Life drawing

Life drawing techniques:

 

Here are a couple of pictures of my life drawing. I really enjoyed doing life drawing rather than using materials like wire as they are too fiddly. Firstly, I used pencil to get used to drawing a figure in front of me as I have never done this before also so I could get used to the technique. I used pencil first because I am used to this material and felt comfortable starting with it.

Here I have used acrylic paint I have used blues and yellows to show the dark and light shades as skin is not all one colour. I prefer working in colour rather than black and white.

After using paint I went on to use charcoal also I did a little bit of research about contour lines 

Research: Contour lines

When drawing you need to pay attention to the curve of the form, but also the perspective of the form.

Charcoal- I really enjoyed using charcoal as it is light on the paper and it shows where the shadowing is on the model also it makes the light on the model stand out.

After including contour lines withinh my drawings I started to work on black paper using white chalk to show where the light was on the body. I found this harder than dark shades showing where the shadow is.

I went on to download an app onto my phone called sketch up and sat in front of the model I found this really easy to use and really enjoyed using it here is a couple of pictures.

After using this app I felt I should try out different techniques so I went on to using the  material which I feel I can work best with which is charcoal and attached my charcoal to the end of a long stick. After doing this I went on the add detail with by hand.

I really enjoyed using a stick as I felt it worked best for me. I found I could get the body proportion size better and more accurate being stood further away from my page and that I could go back after to add detail.
Matisse-
He was willing to go to great lengths to achieve a good quality line! It could be that drawing with a pole was a self-imposed sort of handicap, to keep the drawings of this masterful draftsman fresh.  Sometimes having too much skill can actually be a liability when it comes to making art, so a technique like this can provide a balance.

 

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I did this by not looking at my paper and not taking my pencil off the paper

 I did this by looking at the model for a minute then drawing him from what I could remember.

 

 I did this with my left hand.

 

 

 

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Alexa Meade

After doing this I researched into artists that work on skin and I really liked Alexa Meade's work so I went on to do more research. She works on an unusual canvas: the actual human body. And she takes a classical concept — trompe l'oeil, the art of making a two-dimensional representation look three-dimensional — and turns it on its head. Her aim is to do the opposite, to collapse depth and make her living models into flat pictures."

I feel that this work links in with my research into jenny Sevilles work as It is a similar way of painting but instead of on paper its on skin. I prefer the effect on skin better than paper also I feel it looks easier.

Russ Mills

I love the way that Russ Mills works because it is messy but still visual. Working in a messy form means the image doesn't have to be perfect and I feel working like this works best for me, I really like how he uses just black and white to show the lights and darks. After painting using acrylics I came back to it and roughly sketched  detail with a biro pen.

This is another image I have done inspired by Russ Mills, the first image is a portrait done by Russ the second image is my attempt at doing something similar and working in the same way I feel this worked out really well and was really simple but looks mind blowing. The last image is another one of Russ Mills paintings I interpreted a mixture of both the face from the first image and the orange/ red blend from the last image and think it worked really well.

On the right is another painting I have done inspired by Russ Mills I feel that I cannot work like this as it is hard but I have tried. A really good reason why I like Russ Mills work is because its messy and it doesn't matter if it goes wrong because it still looks good. I think after trying to do this on paper I will do an experiment and try doing this with face paint on my brother and see if I find it easier. Doing it in a different way may get me used to working in this way to then develop onto paper.

Here is a image of me trying to use the same style as Russ Mills but on skin instead of paper as I found it hard.

After doing this on skin I found it a little easier and went on to do a face mould and paint it.

This is me with clingfilm on my face as a barrier from the modrock.I covered all of my face but left a hole below the nose so I could breath.

This is an image of me with the modrock on and waiting for it to set.I then took off the mould ready to paint.