Open Figure Drawing Workshop - Mixed Masters - 020

[Rebeccak]

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OFDW 020: Dec. 5 - Jan. 5 , 2007

Welcome to the TWENTIETH thread of the Open Figure Drawing Workshop!

This is a Workshop that is being run concurrently on CGTalk's Anatomy Forum:

Open Figure Drawing Workshop - Mixed Masters - 020 (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?p=4050348#post4050348)

You are encouraged to post your work either to this thread or to the thread on CGTalk, or both. PLEASE POST YOUR WORK HERE AND NOT JUST TO YOUR PERSONAL SKETCHBOOK THREADS, AS THIS IS THE PURPOSE OF THE WORKSHOP - TO SEE WORK ALL TOGETHER.

This workshop is open to any medium and any style. Some informal moderation
will be gladly provided ~ however, the purpose of the Workshop is for Artists to
interact with and informally critique one another’s work.

The goal of this Workshop is to COMPLETE one or more FINISHED Master Copies.This is unlike the Anatomy Lesson Series in which the goal is quantity. Here, it's QUALITY of one or two finished pieces.

Reference Source:
www.artrenewal.org (http://www.artrenewal.org/)

Choice 01:
Lord Frederick Leighton (1830-1896)
Biondina
Oil on canvas, 1879
20 1/2 x 16 1/4 inches (52.1 x 41.3 cm)
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg

LINK A (http://anatomy.cgnetworks.com/OFDW%20020/001.jpg)
LINK B (same ref. as above) (http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=9557&hires=1)

Choice 02:
Lord Frederick Leighton (1830-1896)
Odalisque
Oil on canvas, 1862
Private collection

LINK A (http://anatomy.cgnetworks.com/OFDW%20020/002.jpg)
LINK B (same ref. as above) (http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=376&hires=1)

Choice 03:
Lord Frederick Leighton (1830-1896)
A Bather
Oil on canvas
Private collection

LINK A (http://anatomy.cgnetworks.com/OFDW%20020/003.jpg)
LINK B (same ref. as above) (http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=498&hires=1)

Choice 04:
Lord Frederick Leighton (1830-1896)
Clytemnestra
Oil on canvas
Private collection

LINK A (http://anatomy.cgnetworks.com/OFDW%20020/004.jpg)
LINK B (same ref. as above) (http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=482)

Choice 05:
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867)
Baronne James de Rothschild, née Betty von Rothschild
Oil on canvas, 1848
55 3/4 x 39 3/4 inches (141.9 x 101 cm)

LINK A (http://anatomy.cgnetworks.com/OFDW%20020/005.jpg)
LINK B (same ref. as above) (http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=9431&hires=1)

Choice 06:
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867)
Copy after Ingres's 1804 Self-Portrait
Oil on canvas, c.1850-1860
34 x 27 1/2 inches (86.4 x 69.9 cm)

LINK A (http://anatomy.cgnetworks.com/OFDW%20020/006.jpg)
LINK B (same ref. as above) (http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=9432&hires=1)

Choice 07:
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867)
Madame Marie Marcotte (Marcotte de Sainte-Marie), née Suzanne-Clarisse de Salvaing de Boissieu
Oil on canvas, 1826
36 1/2 x 29 1/8 inches (93 x 74 cm)

LINK A (http://anatomy.cgnetworks.com/OFDW%20020/007.jpg)
LINK B (same ref. as above) (http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=9305&hires=1)

Choice 08:
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867)
Princesse Albert de Broglie, née Joséphine-Eléonore-Marie-Pauline de Galard de Brassac de Béarn
Oil on canvas, 1853
47 3/4 x 35 5/8 inches (121.3 x 90.8 cm)

LINK A (http://anatomy.cgnetworks.com/OFDW%20020/008.jpg)
LINK B (same ref. as above) (http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=9441&hires=1)

Choice 09:
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867)
Study for The Martyrdom of St. Symphorien
Oil on canvas, 1824-1834
Musée Ingres, Montauban

