drawing session in May 2023. Looking back, I think they are some of the best I’ve made last year!
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Figure Drawing @ The Artist Guild
Back in June I attended a figure drawing session organised by The Artist Guild. This session featured Lucid Belle cosplaying as Cammy (Street Fighter 6), a nice change from all the nude models! I never came around scanning the drawings, here they are at last!
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Figure Drawing March
I tried drawing digitally on my Ipad this time, inspired by my friend Frank. Unlike I thought initially, it isn’t really faster than drawing on paper: if you’ve got 5 minutes to draw a pose, a lot of seconds are lost by switching between tools. With longer poses, I try to be mindful of not adding too much detail to the drawing, they’re usually better with less.
Figure Drawing February
Figure Drawing January
A new year, new figure drawings! I continued experimenting with oil pastel like I did in November, but I needed some time to get back into it. That’s why most drawings are in the same line as last year.
I feel the most interesting drawings of this session where the ones where I used the strokes of the oil pastel to suggest form. I think I could go much further in layering different colours, but the model is only standing still for five or ten minutes. Maybe I need a model that doesn’t move at all to try that?
Figure Drawing November
As I feel more and more comfortable drawing in graphite, I’m looking for new techniques and materials to use in these figure drawings. I couldn’t find any tips or suggestions online, so I brought a material I hadn’t used in a long time: oil pastels.
At first I used them the same way I use my graphite stick: lightly blocking out the forms and gradually adding lines, forms and details pressing harder to get more contrast. Things got more interesting when I used multiple colours layered over each other, something I’d like to try more next time!