Friday, March 13, 2009

Life drawing



Nude Study, work in progress.
Pencil on 14" x 17" paper

4 comments:

Chris Rywalt said...

I would not have expected one to be able to get from the blocking-in to this. Very nice.

jeff said...

It takes a lot of time.
I did this over a period of 7 weeks in 3 hour sessions. The first few weeks I was practicing the block in and the worked up drawing was done in a bout 5 weeks or about 15 hours.

It is a very good way to start a drawing as you can correct angles and tilts, perspective and proportions before the drawing gets to far along.

You keep subdividing and this gives a good solid form to build on.

Chris Rywalt said...

It certainly works for you and you put enough time into it.

tayete said...

I tried this approach after reading Ryder's book about nude drawing, and though it doesn't fit my way of working (a more direct drawing), it really works.
Nice blog by the way, added to favourites :-)