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We are thrilled with all of the entries and the quality of the work submitted for this contest!

We’d like to thank everyone who submitted their work. It was very difficult to decide the winners.

Remember to enter our June/July contest here!

Here are the winners!

First Place – @Procopiodraws Stephen Procopio – $200 Gift Card

Second Place – @eileen-o Eileen O – $75 Gift Card

Third Place – @julia.kamenskikh Julia Kamenskikh – $25 Gift Card

Honorable Mention – @wafa-awbal Wafa Awbal

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Hello Everyone,

We are so grateful to everyone who submitted. The work was excellent and the judging was rather challenging as a result. If we had more prizes we would have selected more work.

Having said that, the winners are as follows:

1) First Place – Fulva

2) Second Place – Emily (most votes)

3) Third Place – Michelle

Again, our guest judge David Kassan could have picked several more and we are honored that you participated. Our next contest will be announced by the end of the week and we hope you submit again.

Thank you,

Simon

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While this isn’t a class but a session to sketch together, there isn’t a supply list. Please bring what you enjoy working with and we will discuss materials while we work.

Having said that here are some of Paul’s favorites.

My preferred supplies:

Stillman and Birn Epsilon or Alpha sketchbookStillman and Birn Nova beige sketchbook Etchr hot press watercolor sketchbook Fude or bent nib fountain pens (Sailor Fude de Mannen, Hero 9018, Moonman C1 bent nib)Lamy Safari fountain pen with Medium nibDerwent water brush filled with diluted Noodler’s Lexington Gray fountain pen ink (in other words mostly water and enough ink to make an intermediate gray tone)White Sakura Gelly Roll pen

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Feel free to share your Instagram handle too and tag your drawings #guestsketch

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Hi Laleh,

Simply click the REPLY button on the right and then comment and add your photo.

Hope that helps.

Thank you.

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Sweet! Will look you up on Instagram…Thank you for joining us.

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

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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?

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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).

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