colored pencils on 4.25.12

I have to say that this has been a successful week. The model did a very a good job and the sketches showed for it. I mixed it up by using both hatching and the side pencil shading techniques. I also focused more on portraits and I feel a little more comfortable sketching them now. It still takes a lot of practice to get the faces just right. 


2 min gestures: 

5 min poses: 

15 min pose: 

20 min poses (the purple one might be my favorite sketch that I've done during my time figure drawing here): 

brown pencil on 4.4.12

I don't know whats up with this weeks sketches, but they turned out really good. With the gestures, I think opening up and trying to fill the page helped. During the last week, I crowded the gestures and the page layout didn't look as good as I expected. I went back to my comfort zone with hatching this week and the longer sketches turned out pretty well too. I needed more practice with faces, so thats where I put my focus. 


2 min gestures: 

5 min sketches: 

10 minute sketch: 

15 minute sketches: 

20 minute sketches: