[simon-levenson]

My drawing from The Society of Illustrators last night in New York City.

[drawingamerica]

I like the atmosphere in this one. This reminds me of many sketch sessions I have attended. It tells a story rather than just showing the figure alone.

[programmer]

I also like to draw. 

[drawingamerica]

Mike, I love the idea of foreground, midground, and background in this. A simple idea that almost always works. Also, a great variety of marks with the pen. 

[Christopher_B]

From a session a couple weeks ago. 

[drawingamerica]

Hi Christopher, What part of the world are you located in and where do you draw? Thank you for sharing this. 

[Christopher_B]

I am in the US, in Portland Oregon. I usually do figure studies one to 2 times per week at Hipbone studios, and practice at home in the evenings and weekends, whenever I can from photo reference.

[jeffdg]

Hey! 

This was from one of Drawing New York’s recent Sunday sessions. Greer is an awesome model. 

[simon-levenson]

Hi Jeff. What is awesome about his drawing and Greer is that he is a terrific figure model and that comes through even in this longer, more developed work. Good job!

[brian-billings]

Hi Jeff, I am really intrigued with the way you have used “secondary” lines to shape his figure and illustrate light at the same time. Very successful in combination with bold assured outline strokes. A lot to think about there, thanks

[simon-levenson]

Two drawings from last night’s figure drawing session at Drawing New York.

[Todd]

Hello, Here is one of my drawings from last night’s drawing nights here in Winnipeg. Thanks for looking!

[drawingamerica]

Hi Todd, That’s a terrific drawing. Can you let us know how long that pose lasted? I am guessing it was a twenty-minute pose. I like how the shadow shapes describe form and the figure gets squared up at boney landmarks (as within the hand).

[Todd]

Thanks a lot, I appreciate it. I think you’re correct, it was 20 minutes! Any time I post something feel free to say if you think something could be better as I don’t have a real critical eye up here to help me out. Thanks again, I’m really enjoying the course, I’ve found it really helpful so far.

[drawingamerica]

Hi Todd, Would love to see your figure drawings now, after all of you recent studying.

[Christopher_B]

Two 30 min. poses from this morning’s session at Hipbone Studio.  forgive the image quality.  I don’t have a great technique for photographing my drawings at this time.  One was a foreshortening  nightmare/adventure, that didn’t turn out great but was fun to do.  The model, Isan, has very long arms, legs, and torso which were a bit difficult to not exaggerate.

[simon-levenson]

Here is a new drawing of my neighborhood. I am interested to get feedback on how viewers see the storyline. My goal is to show everything and let that be the narrative, so one-day people can look back and see what it was like to live here. Do you find yourself looking at it that way?

[brian-billings]

Nice sketch. It reminds me (in a documentarian sort of way) of a crisp depression era Walker Evans photograph. The bottom right figure becoming a framing element with vertical and horizontals, cool

[steven-bottcher]

Working on anatomy placement and proportions. Looking for critique. Thanks!

[drawingamerica]

Hello Steven, Thank you for sharing your work. It is admirable that you are placing specific muscles and muscle groups in the areas they belong to on the body. The issue is with volume and shape as I see it.

Volume: If you think of a chicken breast from the supermarket laid flat on the counter, you will see it has some volume (the thickness of the muscle). But the shape is flat, inherited from the countertop.

Shape: Now if you think of that same muscle as part of a whole chicken you will see the breast, in addition to maintaining its volume, now has a shape which it gets from being attached to different bones. It is wrapped around the rib cage and so takes on the shape of the rib cage.

Your drawing will benefit greatly, I believe if you first think of the volume and structure of the bones the muscles are attaching to and then draw the muscles around those volumes.

In the Davinci drawing attached, notice how each muscle has its own volume but also inherits its shape from the bones it attaches to.

Does that make sense?

[steven-bottcher]

Makes total sense! The chicken example is a perfect analogy. I realize now that I was just focused on getting the muscles in the right spots and wasn’t taking the time to visualize them as three dimensional forms. I’ll work on it and re-post when ready!

[Frogman]

My drawings have been looking like this recently and they are all lacking, especially at the rendering stage. Not quite sure what to do…

[Carl]

currently on Wil’s figure drawing course, i wasnt happy with my 15 attempts for the homework, but didnt want to just hand in images i liked because the goal is to learn, so here is some of the extra practice i did.

these are a mix of 1, 3 and 5minute drawings