Just as the term started I decided my drawing skills needed a boost that drop in classes weren’t providing. Luckily, literally 2 minutes walk from my flat in Bethnal Green is life teacher who holds various fine art drawing and painting classes through via the Meetup website.
As I never formally studied fine art at a tertiary level I thought this would be a good place to start and definitely haven’t regretted the move.
My post MA illustration commercial goals revolve around concept film and game work and these skills seem to be critical in this arena. Adrian Dutton runs a high quality class barely half way through the course the ten week course I’d felt I’d had my money’s worth.
I’ve posted a few pics here so you can see the kind of thing we’ve been doing.
Grid measured enlargement from the measuring session
Charcoal experiment for the tonal drawing session, covered the whole
page with charcoal and worked back with a putty rubber
This is also fits in very well with my MA project of creating a series of bestiary images.
Imagine FX have been running an excellent series in the back of the magazine about breaking down people and animals into basic shapes. I’d largely ignored it until I started this course and realised just how useful it could be when I come to do my bestiary images (ie. now!)
The learning curve is steep for my painting and drawing but it’s all worth it’s weight!
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Wonderful figure studies, I find I use charcoal and white chalk on toned paper to give the impression of some color. Its great to stumble upon another figure artist!
Thanks Jeannie, your digital work looks interesting. Life drawing is pretty key to my goals and I really enjoy the tonal work. Good suggestions I’ve some toned paper but chalk and charcoal do that finger-nails-down-the-black-board grating shiver to me.