LINK A (http://anatomy.cgnetworks.com/OFDW%20020/009.jpg)
LINK B (same ref. as above) (http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=7124&hires=1)

Choice 10:
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867)
Study for The Martyrdom of St. Symphorien
Oil on canvas, 1824-1834
Musée Ingres, Montauban

LINK A (http://anatomy.cgnetworks.com/OFDW%20020/010.jpg)
LINK B (same ref. as above) (http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=7125&hires=1)

Choice 11:
Lambert-Sigisbert Adam (1700-1759)
Neptune Calming the Waves
Marble, 1737
Musée du Louvre, Paris

LINK A (http://anatomy.cgnetworks.com/OFDW%20020/011.jpg)
LINK B (same ref. as above) (http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=21345)

Choice 12:
After Leochares
Apollo Belvedere
Marble, c.200
Pio-Clementine Museum, The Vatican

LINK A (http://anatomy.cgnetworks.com/OFDW%20020/012.jpg)
LINK B (same ref. as above) (http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=15542&hires=1)

Choice 14:
Alessandro Algardi (1598-1654)
Titan
Terracotta, c.1650-1659
Hermitage, St Petersburg

LINK A (http://anatomy.cgnetworks.com/OFDW%20020/014.jpg)
LINK B (same ref. as above) (http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=13337)

Choice 15:
Alessandro Algardi (1598-1654)
Sleep
Marble, 1635
Galleria Borghese, Rome

LINK A (http://anatomy.cgnetworks.com/OFDW%20020/015.jpg)
LINK B (same ref. as above) (http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=21295)

Choice 16:
Friedrich von Amerling (1803-1887)
Mutter Und Kinden
Oil on canvas laid down on panel
55 7/8 x 44 inches (142.2 x 111.8 cm)
Private collection

LINK A (http://anatomy.cgnetworks.com/OFDW%20020/016.jpg)
LINK B (same ref. as above) (http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=5937)

Choice 17:
Eugène-Emmanuel Amaury-Duval (1808-1885)
La Naissance de Venus [The Birth of Venus]
Oil on canvas, 1862
77 1/2 x 42 7/8 inches (196.85 x 108.90 cm)
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille

LINK A (http://anatomy.cgnetworks.com/OFDW%20020/017.jpg)
LINK B (same ref. as above) (http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=9590&hires=1)

Choice 18:
Bartolomeo Ammanati (1511-1592)
Victory
Marble, 1540
Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence

LINK A (http://anatomy.cgnetworks.com/OFDW%20020/018.jpg)
LINK B (same ref. as above) (http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=2287)

Choice 19:
Ferdinando Andreini (1843-)
Woman At The Well
Marble
31 x 79 inches (79 x 200.7 cm)
Private collection

LINK A (http://anatomy.cgnetworks.com/OFDW%20020/019.jpg)
LINK B (same ref. as above) (http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=7570)

Choice 20:
Dirck van Baburen (1590-1624)
Prometheus Being Chained by Vulcan
Oil on canvas, 1623
79 1/2 x 72 3/8 inches (202 x 184 cm)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

LINK A (http://anatomy.cgnetworks.com/OFDW%20020/020.jpg)
LINK B (same ref. as above) (http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=21091)

Choice 21:
Caravaggio (1571-1610)
Amor Victorious
Oil on canvas, 1602-1603
61 3/8 x 44 3/8 inches (156 x 113 cm)
Staatliche Museen, Berlin

LINK A (http://anatomy.cgnetworks.com/OFDW%20020/021.jpg)
LINK B (same ref. as above) (http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=3759)

[Rebeccak]

RULES FOR THE THREADS

1. Photographs are the property of www.artrenewal.org (http://www.artrenewal.org/).

2. The drawings created from the photo reference provided here MUST be TASTEFUL,SINCERE, RESPECTFUL, and for the purpose of serious study of the human figure. Those who post silly, disrespectful, or tasteless work will have their posts deleted immediately and will no longer be allowed to post on this thread.

