QUICK 5 minute mini figurative study #9!
Any requests for nude figure studies in this book? Let me know in the comments👇🏻✨👋🏻
I have to work on my spacing and measuring within this 3x5" format, because I am used to working larger, and I keep cutting the feet off! I redid this one to get the feet in, but only just.
I am passionate about participating in reshaping the way we see the female figure. It's important to me as a woman, and a visual creative, that I hel...
2021-12-11 02:55:22 +0000 UTC
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QUICK 5 minute mini figurative study #8!
This wee bound sketchbook is only up to eight studies, but will continue to be added to until all 40 odd pages are full, and then I'm thinking I'd like to make small prints available to collect, for nude figurative fans, and also making the entire original book available to purchase! Any requests? Let me know in the comments👇🏻✨👋🏻
Using the rectangular Carpenter style Generals Pencil in 2B here, I like to start super light in t...
2021-12-03 21:45:21 +0000 UTC
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Some more expressive, others more static, there's always things to notice and practice, whether it's the center line in motion and how to capture the expression of the body in space, or the way the twist of arms or legs accentuates the asymmetry in the musculature, with all those subtle , irregular 's' curves making the body dynamic.
In seated or extremely foreshortened poses, when we can't measure and check the proportions in an easy, from top to bottom way, namely because we can't see...
2021-11-28 21:04:36 +0000 UTC
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There will be no 3x5 Friday post for today, as we are under the final push completing new work for a solo exhibition installing Monday.
(I'll be making some posts on figurative story-telling process with some of these new pieces in the coming month)
3x5 Friday continues next week, to kick off December!
Have a lovely end of November, everyone.
2021-11-27 02:55:13 +0000 UTC
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Some creatives love hands, others hate them. A lot of us simply struggle to feel confident about them. Which camp are you in, at this point in your practice?
I frankly love hands, and I still get tricked by them, depending on the pose. I consider them the next most expressive structure in the body, after the face. Hands have the capacity to illustrate so much, visually, to further the story we are telling on the page, whether in great wrinkly detail or minimally, but powerfully, through...
2021-11-21 19:17:48 +0000 UTC
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Reminiscent of the classic in-person gesture poses art program session with the model, these next two chapters for November cover a range of the kinds of poses I typically hold for warm ups and short studies at the college.
Some more expressive, others more static, there's always things to notice and practice, whether it's the center line in motion and how to capture the expression of the body in space, or the way the twist of arms or legs accentuates the asymmetry in the musculature, w...
2021-11-21 19:02:01 +0000 UTC
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The nude with natural light is a favorite, for me. This set is vaguely Andrew Wyeth-esque, with it's window-pane shadow and muted, local color palette. Either work with the environment, or place the figure within your own referenced or imagined compatible setting, you call!
Notice the temperature shifts in the skin, throughout the exposed body. The torso and shoulders, closer to the shadow, looks more cool pink, picking up some of those gray blue/greens in the fabric, while the le...
2021-11-21 18:47:05 +0000 UTC
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For November I will be sharing a variety of clothed figurative gesture poses reminiscent of the classic in-person art program sessions with the model. These were inspired by and made as a continuation of my regular modeling for a local art college's anatomy for artists class, where we go through both expressive and more static poses to show the body in motion, tension, perspective, and contemporary posture.
These are great for basic study, familiarizing with or reviewing standard time ...
2021-11-20 03:54:42 +0000 UTC
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QUICK couple minute mini figurative study #7!
This one is less of a gesture and more of a tad more resolved figure sketch, but it's a study none the less, about five-ish minutes to put down. I found a free nude figure reference drawing video (with timed poses, if you need to practice that) on YOUTUBE. Honestly, just search "nude figure reference" and you'll get some good freebies released from reputable groups. You won't get endless variety, but it's good for different reference in a pi...
2021-11-20 03:36:16 +0000 UTC
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It's not always possible to get an art model for our practice or professional work. It's not always affordable (speaking as an art model, fair pay is important), or you might live in an area where there are no known models available, live in an inaccessible area, or do not have a studio space that would feel trust-worthy or comfortably accommodating for a model to visit. In any case, there is a FREE option commonly available as a back-up: yourself!
Even as both...
2021-11-14 22:37:25 +0000 UTC
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QUICK couple minute mini figurative gesture study #5!
Sultry, self-sovereign "s" curves. Women a fucking awesome.
It's relaxing to sweep and sway the rough, light mark-making of the graphite over the page, after the influence of real female shapes.
I have noticed I want more of these quick studies to be relaxed, boudoir-esque, honest, and more loose. Sometimes I am inclined to get too tight too soon, and I enjoy when I remind myself through the mark-making that I...
2021-11-13 02:55:38 +0000 UTC
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QUICK couple minute double page spread mini figurative gesture study #5!
The way a woman can be in her own moments, showering, bathing, being with herself, taking care of herself, raw and naturally, herself, is beautiful. We are fully ourselves when we are keeping our own company.
In this couple minute study, I focused on the open shapes of the shadows along the structures of the body, first. I created the rough marks of shadow along frontal bone, zygomatic, chin, hollow of the ne...
2021-11-06 01:47:48 +0000 UTC
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Figurative studies are always a worthwhile practice! This set is the first of many to come.
As stated in the Tier Two description, this closed session group includes nude figurative reference material for the use of visual artist practice and learning development.
It will be updated quarterly at minimum, but more often as support for this patreon grows!
As always, please cite the help and be courteous of all modeling. Whatever study or work you create from the re...
2021-10-31 18:07:45 +0000 UTC
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Chapter TWO continues washer-woman theme and concludes the month!
