hands – AJAiken

All In Gesture – Mad Madam Mim

Some gesture sketches from back in February with the theme of Madam Mim. I have in no way fully captured Milt Kahl’s fantastic work from The Sword in the Stone, but it was fun to try!

Hand Studies

Recently I’ve spoken to a few people about their life drawing, and one thing that’s kept coming up is hands, feet, and faces. It’s really clear when I look at work that has these things missing. They’re tough to draw – don’t I know it! Sadly, they will still be difficult to draw if youContinue reading “Hand Studies”

Life Drawing, 2nd October

I’m a bit behind with posting my life drawings! The first evening back Clara modelled.

Gesture Drawings

I’ve not made it along to life drawing for a few weeks so I thought I’d better get back into practice with some gestures! I drew these from images at Line of Action, using the 30 and 60 second timers.

Sketches

I’ve been unable to go to the life drawing sessions for the last couple of weeks, so I did some drawing from poses online. They’re not ideal (although the model does stay perfectly still) but I do like being able to do the very short poses. The hands below were done in 30 seconds each;Continue reading “Sketches”

More Sketches

I did more sketching from artists.pixelovely.com yesterday. I chose to focus on hands and feet this time. There were some very tough poses, but I had a lot of fun doing these. Here is a very small selection: 5 minutes: Sometimes if I’m not pleased with a drawing I’ve done, and I still have time, IContinue reading “More Sketches”

Portfolio – Hands

Today I’ve added some hand studies to my Portfolio – Life Drawing page, which you can find here: [EDIT – I’ve since updated my portfolio page, so there is no longer a specific page for Life Drawing.]