Model Drawing 2, week 4

We start with our gestures as usual, TEN 2-MINUTE gestures.

These are followed by heads, hands, and feet.

We completed TWO 5-MINUTE HEAD STUDIES, TWO 5-MINUTE FEET STUDIES, AND TWO 5-MINUTE HAND STUDIES.

Student work:

This was followed by a review of cascades, tension points, and gathers.  The goal of the cascade is to make it feel as though it is being pulled down by gravity.  The weight should feel evenly distributed on either side of an imaginary 90-degree line.

Student work:

THREE 15-MINUTE WALKING poses, with attention to gesture, weight, balance, the planes/perspective of the feet/legs, and the gravity on the falling fabric.  Basic block in of color, with tension points and gathers drawn in with colored pencil.

We then talked about sequins (or as I call them, "sparkles"), and how to apply logical specularity and intensity according to how light behaves and affects basic forms.  Note the drop-off of intensity as the light drops away.

Student work:

ONE 15-MINUTE pose focusing mostly on the garment with its tension points, gathers, and sequins, followed by ONE 10-MINUTE pose focusing on gesture, proportion and movement.

Afterwards we moved into pushing the "sexiness" of our ladies; exaggerated curves (still a slender figure though), arch of back, and perspective of the rib-cage and pelvis.  Perky breasts, and super "S" curves on the legs.

Disregard the chicken beak on the lady on the right, we were talking about chickens and how you can light any form as long as the lighting is consistent throughout the drawing.  Here we have exaggerated crunch-and-stretch on the torso.

Student work:

THREE 20-MINUTE poses with rendering on both the figure and the garment, pushing the angles and curves of the figure.

We end with an approximately 12-15 minute pose:

 Student work