More Pen Sketching from Bridgman
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Back to sketching (now in pen)!
Since my last two sessions of painting classes at the MFA, I’ve not devoted as much time to sketching as I used to in the past. So I decide it was time to brush off ye old sketching exercises and do some practice from Bridgman’s Life Drawing. This time I’ve tried sketching in ink for a change. It’s a lot harder when you don’t have the luxury of being able to erase mistakes!
Acrylic exercise–two wine glasses
A study of two glasses in acrylic. Baby steps…
Angelina Jolie Portrait for Last MFA class
This is a charcoal sketch I did for the last session of my fall 2011 MFA drawing class, which was based on a Louis Vuitton ad of Angelina Jolie in Cambodia. (I’m not really a fan of hers, but I thought the ad looked cool.)
Sargent portrait copy
A quick 15-20 min pencil copy of a John Singer Sargent portrait
Bargue Plate I, 54
Finished the last plate focusing on the face in Bargue! I ran out of patience on this one…
MFA class live model drawing, Dec 5, 2011
Another session of live model drawing in class today. This was my first experience drawing in ink. Below are 1 min and 5 minute ink sketches from a live model.
We then did two 20 min drawing sessions, one of which is shown below. I feel like with more time I lost focus on the whole figure and didn’t work all around the drawing like I should have.
Bargue Plate I, 35
A Bargue plate I copied in charcoal in December 2010.
Bargue Plate I, 22
A charcoal drawing I did back in July 2010, before I understood how to blend charcoal better.
MFA Live Model Drawing Class Nov 21
Here are some drawings I made from my intermediate mfa drawing class. We drew from a live model. The first drawing is a 5 minute (I think) gesture drawing made in comte crayon. The second is a 35 minute charcoal drawing.
Drawing from life is hard!
