Cropped Will Cardini artwork

October 11th, 2011

Figure Drawing

Filed under: Artwork — Tags: , — William Cardini @ 9:56 pm

I went and did some figure drawing last night. Austin Figurative Gallery does an event every Monday from 7 to 9pm at the 29th Street Ballroom. It’s $5 to attend.

I hadn’t done any figure drawing since I was a freshman in college but after a couple quick warmups it all felt familiar again, except for the d00d drawing with his wacom in Corel Painter. Not that I’m against it (I do most of my drawing with a wacom) but that’s definitely a tool I’ve never thought about using for figure drawing. When I was in school I would use charcoal or pastels on newsprint or butcher paper, but I didn’t want to have to go out and buy a bunch of new supplies so I used some pencils and a Prismacolor brush tip marker in my sketchbook.

Here are my best pages of sketches from this session:

Mark Hensel figure drawing
Contour drawings with the Prismacolor brush tip marker. Three to five minutes per drawing.

Mark Hensel figure drawing
The one on the right is more of a traditional figure drawing with a softer lead pencil, either 2B or 6B. For the one on the left, I tried to do what Frank Santoro talks about in his blogpost Color Workbook 1: define the shape of the figure with gray and then add contours on top. Three to five minutes per drawing.

Mark Hensel figure drawing
Contour drawings with a 6B pencil. I balanced some levels in Photoshop so the lines are easy to see. Three to five minutes per drawing.

Mark Hensel figure drawing
Contour drawing with a Prismacolor brush tip marker. Five minutes for the drawing.

I’ll be going back next week – maybe I’ll see y’all there?