Tag: figure drawing
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Chonky Marker
I was searching this blog to try and find a reference to when I finished my last A4 sketchbook so I could date the spine, because I neither dated the last page, nor dated the spine at the time. I eventually located the post, but on the way I got a kind of tour of…
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Showgirl
I did some figure drawing practise today, and I quite like the way this sketch turned out. I was using a larger brush than usual, which made some of the details quite challenging, but that’s the fun of it. Til the morn, Suzanne 238/300
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Decompress
I spent a little time on an intriguing Let’s Face It class today, as well as some play with gel plates. I’m having that post-social need to regenerate thing, alongside feeling extremely creeped out at how silent some folk are being about the ongoing genocide that is now extended to another country. The privilege I…
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Reaching
I didn’t have much time today, but I did manage a couple of figure studies. The first is on the right of the spread, and my reference was on my phone, which made it difficult to assess the shadows. I wasn’t trying to stick closely to the reference, anyway, because I wanted to round her…
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Blue Woman
This orange background has been sitting in my stash for a short age, and then today I added more stencilling around the edge, and added this sitting figure that I am enjoying just now. She isn’t finished, but I know what I want to do next, and I’ll let that be my starting place tomorrow.…
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By The Sea
I spent some time today doing another two colour play exercise, but this time I chose my colours. I didn’t enjoy it as much as yesterday, and although I mixed some nice colours, I wasn’t feeling the interplay between a transparent paint and an opaque one. Not today. It was a fun warm up exercise,…
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Bum Day
My little pot of caput mortuum sketching blend died a death today. (is that a niche joke?) Naturally I have forgotten exactly what I put in the pot, so I searched my blog. Naturally when I wrote about making the mix, all I wrote was ‘mixed with medium’. Ha. Waggled some of my sketchbook pages…
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One Hundred and Fifty
Day 150 feels like a milestone, and I am thinking about how this daily practise has changed me. I saw a thing the other day online, and I can’t remember where it was, but it was a commentary that said that if you commit to doing art/creativity as a daily practise for X amount of…
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Turquoise Hair
Today I did some practise with gestural figure drawing, and a bit of colour. I like what happened here. Til the morn, Suzanne 145/200
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Five Minute Figure
This is a challenging reference, and I’ll probably give it a few more attempts, but this is today’s sketch. Might get some painting done tomorrow. Til the morn, Suzanne 136/200
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Pinktastic
I always have an odd day recalibrating after visitors, even if the main visitor has four legs. A change of routine, even just for three days, takes me a minute to come back from. With that in mind, I’m being kind with myself for not getting much at all done today, other than scrolling in…