3. This Workshop will run from Dec. 5, 2006 - Jan. 5, 2007.

4. There is NO LIMIT to the NUMBER of posts an artist may make. However, we ask that you post only your BEST WORK, even if it is considered unfinished.

5. Artists who post comments and critiques of other artists' work on this thread must be RESPECTFUL, POLITE, and offer CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM. Flaming will be NOT be tolerated, and constitutes dismissal from this and other threads.

6. I will be offering the occasional comments / critique ~ however, the main focus of the Open Figure Drawing Workshop threads should be on Group Critique and interaction. :)

7. ANY MEDIUM or STYLE may be used: Traditional or Digital Drawing or Painting, Gestural, Sketch, Finished Render, etc.

8. 3D Artists who wish to use the reference for 3D models are free to do so.

9. Please limit the SIZE of your POSTS to 800 pixels WIDTH x Appropriate pixel LENGTH. No huge posts, please!

10. Please post your WIP and finished work to this thread.

11. Have fun, enjoy, and create great art! :)


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PLEASE NOTE: WIP (Work In Progress) images are an important part of the OFDWs and are encouraged. Please DO post WIP images as you work on your pieces. :)

PLEASE NOTE THAT ANY USE OF PAINTINGS WHICH ARE RELIGIOUS IN NATURE IS IN NO WAY AN ENDORSEMENT OF RELIGION OF ANY KIND.

PLEASE NOTE THAT TRACING IS NOT ALLOWED!
Tracing constitutes cheating. Use of a Grid is accepted. :)



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[Rebeccak]

I look forward to seeing everyone's work!

Please do not simply take the reference and only post your work to your Sketchbook Threads. You are welcome to post your work both here AND to your Personal Sketchbook threads.

The purpose of the Workshop is to be able to see others' work from the same reference, and to encourage and help critique one another in a constructive way.

Cheers, :)

-Rebeccak

[Rebeccak]

Check out examples of work done in previous OFDWs here: :)

Links to all OFDW SPOTLIGHT Threads (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showpost.php?p=3462029&postcount=1)
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showpost.php?p=3462029&postcount=1

[Idiot Apathy]

Hellloooooo rebecca - I think it's great that you've got these going over here now too.

Count me in, I'll find some time between work, finals and the workshop somewhere... :)

[Pawlack]

Hi :) I'll find some time as well.

[Zaknafain]

was about time to do some masterstudies anyway... :)

[Noë]

I'll be trying number 009
And I'd love to try 020 too, but that's just too much for me now, maybe later.. Wow those colours are amazing :P
You chose some very nice masterpieces dear rebecca :teeth:

love
Marleen

[Rebeccak]

Hey guys, great to see some participants! Can't wait to see what you guys produce. :)

[Rebeccak]

I realize that CA folks may not be very familiar with the Open Figure Drawing Workshops.

Links to all former, completed OFDWs can be found here:

Open Figure Drawing Workshops (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showpost.php?p=2602753&postcount=3)
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showpost.php?p=2602753&postcount=3

I've collected the best finished work from previous OFDWs and posted it here:
Links to all OFDW SPOTLIGHT Threads (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showpost.php?p=3462029&postcount=1)
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showpost.php?p=3462029&postcount=1

I hope seeing the kind of work that has been done previously encourages people to participate! :)

[Diego]

i'll try to do it. I'm very excited to participate in this.
Thanks rebeccak, i'll try to post tomorrow.