This could be a "washer woman", from various parts of the world, or maybe a lost love, drowned love concept, or it could be a spooky Autumn warning-story about ghouls or water-spirits that haunt the dark corners of the edge of the woods... Or it could serve as figure-in-motion or garment/fabric practice!
Render as you see fit, just remember to cite the help! Whatever study or work you create from the reference, alwa...
2021-10-31 17:47:38 +0000 UTC
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As a lead up to posting twelve new NUDE photo references for our 2nd tier group this Sunday, I'm sharing this preview page from my own 8x10" sketchbook of my own figure reference.
When I do figure studies that are more of the 5-10 minute range, they look something like this. I work with a broad carpenter style graphite pencil for chunkier mark-making that I find ideal to efficiently rough in shadow shapes, and to gesture in, with ease. If you want to give it a try, this one is gre...
2021-10-30 00:27:50 +0000 UTC
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QUICK couple minute double page spread mini figurative gesture study #4!
When the figure is partially obscured by fabric or supportive structure, it helps to find the anatomical markers of bony and fleshy landmarks in order to not get lost or disoriented in the construction process.
Here I relied on identifying the greater trochanter (protruding head of the upper leg bone, the femur, that creates a bump at the "hips", the widest point of the pelvis-leg joint), the angle of t...
2021-10-29 20:29:30 +0000 UTC
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QUICK mini figurative gesture study #3, on this double page spread including figure study #2!
These are just a couple minutes in the making, no fuss, no frills. In figure three you can notice I'm taking note of and focusing on the main bony landmark indicators of structure in the torso; so here, for the back, namely the spines of the scapula bones, markers along the spinal column, the PSIS of the pelvis, the sacrum, and the subtle flanking at the waist where we see the suggestion ...
2021-10-23 02:07:26 +0000 UTC
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Kicking off this first chapter with part one of our recent photo shoot, I wanted to offer a theme that could be incredibly diverse in direction or interpretation, but have a potential for reflecting the seasonal charm (northern hemisphere). And yes, I did get into the icy, wild river for a good thirty minutes!
This could be a "washer woman", from various parts of the world, actually, or it could be a religious moment with some of the reference where the sunlight came out nice and strong...
2021-10-18 17:00:56 +0000 UTC
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Coming up this week, our theme for the month is set with water and a flexible "washer woman" concept that can be interpreted in a myriad of ways, for illustration projects, fabric studies, lighting on the figure or of the figure in action practice.
Chapter ONE of October's dressed theme will share the first batch of reference imagery, next up!
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*Behind-the-scenes: This was a cold shoot! We went out into the forest on a 60 degree day, with high wind, in icy water. Wearing ...
2021-10-18 04:19:29 +0000 UTC
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Following up on the introduction of a new segment exclusive to this platform, here's page TWO of my NEW 3x5" sketchbook featuring QUICK mini figurative gesture studies! These are just a couple minutes in the making, no fuss, no frills. Also, I'm thinking of making this segment a Friday thing: 3x5 Friday!
*I promise I will be including feet in most if not all of these, I just didn't map this page out for the full head to toe figure (slaps own wrist).
The back story from the pu...
2021-10-15 23:56:10 +0000 UTC
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I'm sharing a side-by-side example of all the things I see early students doing wrong when it comes to tackling deeper understanding of the human form, specifically the portrait, and my own version of where to aim instead.
The top left portrait version is - granted - a bit exaggerated, and the purpose of this is to help make the following points more clear. I've left my own approach to the portrait study incomplete (bottom right), because it doesn't matter that I get i...
2021-10-10 18:05:15 +0000 UTC
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Introducing 3x5s, a segment for my patrons featuring this 3x5" bound sketchbook slated for quick, gestural figure studies from both life and imagination!
I'll be posting every page of this book as I go, sharing the way I go about QUICK studies with anatomy, line of action, and gesture, meant to be a way to warm up or to reset from the tightness we can get when we refine drawings with hyper-focus. These are meant to inject some loosening up into my practice, and if you w...
2021-10-07 01:07:25 +0000 UTC
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As always, these are open to interpretation; allow the illustrative story-teller within to take the reference where you feel so called. Whether she is a fantasy half-elf, or a Middle Earth Ithilien ranger, or a northern European fairy-tale princess in disguise, or an historical figure of note, I hope these are useful in developing engaging practice. What you take from the reference and how you add to it with your own resources is up to you.
October's next theme will be centered around t...
2021-10-05 04:00:39 +0000 UTC
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September's THEMED & COSTUMED European Huntress reference collection's Chapter TWO is now available!
As always, these are open to interpretation; allow the illustrative story-teller within to take the reference where you feel so called. Whether she is a fantasy half-elf, or a Middle Earth Dunedain, or a northern European fairy-tale princess in disguise, or an historical figure of note, I hope these are useful in developing engaging practice. What you take from the reference and how ...
2021-09-26 20:50:47 +0000 UTC
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September's THEMED & COSTUMED figure reference shoot is European Huntress, released in "chapters", starting with our first batch of twelve images for Chapter One.
The titles for each theme will say something of what I see in these photo shoots, but they are as always open to interpretation; allow the illustrative story-teller within to take the reference where you feel so called. Perhaps she is a fantasy half-elf, or a Middle Earth Dunedain, or a northern European fairy-tale princes...
2021-09-18 18:46:48 +0000 UTC
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Coming up - Our first theme for costumed, figurative reference includes this handmade traditional hickory long bow and historic, woodland garb. I'll be providing a series of multiple photo reference in smaller groups, all from the theme, throughout the month, only available for patrons!
2021-09-08 02:45:25 +0000 UTC
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