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: 

black pencil on 3.28.12

With this week, I was in the mood to create punchy black pencil sketches and I did just that. The prior week I was hatching, so this week I wanted to shade with the side of the pencil. Thats about it. Overall, it was a pretty good week. 


2 min gestures (I went a little crazy with the second page!):

5 min poses: 

15 minute pose (messed up the face): 

20 minute poses (they turned out really well, but some of the fine lines got lost in the scan): 

the first week with the 11x14 sketchbook! 1.18.12

This was an interesting week. It involved a model who was liked to pose with props and what seemed like music that they like to play during the renaissance faire. Whatever it was, it made for a pretty good week of sketching. I think the 11x14" size also helped with opening up and being more loose. 


2 min gestures:

5 min poses: 

10 minute pose: 

10 minute on one page, 20 minute on another: 

20 minute pose: 

some red pencil sketches from 7.27.11

Here are some red pencil sketches from the first sketchbook. I thought it was a pretty good week. 

2 min gestures: 



10 minute pose:

15 min pose: 

25 min pose:

sketches from 9.21.11

There were a lot of good sketches for this week. Some maybe a little heavy-handed, but overall, not too bad. 

2 min gestures: 

5 min pose: 

10 min pose: 

15 min pose: 

20 min pose: 

30 min pose: 

a few sketches from 11.2.11

I don't think I scanned too much from that week, but here some pretty decent ones. With that week, I tried to aim for contrast. The shaded backgrounds look a little grainy, but I don't think thats a bad thing. 

10 minute pose: 

20 minute poses: 

brown pencil from 11.9.11

During this week I tried shading using the side of a brown pencil. I'm not sure if these sketches showed up as brown, but this color is punchy and richer than plain black. I would say that this week of sketches were pretty successful. 

5 min poses: 

10 min pose: 

15 min poses: 

20 min poses: