Drawing

This page links to my scribblings and sketches, both fast-and-dirty and slow-and-careful. I use both pencil as well as Wacom tablets to draw.

• Personal Gallery
• Elfwood gallery

I’ve also done 1-2 weekly drawing sessions at work, focusing mainly on figure drawing. The session topics covered so far are :

Session #1

• Warmup
• Exercise: The “Before” Drawing
• Exercise: Upgrading your Symbols
• Explanation: Poses – Stick Figures as Guides
• Exercise: Upgrading your Stick Figure
• Demonstration: Posing your upgraded Stick Figure
• Exercise: Advantages and Disadvantages of using Stick Figures

Session #2

• Proportion and the Basic Unit
• Observe and Reduce – deducing pose from a model
• Relative importance of symbols in posing
• Single stroke gestures – dissolving rigid poses
• Inventing poses in the plane of the paper
• Upgrading the mass symbol – the Blob, its use in depicting foreshortening
• Bonus Feature: Eyes

Session #3

• Warm-up: Are you posing better than you started?
• Observe and Reduce
• Injecting life: Important landmarks in the human figure
• The Human Face: Upgrading your symbols
• Tuning parameters of the facial system

Session #4

• Solids from different angles
• Introduction to perspective : 1,2,3 – point perspective
• Review – Basic planes of the head
• Filling in the details
  • Eyes
  • Nose
  • Mouth
• Features from different angles
  • Eyes
  • Nose
  • Mouth
• Shading the eye