[Noë]

I started on mine, but I think I'm doing it over. The proportions seem weird, like the legs are too short. Also the chest is a bit too diagonal I think :P

58877

love
Marleen

[Rebeccak]

Hi Marleen,

Great to see your work! :) Please feel free to rework your pieces as you feel is necessary - a great way is to take tracing paper and to redraw the areas you feel need adjustment - bear in mind that the point of a drawing is far less to create a perfect drawing than it is to practice, and as such, tracing over and refining a piece is part of a process of learning to draw accurately that takes a long time. I hope you'll resketch and continue to refine the areas you feel are weakest. Looking forward to more posts. :)

Also, a really great book / method you might want to check out is that of Anthony Ryder:

http://www.tonyryder.com/a-book.htm

This is a great book which I have - it teaches you to mark out the figure in terms of angles first and evaluating the negative space as you go. I really recommend it! But the number one thing of course is practice.

EDIT: Diego, I look forward to your participation! :)

[Mitze]

I’m in i participated in the last workshop and only managed to do a pitiful 6 of the 50 studies. So I will definitely finish this one. (famous last words):)

[Uziel]

Hey rebecca nice to see you here too...
thinking of doing a couple or so...
people tell me to practice anatomy more often so this is a good excuse...

Biondina
It was difficult keeping her look young enough...even now she still looks older...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v287/jarrafatti/00classicgirls.jpg

Study for The Martyrdom of St. Symphorien
Page change got in the way + some negative forms didn't come out very well.
Better work out the whole instead of working my way to the next page...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v287/jarrafatti/mysketch.jpg

cheers

[DannySketch]

hmmm fantastic and just what i needed, i shall give 2 of the paintings my humble attempt.

thanks for doing this Rebeccak:)

[Rebeccak]

Uziel, good to see your post both here and CGS. :) Looking forward to your progress - I'm hoping to start mine soon. :)

[Onir]

ooo didn't realize another workshop had started up; once I'm through all my finals and stuff I'll definitely jump on this! thanks for the heads up :teeth:

[Twon Smith]

Here is my first attempt guys. I guess it would be classified as gestural. I hope to work on another one soon.

[Rebeccak]

Hi Twon,

Good to see you posting. :) What I might recommend is trying this in pencil. Take your time - slow down, judge proportions, and think about the lines as you lay them down. Try thinking of this as drawing first, and painting second. Also I recommend killing the white background immediately by laying down a neutral bkgrd - gray, tan, etc. - as all values are relative, and you will find that white makes everything look too dark in comparison.

You may find the shading tutorials linked here useful:

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=403198

Check out the work that was done for the shading workshop here:

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=349444

Really focus on values - that's the key to tying everything together in a painting or drawing. :)

Cheers,

-Rebeccak

[Rebeccak]

Hi Uziel,

Please feel free to create a new post with your updates, since I might miss your work if you edit a previous post. :) Great to see you doing more studies - please post more!

[Mitze]

Some nice stuff so far. I started mine at work i used a grid to keep my copy going to far astray unfortunately i used a biro for the grid so i don't know if i should just use what i have and paint over it or do a trace of my picture and do a full pencil tonal study before painting it. But i think a full tonal pic is a bit of a overkill if I am going to paint it on the P.C. The pic below is'nt correct but more of a guide and i will hopefully fix whats off in the finaly piece.

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f162/mekese2000/fullpiv.jpg

[Ulver]

Great work everyone! Here`s my attempt: Biondina
Thank you, Rebecca, for this challenge :)

[Twon Smith]

Thx for the suggestions Rebecca. I started with a dark brown background on this one and changed my approach a little. The colors went in a bad direction for me like 2/3 of the way through but I had no idea how to get things back on track.

[the_allejo05]

Rebbeca nice thread..although is my personal opinion that you should be posting drawings of masters instead of paintings.. for before painting one needs to learn line.. A drawing also will help more because you are being taught what to use as lines and how to.. paintings are much much harder to copy, if not it would be just a superficial copy ,although everything helps

[Rebeccak]

Twon,

Good to see your work here - I hope you don't mind, I made a few demos which I hope are helpful. :)

One thing that can be enormously useful when digitally painting is zooming way out on both your reference image and your own image. This helps you to see the major areas of light and dark and the major shapes and forms. The way to paint is from large to small, and from dark to light.

