Some figure drawings...

[ansonjew]

Crits and comments welcome....

http://image1ex.villagephotos.com/1828664.jpg
http://image1ex.villagephotos.com/1828666.jpg
http://image1ex.villagephotos.com/1828665.jpg http://image1ex.villagephotos.com/1828663.jpg

Anson

[drewantarctic]

i think you have something going with the linework here. but onto crits...

good contraposto on the first. i have a prob with the shoulders though. the arms go too far back and there doesnt seem to be much response from the front of the figure. the sides of the breasts should be pulled back. also render that part in. it really flattens out when it pulls back from the shoulder.

the second peice works well as far as linework. are you familiar with giaccometti? if not, you should be. i have one problem here with the bottom leg. it looks like its going through the ground. it should be in front of the other, not undrneath.

watch your balance on the last one. looks a bit off. keep pushing that linear style you have started. maybe not so dark, but my prblem is with all the light space you have going on in there. its not describing to me anything about countour. it just beomes ambigious and dead. i suggest not working on white paper. i never do. also the breast on our left looks like it popped. render it the same method as the other. when you start drawing a certain way, youve got to continue it. you set up a language early on, and you dont want to go from spanish to dutch, you know? that goes also for the linework going from that blockular style to the more contour oriented stuff int he same drawing.

anyways, keep it up! looking prospective!

[ansonjew]

Thanks for the crits.

I can see what you mean about the shoulders and arms. The shoulders and chest seem a bit short. Maybe I should have done something with the lighting or the breasts to push the chest forward more. The cast shadow on the background seems to be the only indication of this in the pose. By the way, what do you mean by "contaposto"?

I'll check in to Giaccometti.

The last piece was actually done before the other pieces. Which explains the things you noticed. The first and second pictures are examples of what happened to my work once I started paying attention to forms and planes more (thanks to Kevin Chen's class!) The second and third images are examples of work I actually took the time to do preliminary value studies before starting the final drawing.

Anson