Lucas' art work from Watt's

[lucasgraciano]

OK so here is an update from the past few semesters. The work varies from everything between 25 hour graphite drawings to 20 minute demos. Big 'ol download!

http://www.lucasgraciano.com/art/Pirate_graphite.jpg
http://www.lucasgraciano.com/art/IMG_6569.jpg
http://www.lucasgraciano.com/art/IMG_6571.jpg
http://www.lucasgraciano.com/art/IMG_6572.jpg
http://www.lucasgraciano.com/art/IMG_6573.jpg
http://www.lucasgraciano.com/art/IMG_6574.jpg
http://www.lucasgraciano.com/art/IMG_6575.jpg
http://www.lucasgraciano.com/art/IMG_6580.jpg
http://www.lucasgraciano.com/art/IMG_6581.jpg
http://www.lucasgraciano.com/art/IMG_6584.jpg
http://www.lucasgraciano.com/art/IMG_6585.jpg
http://www.lucasgraciano.com/art/IMG_6588.jpg
http://www.lucasgraciano.com/art/IMG_6594.jpg
http://www.lucasgraciano.com/art/IMG_6599.jpg
http://www.lucasgraciano.com/art/IMG_6606.jpg
http://www.lucasgraciano.com/art/IMG_6608.jpg
http://www.lucasgraciano.com/art/IMG_6610.jpg
http://www.lucasgraciano.com/art/IMG_6612.jpg
http://www.lucasgraciano.com/art/IMG_6616.jpg
http://www.lucasgraciano.com/art/IMG_6618.jpg
http://www.lucasgraciano.com/art/IMG_6620.jpg
http://www.lucasgraciano.com/art/IMG_6629.jpg
http://www.lucasgraciano.com/art/IMG_6630.jpg
http://www.lucasgraciano.com/art/IMG_6651.jpg
http://www.lucasgraciano.com/art/IMG_6652.jpg
http://www.lucasgraciano.com/art/IMG_6655.jpg
http://www.lucasgraciano.com/art/IMG_6666.jpg

[solorpower]

These are really good man! Makes me want to dive into a life drawing class all over again!

[Dizon]

wow nice Lucas!

I have a question. How close should I be to the model when doing portraits like that girl with the short hair?

thanks.

[lucasgraciano]

patdzon- I supose you don't want to be too close that the model is outside your cone of vision, but not too far that you can't see detail when it comes time to render. At the school we have our first set of benches maybe 4-5 feet away from the model and our back row is maybe another 5ft beyond that. When doing long studies I like to be a bit closer(4-5ft), it allows me to see the subtle halftones that will help describe the form even more.

solorpower- I appreciate it. I think lifedrawing will always be apart of my career.

[Dizon]

patdzon- I supose you don't want to be too close that the model is outside your cone of vision, but not too far that you can't see detail when it comes time to render. At the school we have our first set of benches maybe 4-5 feet away from the model and our back row is maybe another 5ft beyond that. When doing long studies I like to be a bit closer(4-5ft), it allows me to see the subtle halftones that will help describe the form even more.

solorpower- I appreciate it. I think lifedrawing will always be apart of my career.

So, the size of your drawing depends on how close you are to the model? How about the people behind you? Do they make the same size drawing by using comparative measuring? Or do they draw something different, like a full length figure drawing, for example.

THanks.

[lucasgraciano]

Sorry for the confusion. We draw on 18 x 24 pads and our portrait drawings rarely go over lifesize. Generaly our portraits are a little under lifesize. If a head is drawn too big it tends to look a bit too gargantuous!-especially females. We also stress the idea of getting back from your drawing to see it coming up as a whole and if the drawing is too big it's a bit harder to get back from it. So I guess this is more sight size than comparative measuring. The size of the drawing depends on the composition each student decides to work in. I hope this clears things up a bit.

Lucas

[|NTeRN]

damn your stuff is looking nice. that long painting fo van... damn dude... nice

[Matt Smith]

its just wattstactular up here. great stuff lucas. i am realling diggin those quick sketches, and of course those long figure drawings are just great but i have already told you that before. the feet you did for van on the drawing are so interesting to look at, so much character.

[GNL]

All this stuffs really beautiful and solid - my eyes were happy!

I was gonna ask a question If i can regarding your pose lengths ?

How important do you think it is to have a experience in longer poses?? The longest pose I ever get at a class is around an hour and a half. Do you think its important to have some experience in taking a life drawing to a good finished level, say a pose of say 9 or 10 hours or even more?

I had made the assumption myself that surely it would be a good idea to have experience in all types of poses - as you are displaying here, gesture/quick sketch and medium length poses and also long poses. Am i right in saying that having experience in each one benefits the others???



as i said before great work!

cheers

[lucasgraciano]

GNL- I think it's very important to study the figure for extended periods. It gives you the time to analayze the subtleness in the form and the time to bring the drawing up slowly. You are right in saying that experience in one length of pose benefits the other lengths. In shorter poses (3min-3hrs), a lot of the drawing is indication and short-hand, you just don't have the time render all the subltness. The longer pose gives you the time to render-giving you the knowledge of what to indicate in the shorter pose. At the school we run the long pose for 15 hrs. We are slowly working our way up to a 30hr pose- Which I think will be awesome!

Matt- Thanks! I was pretty happy how those feet came out also.

Intern-Thanks, Matt- That long painting class definitly needs to be longer!

[GNL]

Lucas man -

thanks so much for the reply. you've really made my day - honestly - its really good to hear from someone such as yourself that i wasnt a million miles away in my thinking on the idea of long poses.

Really appreciate the reply man!

Its terribly frustrating where I am, i cant find anywhere that would even do a 5 hour pose..

im glad your looking forward to your 30 hour pose too!

again, thanks!

regards

gavin

[Egets]

that is total eye candiness, love your drawing style, its so realistic yet you add something magical into it that makes it better than real life

[exoduz]

These are some really nice pictures.
I like the color in your portraits. Thumbs up!

[lucasgraciano]

exoduz- Thanks!

Egets- Thanks to you too!

GNL- Hey, if you can't find anywhere near you that will give you more time for the long pose- maybe YOU need to start it! Good luck!

Lucas