d0gDraW | Dustin Resch: human figure

Sunday, September 23, 2012

NuPastels all over EVERYTHING.

In the second week now of my fall semester at AAU - one of my classes is "Sustained Figurative Studies". We're learning a specific rendering technique, involving a specific palette of NuPastel chalk on velvet gray toned paper. It's William Maughan's technique originally, and he's a gentleman definitely worth learning from. It's an uphill battle, but I'm starting to get a feel for this stuff.

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Grad School: Human Bodies In Perspective

This week's assignment is to plot human bodies in correct perspective. I was lucky enough to have a lot of recent life drawings in my sketchbook to use as reference for some of them - it's pretty great to get some additional use out of drawings like that.

See below for the drawings, and at the very bottom are the original sketches done from live models that were the basis for some of these others.

Sunday, March 11, 2012

Life Drawing March 10, 2012

I've realized that it's been a LONG time since I've posted any of my life drawings - my large format scanner quit working and I have something like EIGHT MONTHS of sketchbook pages from model sessions that haven't made it into the computer or online. Here are some from today, from my first time working with the fabulous model Toni at the Art Institute of Colorado.

More to come at some point soon, I hope!

Sunday, October 2, 2011

Life Drawing September 23, 2011

Definitely have a pile of art to get scanned from this session, but this was the final piece I did, and I liked it enough to put up separately. Used the brown china markers, and a nice man at the session had prismacolor sticks (sienna) that matched it really well - I'm thrilled with the results!

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Big Blue Life Drawing - 9/10/2011

I have a HUGE stack of life drawings from the last month or so... have never drawn as much as I have since I've been teaching this Drawing & Anatomy class. I've got them all scanned, but need some time to photoshop and collage them up... but in the interest of posting something, here's my very favorite piece of life drawing, possibly ever, from this last Saturday. I've been using the manila yellow paper for quite a while, and hadn't busted out the fancy Canson Mi-Tientes in quite a while... I was thrilled with how this came out though. There was a strange burst of light as I was starting with the white pencil (some sort of reflection of the sun off a windshield outside, I suspect) that cast the stripes from the window blinds across the model. Nice to catch a special lighting moment by accident!