wk1

wk2

Model Drawing 2, Week 2

This week we focused on Glamour Poses in Bathing suits, focused on shape design, line quality/variety, heads and hands.

As usual, we began with Gesture Drawings:

We started with TEN 2-minute gesture drawings, below is a student page:

We then continued with a Head Demo, stressing the simplification of the head and face:

Elegant simplification of the female Fashion head is stressed.  This demo was followed by TWO 7-minute head studies.  In a profile view, make sure the width of the head is the same as the length of the face.

The Head Studies were followed by hand and foot demos, stressing the simplification of the hands and feet.  Hands and feet do not need to be overly complicated, here less is definitely more.

Student head study.

We then moved into shape studies.  The gesture drawing is laid in with either a light colored marker or colored pencil, then over this frame, only the solid black shapes of the hat, glasses, gloves, bathing suit, stockings, and shoes are designed and drawn in.  No detail is necessary, we're focusing on large shapes.  We completed THREE 7-min figures in this fashion.  These should be drawn on white paper.

Immediately following the shape design exercise, we laid another white sheet of paper over our shape exercises and traced a silhouette over them, focusing on the shapes of the figure and line variation.  This exercise should be completed with the brush tip of a marker, or with brush and ink.  The silhouette does not need to be complete in the time given, but every mark made should be clean and of quality.  We repeated the poses from the shape design exercise previously mentioned.  THREE 7-min poses, white paper.

Student work:

Shape design exercise.

Followed by line quality exercise.

The two figures on the right are from the next exercise:  THREE 15-minute "glamour" poses, finished only by line quality; in other words, the figures should not be rendered (shaded), but must look finished with only clean, clear line variation, with varying degrees of weight.  I prefer these drawings to be executed with brush pen/marker, but if that proves too tedious or uncomfortable, one out of the three may be executed in pencil.

Student work:

We ended the day by blocking in color only in the bathing suit of the figure, and keeping the rest of the figure finished by line quality:

Only the bathing suit, hat, and scarf have color blocked in; these color "blocks" are flat and follow the shape of the bathing suit, hat, and scarf carefully.  We are stressing our flat, 2-D shape design in this exercise.  We completed TWO 15-minute figures in this style.

Student work:

This completes week 2.

Model Drawing 2, Spring 2014, Week 1

We began with TEN 1-MINUTE GESTURES focusing on movement and proportion.  To be done with adult proportions from the proportion sheet.  These were followed by FIVE 2-MINUTE GESTURES.

Student work, example of a gesture page.

I then DEMOED the BASIC SHAPES OF THE FASHION FIGURE, addressing GESTURE, BALANCE, BASIC SHAPES, AND SHAPE RELATIONSHIPS IN THE LIMBS.

We then completed SEVEN 3-MINUTE GESTURE DRAWINGS, (2 FIGURES TO THE LEFT OF THE PAGE).  We followed these gesture drawings with FIVE 1-MINUTE BLIND CONTOURS, and TWO 2-MINUTE SIGHTED CONTOURS.

We then combined the ideas of a QUICK GESTURE DRAWING with A SIGHTED CONTOUR SILHOUETTE.  SO, WITH TWO DIFFERENT COLOR PENCILS - ONE LIGHT, ONE DARK - COMPLETE A QUICK GESTURE DRAWING, AND IMMEDIATELY BEGIN DRAWING A SIGHTED CONTOUR SILHOUETTE AROUND THE SKELETAL GESTURE.  USE FASHION PROPORTIONS WHILE DRAWING WHAT YOU SEE, SO THAT YOU BEGIN TO MENTALLY STRETCH THE MODEL YOU ARE LOOKING AT TO FIT THE IDEAL FASHION PROPORTIONS.  BEGIN BY DOING TWO 2-MINUTE POSES OF THIS EXERCISE, FOLLOWED BY THREE 5-MINUTE POSES OF THIS EXERCISE.  THE 2-MINUTE POSES ARE MEANT TO PUSH YOUR SPEED, THE 5-POSES PUSH YOUR ACCURACY.

I then DEMOED the basic anatomy and structure of the FASHION TORSO and LEG.  Keep the anatomy simplified, elegant, and pay attention to the shapes you use to describe your forms.

We then completed ONE 6-MINUTE TORSO STUDY, using the proportion sheet proportions, and ONE 6-MINUTE LEG STUDY, again using proportion sheet proportions.  Student example.

Another student example of the above exercise.

After lunch we warmed up with TWO 2-MINUTE GESTURE DRAWINGS (on the left).  I then completed a demo of a basic Fashion figure (center drawing) focusing on: GESTURE, PROPORTION, SHAPE DESIGN, AND SHAPE RELATIONSHIPS.  IN 15 MINUTES I WANT PERFECT PROPORTIONS, EXAGGERATED GESTURE, BALANCE, CLEAN LINE WORK, AND A CLEAN SILHOUETTE.  I'M ALSO LOOKING FOR SIMPLIFIED ANATOMY.  We then completed FOUR 15-MINUTE FIGURES EXEMPLIFYING THE TOPICS STATED.  NO SHADING!!

Student work, IDEALLY YOU SHOULD END UP WITH A FRONT VIEW, FRONT 3/4, PROFILE, AND BACK.

Student work.

Student work, back view.

For the exercises use however many pages is necessary, but do try to keep as many of the exercises separate from each other.  Try not to mix different exercises on one page as it will lead to confusion when I take a look at the work.  The finished four 15-minute figures can be on white paper and all grouped together onto one page, so create a nice composition for all of them.