Figure Drawing at home... (Patreon)

We've had two weeks of poor luck with sick models and unsafe weather, so I let myself do something I'd wanted to try for awhile: working from an existing drawing.

The avocado-ish-colored marker drawing in the background is one of my favorites I've done - one of the rare times I wanted to exaggerate the figure, and then managed to NOT FORGET to exaggerate the figure!

Using the same Blick hot press watercolor block I always use, I set out to do two half-sized paintings based on this piece, and exaggerate a bit more. For the first one, I got weird with the hair:

A little Art Nouveau-y! I plopped the hair in without really thinking about a color direction. I decided to do my favorite lazy color scheme, split complementary. I picked a gradient of lime green into blue-green. Not the prettiest colors for a face and body, which was intentional - I didn't want it to be "pretty." Sometimes I focus too much on what colors are saleable, and I wanted to make sure this was --inhale-- A PRAAAAACTIIIIIICE.

For the second one, I pulled back on the hair and tried to focus on simplifying the shapes.

Successful practice! I couldn't tell ya exactly what I learned, but I'm sure it's buried somewhere deep in my brain and will affect my future figure drawings, regardless of how unaware I am of it.

I popped all three of these up in my store, for shits & giggles. And here are the scans for all of them:

Here's the store listing! (Idk how I knocked all of that marker work out in 20 minutes!)

Numero uno, and...

...numero dos!

Make sure you use the ARTNERD50 coupon at check-out for 50% off! (They're listed at normal prices for the normos!) Fingers crossed we'll have more luck with live models tomorrow night. :)