I was asked how I start my process, so I thought I would give a mini-tutorial on how we typically do it at our group. To start with, we do 8 gesture drawings as warm-up and start the brain-hand-eye coordination. These poses are timed at 1 1/2 minutes each. This is pretty typical of how I start. I work on 18x24 newsprint and the broad side of a graphite stick. I make a quick pass to capture the general direction of the pose and then start with more defining lines. I don't worry about accurate details as you can see I corrected the head position from the first pass.
The next drawing is a 15 minute one.
Beautiful! Thank you for sharing your process. You amaze me, from a few broad strokes to a person in 90 seconds!
ReplyDeleteThanks Kell - been doin' it a long time and still love it, but will never master it. Oh, I'll get it right a few times and strike out a bunch!
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