Week Six, Final Week, Putting it all together!

Drawing from 0 to 100.
Welcome to our drawing class archives. This blog has 12 weeks of tutorials and class work. To start with week one, scroll down to the bottom page, "older posts", by clicking on 2011 archive list to the right. There, it's possible to read thru drawing lessons and view student work.
Here is Marie's portrait drawing on the first day of class, and six weeks later her accomplished portrait drawing.



Class at work, drawing from the model.


Drawing the portrait is a series of corrections, throughout the whole drawing process. A most useful step in developing as an artist, is to be able to critique your own work. Stand back from your easel and look & compare to the model. Open up a compact mirror and look at the drawing backwards, you'll know immediately what is wrong. In general, artist like to stand back from their work often during the drawing process to see what might be off, scanning for weak and undeveloped or proportionally inaccurate areas of the work. Today we will partner with our neighbor and work as a team to critique each other's work. Fresh eyes may help to see what's off.
Most artists do not get thing accurate the first time, everyone corrects, and as part of the drawing process we learn how to correct. Hold off on too much detail until things are placed properly. You don't want to be invested in a beautifully drawn eye if it's 1/2" too high!

Our final class we will work from the long pose, working in steps, just like last week, making good observation and corrections along the way:
1. envelope to block-in to contour
2. flat toned shadows
3. core shadows only
4. lit area, working all over to bring up values correctly.



Please join us for summer painting workshops,
This coming summer, we'll hold three different painting workshops
during the summer of 2012, register at Funk & Junk or call 360 378 2638
July 13,14,15,
August 10,11,12
September 7,8,9
Registration is open now.

Finally, after today's great drawings of Roger are results of our take home portraits, done 100% by students on their own, impressive! What great work by all!!!