Last Body in Motion class

Last session. We've brought our portfolios with us and after this session, we can opt to pick or change some pics if there are better stuff to replace it with.

3min- bloody disaster since I couldn't leave any open spaces on the  figure,  with or without negative spacing

3min- a little better

10 min- so so. the linework clarified the arm and waist for me, but still feels lacking.
Maybe some line on the skirt would have helped put some attention over there. 

10m- I prefer the girl on the left, but the right one's lower form didn't turn out bad.

10m- the only thing I like is how I did the shirt folds on the girl on the right,
though she's looking mighty off balanced.

I think I included this one on my Final Portfolio.

Body in Motion- cartoony vs self

This morning I did another round of sleeping students on the lounge area, but the funny thing was there was a campus tour that morning.

It felt a little surreal seeing the faces on those students when a semester/year ago I was one of those people, going through the campus, seeing the students sleeping or just chilling and thinking wow, what kind of life is this?


Well now that I am a student, I could easily answer that with- if I had to wake up at 5:30 just to catch a 7 am bus to get to a 9 am class, I'd be trying to catch some zzz's as well. XD

Drawing wise this session didn't turn out so bad. When we had another round of class critique work, I think the gist of what my teacher and classmates said was I have a great grasp of poses and there's an energy to the short poses, but it sometimes borders on cartoon/stylized renderings. Like...I've learn to read/ lock down a pose so well, I tend to disregard the model at that point and start drawing a figure, but not the figure standing on stage.

Dunno if that makes sense to you people reading this. XD;
Pictures are wider than they should. This auto size seems to like squishing their width.

2min

2min

3min

3min

10 min- The left is my favorite, maybe because I was spending more time working out the shadows
and lines, I actually only used one tone instead of adding a second darker wash. 

Body in Motion- wet medium time, Awww Yeaa....

New month and tackling an old medium (Ink wash and brush) with a new technique. I've done ink wash works before under Komisar (like using one light tone and dark tone wash) back in Chabot but in this class there was an extra condition: namely leaving open spaces on the body where light hits the brightest.

I'll just combine my first two weeks of handling this stuff-

If I remember correctly, she allowed us to make a preliminary sketch underneath to get the poses down.
I guess this is why these didn't turn out so bad.  

The teacher suggested using the podium shadows to  help clarify what the woman is doing,
and the shadows also give form to one of her legs.

By the new week, we were allowed to mess around with our calligraphy pens and start adding linework.

2-3m I think I was having a bad time with this guy at first, trying to leave open spaces and whatnot,
ended up going 'screw this' and doing whatever.  

Love this model alot on the short poses, this guy is FleXible-
did you see his super contraposto on the earlier pic?