I draw and paint freehand instead of tracing over the screen, so don't expect a lot.
Sunday 4 January 2015
nude sketches
2 comments:
Alan Turtle
said...
Very interesting Michael, have you ever considered studying a little classical art of artists such as Draper or Waterhouse instead of trying to find someone to pose for you. I suppose it’s my age that prevents me from attending a session at the local art club when a live nude is posing, my heart these days just wouldn’t keep ticking, and anyway the pencil I am holding has a mind of it’s own. But the light and shade of skin as well as folds in cloth, never the less has always created a fascination for me, and many of my sketches (that I wouldn’t put on the internet for fear of narrow minded comments) are, I am told, some of my best. Please keep this ‘Blog’ going with more of your pictures I will follow it with great interest.
Alan, oh you lead me into temptation, I am trying to avoid using pencil or charcoal and doing all of these in pen, so I can add recognisable people to my sketches when I am out and about. I almost drool when I look at my soft pencils which I not allowing myself to use at the moment.
The problem with pencil being the need to fix it in some way.
The next stage will be adding some watercolour.
The objective with the nudes is to get the sketches anatomically fairly correct, my main interest being faces anyway.
I have been getting some issues when sketching out and about with the people in the sketches being recognisable but not so good, the idea was to achieve a recognisable identity in felt tip down to faces as small as a pound coin, not easy. There is a particularly difficult stage where a lot of the people are recognisable but come out rather uglier that they are in reality.
2 comments:
Very interesting Michael, have you ever considered studying a little classical art of artists such as Draper or Waterhouse instead of trying to find someone to pose for you. I suppose it’s my age that prevents me from attending a session at the local art club when a live nude is posing, my heart these days just wouldn’t keep ticking, and anyway the pencil I am holding has a mind of it’s own. But the light and shade of skin as well as folds in cloth, never the less has always created a fascination for me, and many of my sketches (that I wouldn’t put on the internet for fear of narrow minded comments) are, I am told, some of my best.
Please keep this ‘Blog’ going with more of your pictures I will follow it with great interest.
Alan, oh you lead me into temptation, I am trying to avoid using pencil or charcoal and doing all of these in pen, so I can add recognisable people to my sketches when I am out and about. I almost drool when I look at my soft pencils which I not allowing myself to use at the moment.
The problem with pencil being the need to fix it in some way.
The next stage will be adding some watercolour.
The objective with the nudes is to get the sketches anatomically fairly correct, my main interest being faces anyway.
I have been getting some issues when sketching out and about with the people in the sketches being recognisable but not so good, the idea was to achieve a recognisable identity in felt tip down to faces as small as a pound coin, not easy. There is a particularly difficult stage where a lot of the people are recognisable but come out rather uglier that they are in reality.
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