I’ve been going to figure drawing group for a while now, but somehow I’ve mostly avoided drawing faces with any actual detail.
Ok, not somehow. It was intentional. lol They’re so hard! It’s way more fun to just focus on what I can draw best (anything but faces). A few weeks ago I decided to try zooming in and drawing only the face, though. Now they’re my official challenge and I’m actually excited to keep trying them!
Someone in the group mentioned the show Portrait Artist of the Year last week. Binged that. Pretty neat.
Below are my best attempts so far. Note the one with all the doodles. I’ve never doodled during these sessions. That’s how much my brain was trying to avoid drawing her face. Literal carrots instead. lol
I think part of my struggle is my love of lines. Shadow would be better to focus on, so next time I’m taking a lot of charcoal and soft pencils!
wk1 & wk2 of live figure drawing
I finally attended a local figure drawing group after having not touched those exact supplies in at least 10 years, I think. I was 1) happy I keep art supplies forever and 2) certain my drawings would look super wack! But they don’t really look so wack, which is so encouraging!
The energy of the studio when everyone is working is amazing. I’ve missed it so much and I’m so happy to have a place to experience it.
The time of each pose varies from 5 minutes to 20 minutes.
