a drawing blog

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[artssie]

Lady Godiva (1890) Jules Joseph Lefebvre

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Figure sketch from life (Feb 2024)

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Gesture sketches done from life with several months in between... with visible improvement

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Sketched from life in Dec 23

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old life drawings

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20min sketch from life

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Life drawing sketch

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Oil painting practice.... trying to infuse it with some sort of form >:3

[ragefilledmonkey]

put the darks in to pop out the lights. make the darks thin and watery and the high lights impasto thick.

the bones and the muscles will make the form and contours.

[learningdrawing]

yeah,,,, it's just not so easy in practice x3 though i disagree about the paint needing to be watery for darks and impasto for highlights specifically; you *can* paint thinly without wateriness and make highlights without the paint being *that* thick of a gob. I mean, impasto is a whole look that one may not want in a painting. But ikwym about the principle of the thing. In this case the darks ended up thick bc i continued the next day when the paint had become tacky, and doing it thinly was... impossible lol (yeah i should've waited until it dried, but alas, impatience)

(that was also the 2nd dead layer bc the first one was terrible lol)

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Oil painting practice.... trying to infuse it with some sort of form >:3

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1hr 15min sketch from life on A2 size paper :3

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2min gesture sketches drawn from life

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40 min each :3

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20min figure sketch done from life. Eyeballed the proportions because i'm tired of measuring and i only had 20mins

Eta: turned out this was my 100th post on this blog :3

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