croquis de nus

[beet]

Hi all
I haven't posted here for a while, but I regularly visit and enjoy the show.
I have recently started doing life drawings again, and I plan to slowly use these opportunities to explore new mediums for me. Watercolors are in the top list, sculture might be, too. It strucked me lately that I have almost used digital for my stuff in the last ten years - missing out on the 4000 years of others tools used to create art before the computer. I'm not really planning to start painting in a cavern with ashes, or having elks posing for me, but everything in-between that and heavy curtains-to-avoid-light-on-the-screen sounds good to me, right now.
If I can do an okayish sketch everyweek, I'll be happy to share it here.

http://www.beetart.com/forum/CN_1.jpg
http://www.beetart.com/forum/CN_2.jpg
3mn pose
http://www.beetart.com/forum/CN_3.jpg

[stephen]

really like that last one beet, good job!

[talmir]

tisk tisk.. missed two days now.. But very nice drawings. Very fresh seeint these clean lines.

[beet]

thanks!
I tried working with sanguine chalk this time around. much larger drawings. 3mn poses again.
http://www.beetart.com/forum/CN_4.jpg
http://www.beetart.com/forum/CN_5.jpg

[davi]

i'd enjoy seeing like 200 more of these from you :]

great work!

[R_M]

I am really into your style!
great site by the way:chug:

[Turbosity]

Very nice, minimalist gesture on the last one

[Lung_bug]

i second davi's thoughts

[Skank]

*fanboy mode on*

ITS BEET!!
wow, i love your work for the L5R cards man, very very cool!
*fanboy mode off*

hehe, ok,
i really like these minimalist life drawings, they capture the forms so well, cant wait to see more!

[beet]

today's bunch. tried adding values, err, need more practise with the tools to do so...
thnaks all. Skank: me blush ;)
http://www.beetart.com/forum/CN11_03_n1.jpg
http://www.beetart.com/forum/CN11_03_n2.jpg
http://www.beetart.com/forum/CN11_03_n3.jpg
http://www.beetart.com/forum/CN11_03_n6.jpg
http://www.beetart.com/forum/CN11_03_n7.jpg
http://www.beetart.com/forum/CN11_03_n8.jpg

[davi]

man i love your work, the 3rd and 5th are fantastic.

[el coro]

hey beet! how are things? havent seen you around for a while, hope alls well with you. i love these drawings...precise and simple. great job. hope to see more...-c36

[Rusty Red Robot]

Really solid figures! Your ability to capture form with just a few, clean lines is amazing.

[beet]

thanks for the encouraging words Davy and rusty.
El coro, cheers, all's fine, I'm doing less "fantasy" works at the moment, trying out other directions with me works...one of these break/rebuilt times. I saw here you did an exhibition of your own work lately, congrats.
Time to break the spell I put on Davi with this ;) I had 2 small hours to scult a study of a woman, looking back at it, I did a fine orc with a skin disease and flat feet.
The best part for me was how lost I was in the first 2 hours, trying to shape/model that pile of earth. That took over the study of shapes, but a great learning experience it was.
http://www.beetart.com/forum/SC12_03_n1.jpg
http://www.beetart.com/forum/SC12_03_n2.jpg

[davi]

haha that's awesome

this isn't for school or anything is it?

[mtw]

Your figure drawings are really nice. I like how you get the lines right with just one stroke. That's something I'd like to do.

Occassionally you seem to be not drawing the face. Do they feel finished without them to you, or are you worried about messing up?

[beet]

davi : the purpose of doing these is for me to study and -hopefully - learn something ( evening atelier, no school or teacher ) I felt I was stuck working with bad habits, lately. I try not to freeze my stuff in any cheap formula, although it's almost impossible to avoid, when doing commercial art for a living. aaanyway ;)
mtw : thanks for pointing that out, I didn't realised it yet. i guess they're not my point of interest so far, I try to see the body as a whole. and I mostly do really short poses, so you gotta make choices. I'll probably concentrate on faces later on...
see you guys in 2004, thanks!

[davi]

well it's awesome seeing someone out of school teaching themselves :]

[beet]

I though 3mn poses were quick, this one was 2 mn, now that is pretty short.
http://www.beetart.com/forum/CN01_04_n1.jpg

[Skank]

man, i love your figure work
i need to get my gf to pose for me and do some of these

ive always admired your work, very minimal and otherworldly, no 2 pictures are alike, and i appreciate that alot!
actually, seeing your website made we want to try my hand at digital painting..well..ANY painting for that matter.

keep posting please!!



:chug: :beer:

[krAtul]

putain c'est beau :)

#k

[beet]

finally back to them life drawings- tried WC, and learned so much about what not to do with them. I will be back at them WC, I loved the process. line works with an old pencil too dry for my taste. 4 minutes poses i think.
Kratul , merci
http://www.beetart.com/forum/CN02_04_n1.jpg
http://www.beetart.com/forum/CN02_04_n2.jpg
http://www.beetart.com/forum/CN02_04_n3.jpg
http://www.beetart.com/forum/CN02_04_n4.jpg

[beet]

http://www.beetart.com/forum/CN04_5.jpg
this is not a product placement, I just practiced watercolors on many different free tiny samples of WC papers to learn about them differences.
not sure that one was the one i enjoyed most, actually.
http://www.beetart.com/forum/WC04_1.jpg

[R_M]

the first water color pice is amazing!

Rather different from you RPG illos....

[foster]

hi beet, you have amazing assuredness to your lines! i wish oh wish i could lay down a line wit such confidence and have it be just right. all of yours seem to be that, just right.

jon

[beet]

R_M: thanks. these life-study are fuel to the fantasy works... complementary works.
Hi Jon, Thanks, means a lot coming from you. You know I'm not confident enough to hit oils at the moment, though...
today's
craie and pierre noire, guess 10 mn
http://www.beetart.com/forum/CN04_8.jpg
3mn
http://www.beetart.com/forum/CN04_6.jpg
2mn
http://www.beetart.com/forum/CN04_7.jpg

[beet]

bump
adding to the infamous serie of " cheap WC on sample papers "
http://www.beetart.com/forum/CN04_11.jpg
http://www.beetart.com/forum/CN04_12.jpg
I'm posting that one as a joke, during the pause, we are sometimes taking the aperitif.. Quickly sketched the model while she was relaxing with a glass of cider - i was drinking too btw. I'm curious if you guys are doing that in your classes or ateliers out there ?
http://www.beetart.com/forum/CN04_13.jpg
no it's not the cider, the perspective really was strange on that pose. sorry about the inflating head.
http://www.beetart.com/forum/CN04_14.jpg
less than a minute of foot fetishism, ah.
http://www.beetart.com/forum/CN04_15.jpg

[beet]

bump
http://www.beetart.com/forum/CN04_16.jpg

[Skank]

awsome
well placed minimal lines

you say alot with very little! :chug: :beer:

[beet]

giga BUMP from hell

lifedrawings ( 2-3mn) that I probably killed while experimentating ( digital ) later onto it.
really quickly, too.
http://www.beetart.com/forum/CN04_17+.JPG
http://www.beetart.com/forum/CN05_18.jpg
http://www.beetart.com/forum/CN05_19.jpg
http://www.beetart.com/forum/CN05_20.jpg
http://www.beetart.com/forum/CN05_21.jpg

[fredflickstone]

great line work, very egon Schiele like...or gregory weir gaton...these are nicccceee....

Ron

[Darkstrider]

Wow, this thread is incredible!

Beet, how do you get so much info down so quickly, with such great economy? Does it come naturally, or did you spend a lot of time learning the forms of the body through anatomy studies and life drawing (I mean slower, more detailed life drawing)?

I would love to be able to draw like that.

How big do you do those life drawings? Also, it seems you must draw from the shoulder... rather than laying your wrist on the paper and moving just your hand... right?

[beet]

Ron : thanksalot!
Darkstrider : I mostly studied anatomy with... an anatomy book. down to the bones, the way the muscles are attached to the structure, tendons, etc ... probably the stuff they teach in good anatomy classes, i guess. but for me it was through a book. doesn't matter the way, once you get a good understanding of it, it actually change the amount of information you'll be able to grab from the drawing sessions. I have no real method to talk about, except that I don't think much ( conciously, of the place of this and that ) while doing the short poses, I may try to get into a rythm instead ( of observation / line ) ?? sorry, no real method to share. I'm carefull enjoying my drawing time, though.
about the practise of life drawings i have, i only started recently.
the drawings usually fits in my scanner, as a matter of fact, but it's a not a rule ( sometimes bigger, it depends of the medium, mostly ) I don't know about the shoulder thing, ahaha.