Here's a screenshot to illustrate what I mean. When zoomed out this far, I can easily see my mistakes in comparison to the original and can easily correct them at a distance without worrying too much about the details. You want to be sure to get the biggest areas right first before detailing your image any further. I find that I work zoomed out for the majority of the time when I've first started an image, and alternately zoom out / in frequently for the duration of the rest of the painting.

http://anatomy.cgnetworks.com/OFDW%20020/Twon-Smith_screenshot.jpg

Also, there are some key principles which I hope these images help to demonstrate:

When first learning digital painting, it can be tremendously useful to work in grayscale. You can put both your image and reference in grayscale mode. I recommend creating 4 swatches: white, light gray, mid gray, and black. Using your brush, hit the alt key and your brush will temporarily turn into the eyedropper tool, and you can select any color or value from your canvas / swatches by hovering over the canvas while holding down the alt key. Release the alt key, and your brush will return to the brush tool.

http://anatomy.cgnetworks.com/OFDW%20020/Demo-1_01.jpg

http://anatomy.cgnetworks.com/OFDW%20020/Demo-1_02.jpg

http://anatomy.cgnetworks.com/OFDW%20020/Demo-1_03.jpg

http://anatomy.cgnetworks.com/OFDW%20020/Demo-1_04.jpg

Hope this helps! :)

[Rebeccak]

Ulver, that is a beautiful piece! Do you plan to paint as well? I'd love to see more of your work here. :)

Mitze, that's a great start!

the_allejo05, that's a good point, but people are free to both draw and paint for these Workshops, depending on their level. :)

Please bear in mind that I'm not 'teaching' this Workshop, I'm here to learn as much or more than everyone else. Everyone is free to offer advice, tutorials, step by steps, and feedback - whatever you feel is useful and whatever you have to contribute here is very much encouraged!

I've been working on the Ingres / blue dress piece, here is where I've gotten so far - everything is just roughed in, and has lots of refining stages to go:

http://anatomy.cgnetworks.com/OFDW%20020/OFDW-020_01_07.jpg

Gif of the process so far:

http://anatomy.cgnetworks.com/OFDW%20020/OFDW-020_01_giffer.gif

[Uziel]

Slowly she's getting the right age but still some adjustments needed...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v287/jarrafatti/00classicgirlsd.jpg

Cheers

[AztcFireFlower]

Hey Rebbeca, been waiting for the next MC workshop. I am definately in. Just need to print out and set up my work (basically, sitting on bed)area.
Will try one drawing, one oil, one digital master copy. Let's see how far I git.
Uziel Nice start. That's one of my chosen masterworks as well. I think age has to do with a minimal
rendering of planes on her face. The plane transitions and most edges are super soft. If you look at the black and white pic, you don't see plane changes on her far cheek at all. Most of the transitions are with color temperature. In any case, I hope mine will have as good a start as yours.

[Rebeccak]

Uziel, looks like you know what you're doing - keep going. :)

AztcFireFlower, fantastic to see you here - I can't wait to see what you produce!

Here's a small update from me today:

http://anatomy.cgnetworks.com/OFDW%20020/OFDW-020_08.jpg

EDIT: Some updates:

http://anatomy.cgnetworks.com/OFDW%20020/OFDW-020_01_09.jpg

http://anatomy.cgnetworks.com/OFDW%20020/OFDW-020_01_10.jpg

http://anatomy.cgnetworks.com/OFDW%20020/OFDW-020_01_11.jpg

[DannySketch]

just getting the basic structure down and lightly shading in the darkest shadows, i am kind of fumbling my way through this whole process based on what i have picked up here and there on CA, first real master study i have ever done so comments and crits on my process so far will be really helpful,

cheers:rendered:

Choice 14:
Alessandro Algardi (1598-1654)
Titan
Terracotta, c.1650-1659
Hermitage, St Petersburg

