Painting is such a personal thing. I think each of us, over time, evolves a process, an approach to painting and drawing that works for usto a greater or lesser extent. For most of us, that process is most likely a mish-mash of our own discoveries, stuff we’ve learned from books,elements we’ve picked up from
Sight Size Self Portrait Drawing – November 2009
In the last series of posts I covered a sight size copy of a portrait drawing ofLady Sarah Spencer by Sargent. I was particularly interested in trying to move beyond a mark-for-mark copy and to develop myability to conceptualise form. I wanted to see what I could learn from Sargent’s approach to simplifying, strengthening andconceptualising
More Head Drawings – Planes and Form in Sargent Portrait Drawings
At the end of the last post on the planes of the head, I’d mentioned that I’d done a series of copies of Sargent portrait drawings, emphasising the planes and the form. Having worked for a little while with Loomis’ planes, and sculpted a head that emphasised the planes, I was looking for something with
Feeling the Form – Loomis and the Planes of the Head
This post is picking up a thread that I dropped in April 2007, the Loomis head drawings. Most of the drawings in this post come from the year of no posts, but I’ll update the site with what this practice has lead me to now in the next post, and so bring at least this
Three Self Portrait Drawings
These three drawings were done with about a month between each, and were each an attempt to construct a selfportrait drawing using theLoomis approach to head construction. It’s interesting to see how differently they’ve come out. You certainly wouldn’t think that they wereall drawings of the same person. At least, I wouldn’t. Distant cousins maybe.
More Loomis Head Drawings
These sketches are a few more examples of heads based on the Loomis book, ‘Drawing the head and hands’.All these heads have been constructed using Loomis’ ball approach, which I covered in mylast post. I’ve included a selectionhere to show how much I struggled with getting a reasonable feeling of the form when I first
Constructing the head – Andrew Loomis
For the past couple of months I’ve been working through the beginning stages of “Drawing the Head and Hands” by Andrew Loomis. There’s any number of books out there, all promising to teach you to draw this most difficult of subjects. But since getting hold of a copy of “Creative Illustration” by Loomis, I’ve come
Self Portrait Drawing – 28th March 2007
The write up for this drawing ishere. Back to portrait drawings
Self Portrait Drawing – 16th February 2007
The write up for this drawing ishere. Back to portrait drawings
Self Portrait Drawing – 29th January 2007
Woah! Scary-face! The write up for this drawing ishere. Back to portrait drawings
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