{"id":2812,"date":"2011-10-11T21:56:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T02:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/blog\/?p=2812"},"modified":"2011-10-11T21:56:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T02:56:00","slug":"figure-drawing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/11\/figure-drawing\/","title":{"rendered":"Figure Drawing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went and did some figure drawing last night. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinfigurative.com\/about\/index.php\">Austin Figurative Gallery<\/a> does an event every Monday from 7 to 9pm at the 29th Street Ballroom. It&#8217;s $5 to attend.<\/p>\n<p>I hadn&#8217;t done any figure drawing since I was a freshman in college but after a couple quick warmups it all felt familiar again, except for the d00d drawing with his wacom in Corel Painter. Not that I&#8217;m against it (I do most of my drawing with a wacom) but that&#8217;s definitely a tool I&#8217;ve never thought about using for figure drawing. When I was in school I would use charcoal or pastels on newsprint or butcher paper, but I didn&#8217;t want to have to go out and buy a bunch of new supplies so I used some pencils and a Prismacolor brush tip marker in my sketchbook.<\/p>\n<p>Here are my best pages of sketches from this session:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/images\/2011-10-11_image1.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Hensel figure drawing\"><br \/>Contour drawings with the Prismacolor brush tip marker. Three to five minutes per drawing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/images\/2011-10-11_image2.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Hensel figure drawing\"><br \/>The one on the right is more of a traditional figure drawing with a softer lead pencil, either 2B or 6B. For the one on the left, I tried to do what Frank Santoro talks about in his blogpost <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcj.com\/color-workbook-1\/\">Color Workbook 1<\/a>: define the shape of the figure with gray and then add contours on top. Three to five minutes per drawing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/images\/2011-10-11_image3.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Hensel figure drawing\"><br \/>Contour drawings with a 6B pencil. I balanced some levels in Photoshop so the lines are easy to see. Three to five minutes per drawing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/images\/2011-10-11_image4.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Hensel figure drawing\"><br \/>Contour drawing with a Prismacolor brush tip marker. Five minutes for the drawing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be going back next week &ndash; maybe I&#8217;ll see y&#8217;all there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went and did some figure drawing last night. Austin Figurative Gallery does an event every Monday from 7 to 9pm at the 29th Street Ballroom. It&#8217;s $5 to attend. I hadn&#8217;t done any figure drawing since I was a freshman in college but after a couple quick warmups it all felt familiar again, except [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[152,226],"class_list":["post-2812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artwork","tag-contour-drawing","tag-figure-drawing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}