This sketch session was with the North Park Drawing Group. I’m glad that I found a community of awesome artists!
Category: Studio Sesh
Torso Sketches and Blind Contour
The session this evening at the art studio (The San Diego Art Loft) was a fun one! We drew from 2-minute torso poses and one blind contour pose. We also did 2, 20-minute sessions of the same pose. After the session, I went back into the full figure pose to fill in the darks…
Color Proportions Piece
This was a fun one, although I’ll have to admit, not at first, lol. I’m having a tendency to lay out the initial drawing with a wide base. This made the model appear wider on paper. We were able to fix this and place the torso in a box frame. My challenges began with laying…
Grid Drawing, 4 Sections
This was incredibly challenging. The exercise this week was to break down a drawing of our model into 4 sections. I decided to start with the model’s left hand (lower right) and go section by section. Vine charcoal is nice because it’s a very forgiving medium, and I can erase and fix the piece as…
The Classical Shadows
This was from my first session at a nearby studio, San Diego Art Loft. This exercise is about finding the dark areas of the subject using the side of a charcoal stick. My “aha moment” came from squinting my eyes and focusing on the shapes formed by dark shadows. I think that when it comes…
Charcoal Exercise with Michelangelo
What better way than to learn from a classical master, Michelangelo. On tracing paper this exercise was to use charcoal sticks to widely cover dark areas. Then go into details with a charcoal pencil.