Prud'hon - Masters' Figure Reference Group Study

[lovin art]

Ok Trev .... I tried ....and sorry for hassling you .....

Ok Heres a part drawing from me mostly worked this for the best part of a day , hey Ive got no love life to speak of so this is it~ me and my boyfriend Stradler on my day off yesterday, I seem to be to keen on here , either that or Im a junkie for not just blood lately but drawing too for that matter ...

Im sorry for the pic , but better then nothing , Im really happy to see my , thought process turning the form I guess thats the fact Im doing so much drawing of late ... its becoming a more natural instinct to me in my drawing and the fact if we get to do more time wise ...

On some Mi tennes , and strokes in charcoal and white conte size a3 ~yeah the leg is not finished but neither am I ....

[roy-p]

Im really happy to see my , thought process turning the form I guess thats the fact Im doing so much drawing of late ...

I think that's the crux of it all, when what you do is out of a subconscious assimilation of all that you have consciously taken in. I guess that comes from dedicated and alert practice.

yeah the leg is not finished but neither am I ....

[lovin art]

thankyou for the comment kind Sir, im doing what most people my age would not have the conviction to do give up nearly everything to focus only on art, so if thats dedication and practice~ i guess so!

[kevinwueste]

I like it Sandra! hey - wait, we're all doing that !! like your new avatar picture - you are happy !!!

just to add to the pile.. I have posted this a bit ago when I re-worked it.. It may still get another visit with more prud'hon sculptued strokes.. ( tiny, carefully sorted)..



Prud'hon worked exclusively on a blue-ish paper and his technique with charcoal and white chalk - stumping and strokes mixed and managed seems to lend itself well to that cool tone.

-Kevin

[lovin art]

My gosh Kdub~a dub.... ~this is well ~its a stunning faultless copy , Very Masterly...and I love your work endlessly ... thankyou for showing us your fine draftsmanship ... and for woving mine/me ; )

I do hope to do more , maybe another but it mite be a while before I get to mine ... thankyou both guys for your graciousness

[dustonpaper]

What a wonderful thread with wonderful works already. Sorry for not commenting on each one (yet), I'm on the run again ... Sandra, John, Roy-p, Trevor .. all so excellent ... Kevin, you make us mortals feel small, thanks for your work, I often look through all your blog -- --just wanted to post this study I did a while ago. It is in oil though ... and much to pink ... never finished it. 20x40 cm. I didn't trace or something, but it was rather easy with the reference in 1:1 beside it I just hat to measure from right to left. C&C always very welcome.



How long with this thread stay ? I plan to take part with a drawing or two, Prud'hon is one of my favourites, but job is keeping me busy ... for some reasons our customers turn all crazy and want their stuff before christmas

[Mausetiger]

WOW, I love Prud'hon and all the work you have posted!!!

Hehe, I want to show my efforts as well. I have never drawn from life so far and don't have much anatomy understanding, which shows in my drawing
Anyway, I am very determined to learn

[Blankart]

Oh, I like it! Very well

[lovin art]

Lovely work Duston , i love you approached it in oils I think you should finish her off for sure ! Look forward to more work from you !

Lots of great stuff being posted

[JTMB]

Well, I know the experienced draftsmeisters that post here will chuckle at this post, but perhaps there are some lurkers out there who are still newbies at life drawing as I am who might learn from this one. My big problem, I've realized, is proportions - which of course is THE most important aspect of drawing a portrait or life figures. I've been lazy about it since I haven't done much, and so haven't expected really good (or in quick drawings, any) likenesses out of my drawings yet. I've started to try harder, and have improved a little (maybe a lot from where I started) but this drawing will show how much I have to go yet (and how the wheels can fall off the tracks so easily). In this one, overall, I felt pretty good - by my current standards and expectations - of how the drawing turned out from the butt up after I was all completed. (Yes, for the experts here, there are still multiple issues, like the arthritic hands, but overall, I was pleased with it.) I spent a lot of time pencil-measuring the image when I drew that part of it. Then, I basically 'winged it' for the legs. After all, those angles don't look too hard replicate, and it's just the legs. Finished the legs, shaded the drawing (deciding not to do the whole background) and stepped back to look with pride upon my masterpiece. Whereupon it immediately became apparent that the legs were way tooooo looonnnnnnng. All I had to do was take one measurement of the total torso height from the butt up and use that to make a mark for the distance to the knee, and then to the foot, and my long-legged beauty would have been an accurate, realistical-legged beauty. Sigh... . Done with mechanical pencil and on 14 x 11 inch (roughly A3) paper.

