Monday night life drawing – June 27 2011

A male model this week! It’s fun drawing different body shapes.

 

I think the butt on the one facing away eventually came out okay - but I started off giving both of the studies womanly hips!

My favourite from the night, a twenty minute study with some washes:

This was one of those studies that just works from the get-go. The pose felt right, I got to work on tone again and it was very fun and relaxing to draw overall.

Monday night life drawing (05/06 double post)

Catching up on two weeks’ worth of Monday night life drawing! (Despite the length of time since I posted the last one – I missed one Monday, and it was a public holiday on another!)

Here’s a quick study from 05/31 that I was happy with:

Perhaps more excitingly, the teacher decided I’d been progressing quickly enough to start working with oil paints. Yay! We’d been talking about it for a couple of weeks, but that session he brought in another sheet of black board and started showing me how to use the paints :3

My first oil painting! I haven’t used oils before, so I was a bit surprised to see you could push them across the canvas, like paint. Very much a learning experience, and a lot of fun 🙂

As for this week’s lesson:


I like drawing models with different body shapes, of different ages – it’s interesting seeing how different things affect the human body.

Soon I hear we’ll get to draw a male model too 😀

Our lief drawing sessions are structured so that you do a series of quick warmups (three to ten minutes), and then the model settles into a ten minute pose (the setup pose) that will be repeated for the hour session.

I found the foreshortening for this week’s hour pose a little tricky. At the bottom of that image are two quick studies done during setup time – about five minutes each. I saw basic mistakes I made with the first one, refined it, and did the second one to get a better idea of how it should look.

The image at the top WAS going to be the hour study, but I cut it off after fifteen minutes because it just wasn’t working, and it would have been easier to start again.

Sometimes, doing things like that pays off.

Painted firebunny

While I wait for my camera to charge so I can post this week’s Monday Night Life Drawing, have a preview of my current assignment: the Firebunny, now textured.

Eyes have also been textured, but not included in this shot.

The model was unwrapped and textured entirely in 3d coat. There are probably some things I should take fix up in Painter and make a little bit more delicate etc, but I was surprised how easy it was to paint onto the model directly in 3d coat – and how crazy easy it was to do up a textured normal and spec map in the same way. Originally I had only planned to lay on rough colours in 3d coat (especially with it being so easy to make sure painting is consistent across seams, which is one of the things that does bother me when I paint an unwrapped UV Map), but after a series of interesting accidents on my part I ended up doing the whole thing in the program.

What isn’t showing in this screenshot is the effects of the alpha map – There are bits that are supposed to be partly transparent. Hopefully I’ll show you what I mean in the next render I upload.