This is a collection of Oksana’s charcoal drawings and sketches. It exists to document progress in her studies of figure drawing. She started studying figure drawing at the end of 2017.
Figure Gesture Drawings
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Female figure, charcoal drawing
I’m trying out all kind of materials as I learn to draw. This is a rough construction paper, and it has a charming feel to it. It certainly isn’t the best paper for serious work since it doesn’t even photograph that well. For example, those wavy wrinkles are almost invisible in real life. However, it’s
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Two 10-min poses, charcoal drawing
These are 10-minute charcoal sketches. I think if I had more time, I’d soften those outlines a bit.
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Two short poses, charcoal drawing
Okay, now you know what half-n-half looks like 😂 I think these are 7-minute sketches 🙂
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Two-figure sketch, charcoal drawing
– I’m leaving and I’m taking all of the charcoal with me! – What?! Butt, you have to stay! 🤣 I swear, I don’t plan these scenes, they just happen xD
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Dark figure, charcoal drawing
I’ve noticed that on many occasions, I make my drawings too dark from the start. Not sure how to go about correcting this, I guess I need to press lighter on the charcoal stick? ^^; Or maybe I should try some value studies. Any tips?
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Runaway, charcoal drawing
Step through the mirror into the whole new world, where you can build anew.
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Dynamic gesture, charcoal drawing
I really love the sketch on the left, it’s turned out very dynamic. I think I could make an awesome drawing based on it. Some day… 🙂
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Two-pose female, charcoal drawing
Pretty sure these are 20-minutre poses, but most likely I got distracted during the first one. Anyway, I like how both of these turned out. I think it’s time to set new goals for the direction of my art, and maybe for a lengthy post in my blog about how I started 😀
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Short pose two-figure, charcoal drawing
I enjoy the geometric feel those extended lines add to the overall figure. Sometimes charcoal stick is bent, so it makes two parallel marks at the same time with only one movement of a hand. Quite often it results in a happy accident rather than an unwanted mark.