Still life II

 

A couple of still life studies with basic shapes. The cube was a perspective study and the composition was a structure/axis study. Both charcoal on paper.

Live model III and still life

Graphite on toned paper, around 70x50 cms, 5 sessions 3 hours each. Hands and feet were barely finished.

Still life is pastel on black canson mi-teintes.

Live model #2

Graphite on paper, roughly 90x65cm. Three sessions long, which is usually a short time for me, but regardless I managed to take it to a decent level, even though I couldn't finish the leg and feet.

Live model drawings

These live model studies, while still far from what I want, are the best I've done so far. They all share the same technique and material, which is an amazing old Contè pencil (extra fine drawing pencil n.1) that isn't made anymore (of which I only have one) on a fabriano f4 paper toned with watercolor. I'm aiming to study at the Repin school in St. Petersburg, and hopefully in 2 years I will have enough money and skills to get accepted there.

Head studies

Three head studies from life, older one is bellow, newest on the top. It was black colored pencil (prismacolor verithin) for the top one on a smooth strathmore paper, and graphite on paper for the bottom two.

Live model II

Live model, charcoal and white conte on toned paper. Awful photograph as usual.

Charcoal study II

Charcoal study done in 4 sessions, each of about 2 hours at the live model class I attend to with professor Bandeira de Mello. Vine charcoal and charcoal pencil on Canson Mi-teintes.

Aline II - Conte carbone

Finished this one last week, carbon pencils on canson paper. Outlined the drawing from the model and then finished the shading at home from a photograph. Scanner didn't get the whole drawing, though.

Teresopolis - studies

Traveled with a few friends from my study group to a neighboring city this weekend, where one of our friends owns a place. It's situated where a recent natural disaster killed over 1000 people. Though the destruction is visible everywhere, it's still a place of inspiration and with vastly beautiful nature. Shame we did not have much time. These are a couple of the few studies I was able to make there, both charcoal on paper (Strathmore and Arches respectively) and from nature.

Charcoal studies

Couple of charcoal studies, first from life, two friends I study with, done with vine charcoal and charcoal pencil. Last is a Hans Holbein copy done with charcoal pencil.

"Maniere noir" study

A pencil study for a maniere noir lithograph.

Uncle

Another quick pencil study for my next pastel portrait.

Gustav Woogsmeister

Pencil drawing for my next pastel. Portrait of a friend.

Live Model

I've just recently began live model classes with a brazilian master painter called Lídio Bandeira de Mello. He taught at the National Academy of Fine Arts and most of my teachers to this day studied under him. It's a privilege to be his student not only because he's over 80 years old but also because he is a great person.

This is my first finished drawing, each session is 3 hours long and each pose lasts for 3 sessions. I couldn't finish shading so I brought it home and tried to darken it a bit, the back and the left leg mostly. I think a little more understanding of human anatomy could have given me a better result.

Pencil on paper, A2 size ( roughly 50x70cm )

PS: still ought to learn how to take pictures of b&w drawings.

Studies, or the lack of..

I decided to copy some drawings to practice and to kill the time, while i thought of ideas for my next project at school... I think what I like the most really is to copy, it's been such a long time, I forgot how much I enjoy doing it. The first drawings are Durer's, and the samurai is from a digital artist called Daarken.

note to self - the amount of proportion mistakes only emphasizes just how much we cannot stop practicing...