EDIT:update, just cracking away at the rendering, starting to see alot of things out of proportion such as the head, the thickness of the rendered arm *sigh*am far to lazy to rub it out and go back to change it, i'll finish best i can and then try another, but for now i am going to bed.:^^:

[Mitze]

Finally finished work so i can now start this. This is a small ways through my first pass over it. I don't get how you colour it do you use layers ie. colour, overlay?
Or do you just paint over it in colour? If you paint over it in colour won't it block out the greyscale and then what was the point of doing a tonal version first? Excuse my ignorance i just always go straight in with the colour and don't know how to paint over a tonal drawing.

Very nice sketch DannySketch
Coming along nicely Uziel
Great, goes without saying Rebeccak.





http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f162/mekese2000/scan00011.jpg

[Rebeccak]

Hi guys,

It's good to see more contributions here. :) I'm going to be scarce for the next few days due to the fact that I have to hang my thesis show - but please continue to post your work and to provide one another with comments and constructive critique.

Mitze, good to have you join us, and thank you for the compliment. :) Nice start to this! Regarding grayscale to color painting methods, check out Steven Stahlberg's excellent painting tutorial here:

http://www.androidblues.com/JealousyStepbystep/jealousystep.html

DannySketch, that is looking really good so far - keep working on this! I have done many copies of the same master work, and each time, I get something new out of it. You may find yourself revisiting certain master works to copy, there is nothing wrong with that. Also, if you find that you are having a problem drawing a certain area, feel free to draw that area larger / independently on a separate page in order to better understand it's form. Quite often there are certain areas for artists that are harder to understand than others, and the best way to understand them better is to study them further.

Looking forward to seeing more of your and everyone's work. :)

Cheers,

-Rebeccak

[Ulver]

Rebecca - no I don`t plan to paint it, coz I never even tried to paint, it still scares me a bit :) Only practicing with pencils for now.
One more study: Ingres #8

[Farvus]

Here's my attempt: Woman At The Well done with charcoal. I'm trying to get rid of fixative smell in my small room.

[Idiot Apathy]

Got a little bit of time today after work, figured I'd start one up.
Thanks again for doing this Rebeccaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

I'm really crummy with exterior edges on the face it seems, got any 'fixes' anyone? Negative shapes I guess :(, did notice the break in the jaw is a good angle check.

So many shapes in faces... Aieee! Takes quite awhile.


#7:
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867)
Madame Marie Marcotte (Marcotte de Sainte-Marie), née Suzanne-Clarisse de Salvaing de Boissieu
http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/15/ofdwpartoneoe7.gif

[Pawlack]

At last I could draw something. Idea of drawing nr. 001 is popular I see.
So far I have pencil and black color pencil sketch. Now I'm going to paint it ;]

[Idiot Apathy]

Ok, had some free time today to pick up where I left off last night. Not sure if I'm going to take this much further, clothing... not ready for that yet haha. Want some more portrait practice, this one has ... too many faults.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/Ragnarok27/IdiotApathyFinal.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/Ragnarok27/process.gif

Going to put this and the PSD up in my demo thread.

[Pawlack]

IdiotApathy - faults ? I see here only great work ;]
Ah and interesting way of showing progress :)

[Idiot Apathy]

Heheh, thanks. It's 'pretty' close to the original, I'm happy with the results don't get me wrong. But I'm trying to tighten up the process, the visualization. Notice in the GIF that I had to stretch everything out horizontally? How am I supposed to do that on canvas ... ? hehe.

Added just a JPEG up there as I noticed it was annoying to wait 20 odd seconds to see the end.

[oma]

i will post number 4 for you all. how you like it, C&C are welcome!

used charcoal and white pastel.
the charcoal don't came out that well on the pastel paper. in my eye's. but hope you like it.

will post some WIP's to :D.