[Indiana Kate]

My drawing is not an accurate copy of Prud'hon, but I spent time reading about how he layered lines to get his result. That is what I tried to do. Gosh, it took 2 hours to make the little drawing below by softly laying lines. I didn't have any blue paper, so I used Canford Imperial Dreadnought Gray. I only had a small piece, so this is 9 x 6.5 in.

I did learn a lot by attempting to copy Prud'hon's layering. I used colored pencils, light peach, peach, and sienna brown. I thought the darks were not dark enough so I used ultramarine. I then used warm gray 70% for the background. I'm facinated at how the slow layering curves a form.





Kate

[lovin art]

Well, I know the experienced draftsmeisters that post here will chuckle at this post

john .Im abit dismayed at this , i do get the funny side of things ,and I certainly dont class myself as anything but a learning student, but i also get slightly upset at seeing new artists trying to draw but getting frustrated at themselves when its clear that when your starting out , things are never how we want them, --i of course say this with something else on my mind) which is not relevant here-

I also see where you talk of the length issue , --which I think '-I touched on in my last words to you? ... so you stood back saw that the leg was not working that the foot needed repairing , that is a good thing because you see it , but why not take it further and redo it , Please dont think Im being condescending here , Im not , I certainly know how frustrating this can be , but its also something I have come to see alot of beginners do, I was very bad for this also , feeling rather proud of my sad attemps at drawing in the beginning... and Ive a long road ahead of me stil I know this , but standing in class Im forced to see my mistakes , and learning to rub out or better still starting over again is a huge benefit to learning ...



Nice work Indiana--, Good you found the process fascinating , I find hes method clearly logical...

[JTMB]

Hi Sandra,

I appreciate the feedback, no problem with that. I was mainly trying to be humorous about the learning process. I try to balance having reasonable expectations for myself with being realistically direct about critiquing problems - because otherwise progress isn't made. I'm very persistent, perhaps to a fault sometimes, and very pleased with what progress I have made. As with music (which I've played semi-professionally for quite a few decades) though, the further along in art I get, the more I realize that ability in either music or art is a completely open-ended scale with no top limit. Which is a good thing when musicians or artists use that reality to motivate themselves to keep pushing and learning. Just the fact that I felt like I've progressed enough to even post work here is very satisfying, warts and all (and there are a number of issues within the torso of my piece as well that I'm seeing more clearly now after having 'finished' the piece first time through). I'm going to do it again, paying much more attention to the process now, knowing what was learned in the first attempt.

I just took a three-day portrait drawing class with two excellent regional artists and one of the things they hammered home with faces is to not get too concerned with the quality of likeness you achieve when you're first starting out because getting to that point requires a ton of dues-paying time and effort before it can be consistently achieved. I get it...! I have signed up for two more portrait classes after the first of the year and am spending about half my art time working on figures and portraits in the meantime because I see the benefits it will have on (non-portrait/figure) painting, which is my primary interest.

Thanks again for the feedback.

[lovin art]

to motivate themselves to keep pushing and learning. Just the fact that I felt like I've progressed enough to even post work here is very satisfying,

Thats good to know then John , I just responded to that because I wasnt sure I was understanding you , Im finding I no longer just linger on wondering about things ,and asking instead - time is to precious to me and words can mean alot or nothing at all I guess ! ~Thankyou I wish you all the best with the workshops

[Libellule]

My attempt with Derwent pencil chocolat and sanguine, on Sennelier paper, 15" x 13.6"

C&C are welcome