I love my Friday figure drawing studio and our wonderful models. In the morning I draw the figure during the shorter poses and then switch to a portrait for the final hour-long pose after lunch. In the sketch above I decided to draw the crowded room and other artists instead of the model since I had an obstructed view of what struck me as a boring pose.
Fallon is one of my favorite models. She is so beautiful and strong, with unique features and she always brings interesting costumes and music to play for us.
Brian is very unusual looking, tall, muscular and lean, with prominent facial bone structure and a small, pouty (not potty!) mouth. I think I went too far with the dark charcoal as there’s too much contrast with the lighter areas but I think I did get a likeness, despite the clumsy shading and unfinished hair.
I thought the drawing above was going great until I saw it on my camera’s screen as a mirror image and it looked all wrong. I tried to fix it, but couldn’t figure out what the problem was. She looks so sour and grumpy and really was just a little sleepy from the long pose.
Jana Bouc, Artist 
7 replies on “Life Drawing Studio and Portrait Sketches”
Great to see your progress with the figure! Drawing the whole class is quite a challenge, I’m too afraid to try that. I’m constantly amazed at how the most minute change in a line on a portrait will change a face from one emotion to another. I’m no expert but maybe the corners of the mouth on Bridgette’s portrait is making her look sour. Your portrait of Fallon is the strongest, I can tell you like her modeling the best, it shows in your work. Keep up the great work!
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Thanks Chris. I agree. If I could do figure drawing as well as you I would be thrilled. (And then I’d probably raise the bar again!).
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I’m still enjoying your artwork.
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It’s been a long time! Almost 10 years I’ve been blogging my scribbles…you too I think, no?
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Glad to see I’m not the only one who gets distracted and sketches the class drawing the model 🙂 Your life drawings are good.
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Thanks Sue. The teacher has suggested I add context to my portraits so when the model’s pose was boring I took the opportunity of focusing on the context itself and only put the model in tangentially.
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