Ringling Week 4

Here's some of my (better) figure drawings at the conclusion of Week 4

We're starting to go into anatomy for figure class, which unfortunately is my weak point. I'm going to try and focus on this especially, because it's difficult to measure and scale things properly... So more focus on measuring and control next week.

In other news, I had time during this weeks DPSY meeting to doodle people.

Ringling August Drawings- Week 1 & 2

Well, the first and second week of Ringling have been completed!
It's been crazy adjusting to this whole college thing, from having a roommate (an awesome one at that!) to living in Florida (lots and lots of rain and humidity) to just not having any family/old friends around.
Weird stuff.
But I'm getting used to it.

Here's my figure homework- the only familiar thing going on with all the projects and classwork and stuff.

5 minute drawing

30 second poses

drawn with a highlighter and then a micron pen

1 minute sequential drawings

2 minute drawings

2 minute drawings

Here's what it really looks like:

Yeah, at art college we hang out in our free time and make silly poses.

It's 11pm

A contour drawing from a hotel room. Time: 5 minutes

Last Semester of Figure Drawing *SOB*

Goodbye, Visual Arts Conservatory!

15 minutes?

5 minutes- I love this one, I only wish I had more time to work on the face.

10 minutes- good shading; near-invisible chair.

10 minutes- this is a good example of something I ran out of time on but was shaping up to be pretty good.

15 minute portrait- I love her expression so much.

20 minutes- Two different colors. Gasp.

Trying out new techniques in shading.

Kind of reminds me of Pocahontas.

Drawn with the flat side of a conte crayon.

Drawn with charcoal pencil

Toned paper with chalk and conte crayon.

All conte crayon

15-20 minute portrait- conte crayon

Well, this is a lot of my better work from this semester of Advanced Figure Drawing. I'm quite pleased with the results. This year I tried a lot of different techniques and mediums, trying out conte crayon, chalk, charcoal, and pencil, and really felt more secure in fast drawing and both traditional and experimental techniques.

Also, I got an award at my school for Figure Drawing! I am so thankful to Mr. Blackwell, my teacher, for selecting me for the award. I'm gonna miss all my talented peers and the art classes in high school- can't wait for college though!