[Lunatique]

These are some pieces from recent figure drawing sessions. They range from 20 minutes to one hour poses. The paintings are in acrylic, and the drawings are in charcoal.








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[MeatyCheesyBoy]

Man, I'm at a loss as to why people aren't commenting on these. They're great. <BUMP>

My current employer holds life drawing sessions every week. I should probably start going.

Keep up the good work.

[Painted Melody]

Beautiful portrait!, and your figure drawings are nice too.

Maybe I am bias, but I always enjoy when 'academic' work like this is posted... I still find it very beautiful

~PM

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[Lunatique]

Finally, I figured out how to get the images to appear. The tags are case sensitive....

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[Wyatt Turner]

good traditional stuff man! I haven't drawn a still life in so long. I can't really even remember. it must have been since High school or so. I must try and find a class to hone my skills. You did a very well done job on the top one and the bottom. But the dude in the middle is a little cartoonish, but lacks something.

well anyhoo keep them coming

y@

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[Elijah]

these are very nice, I think the one on the bottom is rednered beautifully, but you might want to think about some flow, like lines that smoothly move your eye across the page, you should look at andrew loomis or glen vilpu.

[Lunatique]

Well, when you only have about 10~20 minutes to do these, it's a struggle jus to capture the pose, let alone trying to put some flow into your drawing... If I had more time, I'd probably design the composition more. Also, these are from life, so I can't really change the pose or anything since there are other people in the session drawing with me.

Man, I love Loomis too. Don't we ALL want to draw like him?

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[Elijah]

just because these are from life doesn't mean that you have to draw like a photograph,
It is better to anylise than to to copy.
I have been taught that speed is very important, but That teacher was never made it in the professional world so I am not sure how valid my opinions are.

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[Akolyte]

Damn, the first girl looks great. Nice ;D

[Lunatique]

Thanks for the kind words.

I guess these are kinda "academic," since drawing from life is the one of the most basic training that artists of any style and genre should go through and know very well.

All the good comic book/animation artists I know who work in unique styles have gone through this, or do it on a regular basis, whether in a formal or casual settings.
There's a misconception that if you work with a 'cartoony' style, or does lots of fantasy/sci-fi, you don't need to learn this stuff. Well, I'm sure if we did a survey with all the extremely awesome artists that hangs out here(Spooge, Seeg..etc), they'll all say the same thing: you can't over emphasize the importants of basic training(formally or on your own), and it applies to all disciplines of art.

Even though this is a digital art forum, I really think there's nothing wrong with posting traditional stuff, since a lot of the digital work posted here really has far more in common with tradtional work than your typical digital stuff. Your work in traditional will help your digital, and vice versa.

It's just a matter of using a tablet or paint brushes.



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