[Matthew]

Hello

We had our first Life-drawing class today in my school which started this tuesday. We are gonna have life-drawing one day every week and I am really looking forward to all those already, I have also seeked my way to an evening course in life-drawing which also starts soon.
I am telling you guys life-drawing was the most funny I have done in years and one can really feel how effective it is for proportions and everything.

We had a male model today and most of the poses was 2-3 minute poses so you had to find some check-points early in the progress and then try to draw away with dynamic in the poses.
I selected a few of the ones I made today, I guess I made 30-40 of them all in all.
I can fully recommend to all beginners to start drawing from life models cause it gives both inspiration and you can�t really focusing on anything but the model.
Also C&C is very appreciated in my life-drawings here and if anyone of you guys is doing life-drawing and recognize some beginners errors feel free to tell me. :)

I am most satisfied with the first one.







thank you for watching.
Matthew

[varg]

Hey Matthew! it looks good! I can realy see the fire in your fingers on these ones...Realy like the first one!


ps:Vilken skola g�r du p�? snyggt jobbat!
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[Citizen Cow]

[spline]

Nice drawings...

Have you started at the art school Paletten?

I went there

[Mangesan]

Looks great! They all look great, but my favourite is the last one! Seems like a great way of learning...
You'll do great there...

C'ya...
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[eyalyab]

they all look great. this is good practice.
i might be mistaking but i think you have all their necks short, but then again, since they are all the same model, his neck might just be short itself

[Probustion]

nice work matthew, and congrats on your first life drawing class. i'm taking life drawing classes myself soon(starting in october) and i feel really excited, and a little funny too, haven't done anything like this before.

if i may give a bit of advice: i think you should use as few lines as possible to suggest the shape, and if the shape and proportions are right, then go on shading it. the benefits of charcoals is that you can mess around and smudge it as you wish. i love it because of this flexibility
i could be wrong, i haven't really drawn much under time-pressure yet. so if anyone wants to correct me, please do so. we all have to learn from this.
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[Isric]

haha, those are matthew's alright
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[Probustion]

haha
mind you cause matthew is taking over soon
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[Isric]

oh no, i'm not laughing at him, it's just always great to recognize someones style in their life drawings
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[Probustion]

sorry Isric, misinterpreted that. and sorry matthew, i'm stuffing up your thread
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[AndyT]

Great Matthew!
I like the first one most too.
To me the images didn't look like 2-3 minute poses.

Keep it up ... and have fun
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[Max]

Well done Matthew!
Especially the first one is great.
30 or 40 you say? man, you will improve so fast

I'd realy like to take such life drawing classes too.
I think I am not old enough...is 16 okay?
I'd be the only one at my age in such a class...maybe...well

Post more of those skeches.
Good luck. and enjoy school

[Matthew]

Hey guys

Thank you so much for all the response here, I am glad you wanted to look at my life-drawings too. :)

varg - Thank you, Jag g�r p� Lunnevads Folkh�gskola.

Citizen Cow - Hey nice to see you in this thread, yeah I know you guys have said to me about Life-drawings and anatomy, I am into that stuff now, still thou more bad speedy�s from me will probably be seen from me in the speedy, or maybe the speedy�s will be better too ..hehe. :) Thank you.

spline - hey, thank you there, I am at Lunnevads Folkh�gskola at the moment but I hope to get into Konstfack or something in a couple of years when I have finished the one I am at now.

Mangesan - hey Mangesan thank you for your support, thank you.

eyalyab - Actually he had a short neck as it seemed when he posed or he could tuck in his the neck in some way, hard to explain, pretty impressive model thou and he could hold his hands into the body pretty impressive.
I made a lot of those where he held his hands in a strange posture. Thank you.

Probustion - Hey nice to hear that you are gonna do life-drawing too, it is really funny and good. :)
I actually used charcoal on some of them too but it�s more difficult with a pen so I went back to my pencil but I guess charcoal should probably be used with these fast ones.
The thing with more lines is that I made some quick guide lines first and then I went back with strokes and more confidence and in the end of the quick processs I threw in a quick shadow with sick-sack lines to feel some shadow in the life-drawing.
Well I guess I am a scribbler when it comes to both digital and traditional drawing. Ok remember to post your stuff later so we can encourage eachother, you can post as much as you want to in my threads :) , thank you.

Isric - I guess it must be my scribble tecnique that shows, thank you.

AndyT - hey thank you AndyT.

Max Kulich - hey Maxinator, I dunno if it is an age-quote when it comes to life-drawing, hmm maybe it is. Probably it varies between the contries.
Thank you for encouraging me Max I really appreciate it. :)

Ok once again guys thank you. :)
see you in the forum and have a nice weekend.
Matthew

*Matthew turns up the volume and headbangs to Blue Oyster Cult* :)

[Light]

Nice life drawing. If you want to get better.. hard to say with such short time to work on them but be sure to not skimp on the fingers or the feet. The feet are quite difficult for beginning artist (and my myself too) because they represent a plane change.

Try to keep your shading to a minimum and make sure that it is uniform.

Sketch lighter at first and then get dark at the end.

Nice works.

[Capt. Fred]

good work matt!
i can say little more what than what's alrady been said: good work!

i suppose i can say that, in my opinion, you'd have an esaier time putting in shadows for the face features instead of lines. i'm saying that for me, it is easier to make features out of shadows than it is to make them out of outlines. you've done that in the first one, but in the second you've used lines and i think it's worked less well. that's only my opinion, it could be completely different for you.

max kulich: i don't know about 16, but I go to lifedrawing classes as a 17yr old. (i'm in th uk. don't know if that makes any difference.)

keep it up matt. looking foward to your new ones.

[Matthew]

Light - some good tips you gave me, thank you. :)

Capt.Fred - Yea you are right about the shadow stuff there, I will try some different tecniques for next time, thank you for your comment and tips. :)

Later
Matthew

[Max]

Capt. Fred: Hehe, so I'll just try it sometime...let's see