Face studies

Analysing some faces and drawings (Raphael).

Master copy WIP (updated, May 4)

 See latest stage here (September 4): Ingres copy almost finished

May 4, working on background and details 

We're having a drawing and painting course where we need to copy some piece of art. I chose The Valpincon Bather by the French master Ingres in order to practice the very difficult nude painting genre, particularly depicting skin, as an arguably logical continuity for the intensive life study workshop I attended and also because figure painting and drawing is a classical measure of artists skills and some videogame, film and animation studios may ask for references of figure painting for evaluation of the concept artist or animator candidate's skill level.

Here's the initial charcoal drawing, then the underpainting stage where I have drybrushed titanium white on earth green. Then on to glazing and background.

Friday May 20 I added some glazing and worked the surroundings further. Sorry for the bad cell phone photo, the flash light reflects from the wet surface unfortunately. It was difficult to find decent reference images of the painting, some were obviously taken at close range, giving a bit fish-eye effect which explains the strange wide shoulders. This is 120x80cm, 80% of the original's size and I have to speculate the colors between several reference images, thus, I'm putting my expectations to 80% success for the time being.

Animal sketches

Random animal sketches. Ink and watercolor on moleskine sketchbook.

Easter meditation WIP

This Easter I thought it would be appropriate to explore some spiritual matters and meditate through art, seek peace of mind that way. So, Revelation work in progress:

Color and lighting experimenting in Photoshop. Still needs work on details, and outlines have to be removed for credibility.

 

About two hours of work and still going...
 Second stage: added round top, blocked character forms and worked an underpainting
Original red pastel drawing.

Hand study

Charcoal and chalk on recycled A3 paper

March life study

 

Chalk and guache on black paper, 160x100cm

 

Charcoal on litoposter

Graphic representation technique course works

 

Graphite

 Dry watercolor

 Wet-on-wet watercolor

 

Scratchboard technique

collage

 

 Ink and guache washing technique

   

Final work: illustration for a fairy tale about the birth of the mountains in Lapland. Acrylic on canvas. This was displayed at the Rovaniemi Design Week exhibition at Lappia-talo.

Color study 2

Life study. Guache on black paper. 150x100cm. 1 hour.

color study

1 hour color study / speed painting. Chalk and guache on black paper. about 100x140cm.

By the way, I'm going to use this blog as an art experimenting channel from now on. The graphic design material will be displayed at the tumblr blog

Life drawing

 

 Compressed charcoal sticks on litoposter.

Sanguine pastel pencil on paper. 150x100 cm

Painter 11, 4 hours.

After months of intensive anatomy studying, I tried to draw this without a reference. Looking critically now, the construction is a bit hit-or-miss. strange shoulders, too beefy arms, flat head, somewhat implausible neck angle and as a whole a bit illogical character.

December life study

 

3 hours, charcoal on litoposter.

 

Sanguine pastel on litoposter.

Skull embrace

Life drawing. Some proportion mistakes here and there admittedly. Still a progression though.

Life study 3

Sanguine pastel pencil on litoposter. Tuesday's life drawing workshop at the university. I tried the renaissance artist approach for a change. We had one hour to draw this but I finished the hair and the cloth afterwards. A classmate complimented that this looks very realistic.

Figure drawing

 

Artist life down at the university: figure drawing.