learning to draw
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Two full figures, charcoal and pastel drawing
Using here willow charcoal, conte crayons, and white Rembrandt pastels on construction paper. I wanted to keep white only for highlights, but kind of went overboard. Need to practice my values 🙂
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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-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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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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Venus, charcoal sketches
Sometimes I forget how short these 3-minute poses are, and concentrate too much on one particular part of the figure. As the result, I usually end up with armless Venuses xD
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Female gesture poses, charcoal drawing
There used to be a time where I’d be unable to tell which model I drew. It was a generic figure and could have been anyone. So I’ve set my goal to make the figures more recognizable and individual, at least to me. I can tell the person from there drawings, and that makes me…
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Short poses, charcoal drawing
More gestures of the same model. I wonder if I should re-draw the ones I like and try to develop them more 🤔
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Quick gestures, charcoal drawing
This is a example of getting distracted mid-pose and not finishing it 😀 The other two gestures are ok ^^ These were done on rough newsprint, I think it’s my favorite paper so far for warm-up drawings.
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Two similar poses, charcoal drawing
Every now and then, it feels like the model does two identical poses in the row until you walk around and check the weight shift.
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Multi-pose, charcoal drawing
Sometimes the poses differ so much, and I think nothing of it while drawing… However, looking back at it later, I see just hilarious scenes and have a lot of questions as to what’s going on there? This probably was a cool dance party until one of them lost their airpod xD
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Tri-figure, charcoal drawing
Whenever I start the drawing sessions with short poses, I just draw them on the same page. If the pose wasn’t working out, I just erase it. There’s simply no time to switch paper sheets with 1-minute poses 😀 However, sometimes these gesture drawings turn out to be pretty dynamic and interesting. They’re also a…
