Update....kinda.

So, exciting news in the sketch world. I just edited a whole lot of stuff so it's computer friendly, so my next update will be absolutely grand. However, I'm exhausted from all of this, and I want to accompany my update with a heartfelt review of my semester. I absolutely cannot do this while I'm feeling like such crap. I hope you don't mind. :)

Here's a preview....



Enjoy, and I'll be back soon....

artsifartsi

Oh hello there peoples. Some more arts I did this week.

3 minute quickstudies.



20 minute reclining pose study


30 minute exercise on perspective and angles



Another 20 minute reclining study


And this one is a 2 week painting exploring a new technique. First week was only monochromatic using turp to pull out whites and linseed oil and liquin to keep the paint wet and sketchy. I wish I had a picture of it from the first week, it looked like a charcoal drawing. Second week was just glazing over with color and painting more opaquely. I really like the way it came out. :)

HEADS

Just an update full of heads. So many heads lately. Oh just wait until I update my heads and hands sketchbook at the end of the semester. 100 heads and 100 hands! But for now, just a few.

This first one is kind of an edit/update because I fixed the painting of Deirdra a little bit after critique. Made her look less "grossed out", gave her head more mass and filled out her face and neck a little more. I think it looks a bit more like her now.


And here's a bunch of 5 minute drawings from Clothed Figure.









I think this one was 10 minutes. We were supposed to be looking up at the figure but some of my proportions are a little silly on this one.



And then this one was a self portrait for Heads and Hands. Worked on from a mirror.

Paintins

Oh hello crazy bone structure woman. She kind of looks like me but even more strange looking.



I had so much fun painting my Derpa.

Yeeee, character designs for my clothed figure drawing class!

So here's a bunch of school stuff from this semester! I'm almost up to date. Maybe 3 more posts and I'll be posting things from each week. I've been drawing so much I'm afraid I won't be able to keep up and I definitely can't post everything. :| But I'll certainly try.

Here's our first homework assignment. Flour sacs!



A 10 minute doodle I liked. The following are all done on 16x24 newsprint. (I think that's the right size)



I didn't really like the model so I idealized her a bit... But that's okay. The results turned out alright. I'm getting much better at line quality and proportions. Here I'm doing some under-drawings, but right now in class I've eliminated them all together. It's such a great feeling when practice pays off.




I loved this girl. She had such great rhythm.



-Jenni

Paintins

Here are some still lives that I've done in the past year. I'm slowly learning a technique that I'm comfortable with, I'd have to say all of these are studies. I used a technique that was inbetween dry and wet that looks pretty smooth, but towards the end of these I had more of a wet technique. Sadly, some of my paintings are at home with the family so I didn't have a chance to scan them in and share. I will one day.

I think I gave this one to my Grandma for Christmas. Good times. On a 11x14 canvas.



WOO METAL, that doesn't really look like metal because I used so much blue. Oh well. 11x14


Glass, my favorite. The idea of this one was 'brandy and cigarettes washed down with a coke'. A very pessimistic painting, heh. 18x24



This is one of my favorites for sure. I used a wood panel rather than canvas, and I really liked the smooth texture. 9x12


And this one I did this year. My first assignment for 'figure painting', oh boy. 14x17