Female figure drawing five to ten minutes from life drawing session.

Female figure drawing five to ten minutes from life drawing session.  This are another set of figure studies I did from session on late July.  The poses are 5 to 10 minutes gesture study.  Ten minutes sometimes it is enough to get lighting down but not quite enough to get all the detail.  I am planing to attend the longer session probably 25 minutes pose.  Twenty five minutes is good for studying

Figure drawing one minute gestures from life drawing session.

Gesture drawing from figure drawing session one minute gestures from life drawing session.  One to two minutes gestures drawing Figure study from life drawing session.  This is another week that I have been to the session in since it is in the morning during the weekday, I can always make it there.  Hopefully I can continue going and put it in my permanent schedule for my drawing plan.  Now I

Figure painting from life drawing sketches

Painting over figure drawings.  Figure painting from life drawing sketches. These two are another painted over my life drawing sketches. The sketches are ten minutes poses from the session and the painted over takes about couple hours each. When I draw at the session, I was trying to capture simple light and shadow within the limited amount of time. It is difficult to get it accurately but

10 minutes pose figure drawing from life session.

10 minutes pose figure drawing from life session. Here are some more figure study from life drawing session, all the sketches are drawn from 10 minutes pose from life model in the figure drawing open session.


I believe drawing from life is by far the best exercise for artist who really want to be knowledgeable on character design or figure drawing and painting in general.  Because you can

Painting over gesture drawing

Painting over gesture drawing.  This post is a Painting over one of the gesture drawings that I post yesterday, gesture figure study from life drawing session. I figure it would be a good practice for light and shadow not using any reference but only a gesture drawing from life session that I just did. So I pick the one that has a better or clearer definition of light and shadow because I am

Gestures Figure study from life drawing session.

Gestures life drawing from July 2011.  Figure study from life drawing session. I have not gone to life drawing session in months because I could not get up early enough on the weekend. And something always come up to interrupt my drawing plan. So I decided to look for open life drawing sessions around the area during the weekday a week ago. And finally I found three to four sessions that I