Life Drawing Workshop – 7/22/17

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drawing, drawing nude live models, drawing people, Drawings and paintings, figure drawing workshop, life drawing workshop

I missed the last two life drawing workshops but I tried to make up for it by going to Croquis Cafe on YouTube to draw from their models. The poses are actually timed. There are 1 minute poses, 2 minute poses, and then a final 5 minute pose. It’s pretty close to actually being there.

However, I was able to go today and draw live at the Sunday workshop at our local university. It beats drawing from a computer monitor.

Below are a couple of 2 minute warm up poses drawn with sumi ink, brush, and wooden chopstick.

 

This is a 20 minute pose drawn with the aux deux crayon style.

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Life Drawing Workshop – 7/2/17

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ink drawing, ink figure sketches, ink sketches, ink wash sketches

Good day at the life drawing workshop. We had, probably our best model, posing for us. Below are two of my 2-minute warm up sketches done in ink.

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New Painting – Atlas Holding Up The Heavens

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Atlas, oi painting

I had an old painting of Atlas Holding Up The Heavens sitting around in my garage. I had reworked it in my sketchbook and planned to make the changes in my painting. It took awhile but I eventually did it and I’m glad I did.

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Life Drawing Workshop – 6/11/17

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aux deux crayons, charcoal drawing, charcoal figure drawing, life drawing workshop

Today we had the tattooed model. It seemed like she had new tattoos added since the last time I saw her.

Although I got got a couple of poses with her back to me there were a couple of poses where I was able to draw her face. It was hard to capture the general look and feel of her but I think that’s how it is with certain models.

Below are two 20-minute charcoal drawing in black and white on toned paper.

More charcoal drawings at www.cletocriste.com/life-drawings/

 

 

 

Ink Sketches

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Was looking at some sumi ink sketches from three life drawing workshops and decided to post some of them. These are two-minute warm up poses that we draw at the start of the workshop.

Life Drawing Workshop – 5/28/17

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aux deux crayons, charcoal figure drawing, drawing, portraits, toned charcoal paper

I like drawing this particular model. I think someone said he studies classical poses and uses them when he models for a life drawing class. For some reason his looks reminds me of Van Gogh. A woman next to me said he reminds her of paintings of satyrs. But we both agree that his mustache is very interesting.

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Life Drawing Workshop – 5/7/17

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aux deux crayons, charcoal drawings, charcoal figure drawing, life drawing workshop, life drawings, portrait drawing

Today’s model is one of my favorites to draw. He’s not muscular but he’s large boned with angular, well defined surface areas. You don’t have that smooth roundness that you see in a lot of female models so he has more interesting surface areas to work with.

Below are two, twenty minute drawings in the aux deux crayons (two chalks) style.

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Life Drawing Workshop – ink sketches

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ink sketches, sumi ink, sumi ink figure sketches

I haven’t posted my ink sketches for awhile. These are some sketches from the last two months.

Life Drawing Workshop – 4/23/17

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charcoal drawing, charcoal figure drawing, drawing, life drawing workshop, life drawings, portrait, portraits

Today’s drawings at the Sunday life drawing workshop. For some reason I always seem to have a little difficulty getting a good likeness of this model. Oh well, I just need more practice, I guess.

20 minute poses.

Life Drawing Workshop – 3/19/17

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aux deux crayons, charcoal drawings, drawing, Hawaii artists, life drawing, portraits

Not a cloud in the sky today. After a few weeks of rainy weather and vog we get the perfect sunny weather this weekend. It was also a nice day to do some life drawing from a live model.

Below is a 10 minute charcoal drawing.

 

Below are two 20 minute aux deux crayons drawings.

To see more of my life drawings and other artworks go to www.cletocriste.com.