Head Drawing - More Heads

Did a couple of self portraits they don't seem to look like me.

Did this at Marchese's uninstructed workshop but I didn't finish. Just got the initial block in.

Did this at Marchese's uninstructed 2 weeks ago. It looks more like a combination of me and the model. I don't know why the model's always start to look like me.

Did this Head in Nathan's Class. It reminds me of my aunt Loreta.

Five Five minute poses is usually my least favorite part of figure drawing but this time I felt like I was drawing o.k. I am not sure what happened.

I did this at Howard Marchese's workshop in the Marina today. It is the same pose as the other woman with the chopsticks in her hair but from a different direction.

Uninstructed Head Drawing at the California Art Institute

Don't Draw in the Light

The next group of drawings I am posting in part of Nathan Fowkes assignment: Don't draw in the Light. This is the exact opposite of last weeks assignment although I found it a lot harder. This is the drawing I did in class working on not drawing in the light and detaling out of the shadows.

I did this drawing of Maude at Howard Marchese's Uninstructed Workshop at his gallery in Marina del Rey. It is a beautiful place to draw full of light and air and on the model breaks you can go out and wath the boats.

Don't Draw in the Shadows - Homework

I drew Trace Devai today up at LAAFA's costumed uninstructed long pose. I hadn't seen Trace in many years. He used to model a lot for Mark Westermoe the month or so I was there studying. Linda Bull was there, as well as, Cyndi Tang. I hadn't seen Cyndi in a long time. The pose was a Michael Jackson inspired Long Pose but you can't tell from my drawing. I like how my work turned out though. I am surprised and elated how these poses without drawing in the shadow make the drawing have more style to them. I really tried to work on the negative shapes and have a Glen Orbik flare with the composition.

Rhythms of the Head and Tone

I did this tonal drawing in Nathan's Class using the rhythms of the head mapping technique. Nathan wanted us to make the shadow totally black and not to draw in the shadow.

This is a rhythms of the head drawing I did at Gallery Marchese.

REILLEY - RHYTHMS OF THE HEAD

Started Nathan Fowkes' Head Drawing Class. He is teaching the Reilley Method of the Abstraction of the Head. I always heard it called the Rhythms of the Head (lower left hand corner). It is interesting because Glen Orbik stresses the planes of the Head more than the Rhythms of the Head but I think I remember Mark Westermoe starting us with the planes of the head and moving to the Rhythms. There is a youtube lesson I watched of Glen Orbik teaching the rhythms of the Head.
The first night in class we worked on some rhythms.

The second week of class we worked on some more.

I worked on some at the Gallery Marchese uninstructed session on Saturday.

This is a Rhythms of the Head quick self portrait.

Color Theory - Bill Perkins

This is from Bill's class on Monday. I hated my first painting but I like this 2nd one. Bill used Green and Red gells for this set up. It was a set up stress chiaroscuro where the highlights are red orange and the shadows are greens with some plane shifts going to lavendar. I like Bill a lot. I wish I was younger with more energy and time so I could really understand what was going on in that class. I would take it again in a minute.