Icey : :)

same serie
http://www.beetart.com/forum/MM05_5.jpg

[Darkstrider]

Wow... another beautiful drawing! And probably done in like 2 minutes!

Thanks for the response... I'm amazed these are so small... for some reason I was expecting they were like newsprint size.

Keep up the great work!

[Jeff Jaws]

I love these life drawings. big repsect for doing them with such confident lines. Pure beauty.

Jj.

[goldi]

Oh my! What an excellent bunch of paintings! :thumbsup:

I must say that you really encouraged me when you said that it worked for you studying anatomy from books. I'm currently doing exactly the same thing (Loomis and some other books, an lots of reference photos), and I guess I'll be doin it for a long time though... but I feel that it is worthed the energy invested. I'm still at the beginning but I can already see some progress ;)

Once again - Great work, really simplistic and fresh!

[Bojee]

Originally posted by Icey
Great great stuff!! Hope to see something more... evolved... If you know what i mean!

Love your schetches!!

Evolved? I don't know what you mean? These are gorgeous, sometimes simple is more refined. It takes a while to see it that way. He says a lot with very little.

Great stuff beet.:D

[beet]

goldi: to be exact, I think book like loomis's are ok to start with ? maybe? but I would also encourage you to look at some pure anatomy books, where they don't teach any method. Take the information you need from them, and run away ... the goal is to learn to draw from life, not books.
Anyway, many roads to Rome...
Bojee: cheers... I hope to join you guys in the life painting thread at some point this summer.
bump
http://www.beetart.com/forum/MM05_6.jpg

[Bojee]

Beet- nice new piece, i hope you do start posting in the life painting thread we need more new blood over there and I love your work, but I don't mind coming to you.:D Keep it coming.

[Bojee]

Beet - just checked out your sites, you not only draw well but also just a really amazing artist! Great stuff there!:D

[beet]

bojee - I wish I could right now ; later on, i guess.

breaking my own rules - I overpainted the lines on some of yesterday's sketches... yellow and red pastelles + digital, pierre noire.
http://www.beetart.com/forum/CN06_1.jpg
http://www.beetart.com/forum/MM06_7.jpg
http://www.beetart.com/forum/MM06_8.jpg

[stephen]

that last one is awesome, nice work

[Icey]

looking good! I'm interested in something more elaborated, if you know what i mean! :) do you have a link with our bigger drowings?

[beet]

stephen : cheers! like your efforts, too.
Icey : nothing new I'm afraid

I recently went through the pile of drawings from last year, found these oldies. probably the only update of the summer.

btw Darkstrider : I found out that I was mostly drawing bigger than what I told you, couple of months ago - often on cheap newsprints paper, and actual drawing, quite larger than the a4. you must have asked while i was in a special phase :)

http://www.beetart.com/forum/CN08_23.jpg
http://www.beetart.com/forum/CN08_24.jpg
http://www.beetart.com/forum/CN08_25.jpg
http://www.beetart.com/forum/CN08_26.jpg
http://www.beetart.com/forum/CN08_27.jpg

[Marko Djurdjevic]

beet,

I hope to be as powerful as you when I grow up.

M

[Bojee]

Beet- I'm glad your posting again.

[beet]

I was going to rework these 2, bit of highlights here and there, but it was at best anecdotical at the end of the first one.
there it is, bad scan, no ice.

Marko : ah! I'll have to pay you one thousand drinks for being so silly. thanks.
bojee : I'm posting my leftovers :(
nice sign you have : mushashi would hit me on my toes and say I'd better do new ones, and he would be right :)

http://www.beetart.com/forum/CN08_28.jpg
http://www.beetart.com/forum/CN08_29.jpg

[Bojee]

Lol, you and me both my friend. :teeth:

[Yoonjin]

I did'nt know that there was a thread like this here.
I have just started art school and I have no earlier education in this subject, ahwell this was a croquis drawing from our first lesson, from now on we have croquis once a week. (I really appreciate if ppl here give me feedback and help me developp) //Andreas.

Roger over and out.

http://www.tenjin.se/yoonjin/kroki1liten.jpg
(10 min study)

[Yoonjin]

Hello.

Just have some questions, I looked at your drawings, for how long have u been drawing croquis? I like your clean linework, guess I'll have to practice mine.

Btw: When Im done with my studies in about 4 years can u talk me in to Ubisoft then =)

[Chris J. Anderson!]

Beet: Great work. Always refreshing to see new stuff from you.

[Egets]

This is just about what Gregg Kreutz is doing with oilpaintings I love this method !!!!!! I mean that by not drawing something and leaving illusion of it and just rely on the viewers expectations what he or she should see blaaaablaaablaablaaa :blahblah:

[krispee]

beet: i agree with all, wonderful minimalist line......great work....wish i had your confidence dude

krispee

[drawerboy]

Bonjour, Beet,
Tres bien fait, tes esquisses, meme s'ils ne sont presente sur les murs a Lascaux. Continue. Entres les epoques d'il y a 4000 ans et il y a 10 ans, beaucoup a offrir, a profiter. Merci les avoir presenter ici.

[Icey]

hey man, hese are looking really good! :)

[beet]

oOops, long time no post.
Yoonjin, the first drawing on this thread was almost the first done from life, in many many years... but I was drawing most of the time, anyway.
ChrisJanderson, Icey, Krispee, thanksalot! Drawerboy, merci beaucoup ;)
Egets : I'll check Gregg Kreutz's works. I don't know him, sounds interesting.

I went to a Martial Art event this weekend. I got the chance to sit, watch and fill a great number of pages of unfinished stuff. Gesture drawings, I guess. Even One-Minute-poses will now be bliss to me, next time I'm doing nude drawings ; These guys were constantly moving...
All in all, a great experience in concentration and visual memory.

some of the stuff I saved from the bin,
others are found at my website (http://www.laurentbeauvallet.com)
http://www.beetart.com/forum/nitenmouvement17.jpg
http://www.beetart.com/forum/nitenmouvement22.jpg
http://www.beetart.com/forum/nitenmouvement26.jpg
http://www.beetart.com/forum/nitenmouvement29.jpg
http://www.beetart.com/forum/nitenmouvement30.jpg
http://www.beetart.com/forum/nitenmouvement31.jpg
http://www.beetart.com/forum/nitenmouvement34.jpg

[Pesmerga]

Wow, you're good.

These are my favorites:
http://www.beetart.com/forum/CN02_04_n2.jpg
http://www.beetart.com/forum/CN05_18.jpg
I'm curious: How long did it take you? Are they all under a minute? Are these done without a model?

I like your fast style :rendered:

[faB]

I really like what you do! It's good to see I'm not alone liking these, my teacher at the evening life drawing classes would call it 'comics', because he wouldn't see a huge pile of messy construction lines, duh. :nohope:

I think it's a little stressful but also exciting to try to draw in this way, trying to make each line to tell something, hit or MISS. I love it, I seem to MISS a lot more than you HIT with those though :D

I wonder if you read a lot of graphic novels as a kid ? Just curious because I suspect thats why I like this clear line style. As a kid I sometimes copied these, unware that most of the artists worked on much larger sizes and that what I copied was the 'inking'. Did you like Pratt, Manara, Caza, Moebius, etc... ? (french graphic novel artists)

I like the guy sitting, the suggestion of his 'sword', and the folds of his robe, that's great!

[geki]

Really nice lines, I have studied some of your works.
Sorry for weak comment, I just want to watch that thread <3

[Darrell Bowman]

good stuff

i like to see a line where the body meets the ground
then like a architect build a high rise building up wards from floor up
like a chair on the floor start with the legs and find their postion
then draw the lines upwards then move up to the seat then the
arm rest then the back of the chair.
so you find the position of the knees lying down on the ground
from the pelvis and the toes.
then starting with the knee closes to the floor move upwards to leg that
above that knee this wil help with foreshorting.
so using invisible lines going up to the ceiling u find the points on the floor
where her pelvis bone hits were the knee bone hits were the out position
of the foot go straight up like a building or vertical beams.

:)
darrell

[tiktok]

c'est chaud...
-bayard

[flex mathews]

oh man, i love these. especially the ones from the martial arts event. there is so much information in only a few llines. amazing.

[Denart]

amazing gestures!

so little lines

so much form


I have GOT to study these and make some of my one

thanks Beet


(btw, I love your art in Spectrum) :D

[NovaEin]

fantasic