[pennington]

Uziel i think the eyes are a bit too small for a young woman. and her left eye is a tad too low those should be easy to fix i think. wonderful render tho :)

hey IdiotApathy :) beautiful atmoshpere i love the steps thanks

thanks a bunch Rebeccak!!

here's my start the proportions are way off and her pose is more stiff.

[Edit] well here's a couple more hours on this. i don't think i going to do much more to it because i had a lot of trouble with it.

[Twon Smith]

Here is my latest attempt. I'm definately learning, though I still need to work on color relationships and I seem to be trying different tools everytime I draw. I hope to get comfortable with some method before this workshop is all over.http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j262/tscombo/masters4small.jpg

[maxetormer]

Ok this is a first study to get an idea of values and
crosshatching a more refined-accurate version will follow,
as soon as I print the ref, drawing from the monitor aint my thing ._.
Awesome work ya guys, Ill try to give some more comments
on the pieces here on the next post :P

[amer-nazri]

Thought that I should give it a try, since i have soo many problems regarding proportions.


DAY 1

http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/3120/trialooth7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[carlosranna]

Here is my first try on the subject. Soon i might start painting. One thing have been hammering in my mind tough... Do you guys think it´s going to be a major trouble the fact that i´ll work on different medium (tempera gouache instead of oils) and a probably different size (not taller than an A4 paper)?

[Idiot Apathy]

DoInferno: Nah, do it man! It might/will look different but that's not the point. Try to capture it instead of reproduce it.

[carlosranna]

Yes Idiot Apathy, you´re totally right...

Well, just after i posted the sketch above, i went to drawn this one i´m showing now. I had the paper streched on a piece of wood and decided to take it of to scan and them stretch it again, so i already painted on it for about 6 or 7 hours non-stop and i´m going to sleep (it´s 3:25 am here in Brazil...). Tomorrow i´ll try to finish it to show here, cause i don´t have a camera and i won´t take it off the wood to scan the progress, hehe....

[Darvon]

This is my first post and my first try at something like this, but I worked for about an hour and got this last night.

[Ian L]

Thanks for starting this thread Rebeccak there's some really useful information here. I decided to have a go at the neptune calming the waves image having been so impressed by the real thing at the Louvre. This is my attempt after a couple of hours.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~leaves/neptuneweb.gif

There are some really nice artwork so far particulary from Rebeccak and idiot apathy.

Amer -nazari : I know the feeling :wink:

[carlosranna]

God damn this beautifull woman face! It´s being hard to get it right!!!

Sorry for bumping up the thread, but i had to say this....

[Mitze]

Really nice work guys. Thanks for the link on how to colour Rebeccak. But i think this is it for me i am beginning to get frustrated with this pic and can't seem to go on i think there is just too much in this pic for me.
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f162/mekese2000/scanny.jpg

[Lee W]

my attempt on number 1 :) noticed some proportional errors, going to start over again.

[Rebeccak]

Gahhh!!! This is the first time in a while I've gotten a notification of replies to this thread, sorry guys!

Here are my updates so far:

http://www.rebeccakimmel.com/gallery/albums/Digital/DigWIP_OFDW-020_01_22.jpg

http://www.rebeccakimmel.com/gallery/albums/Digital/DigWIP_OFDW-020_01_23.jpg

Keep up the good work guys! :)

[Pawlack]

This dress is hypnotizing Rebecca :)
I scanned my sketch and started rendering in ps :)

All crits are welcome

[Rebeccak]

Thanks Pawlack! That's a great start on yours. I am about to commit seppukku myself over this one. Still miles and miles to go:

http://www.rebeccakimmel.com/gallery/albums/Digital/DigWIP_OFDW-020_01_24.jpg

[paperX]

wow Rebecca...i've always wanted to join in on one of these but the workshop's usually finished when i find it...luckily i stumbled upon this thread! <3
so many great pieces already...i think ill just join the majority and do the Biondina... i really like the piece anyway :)

Here's what i have so far:
http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/1447/biondinastudywipvv6.jpg

gonna go clean it up tomorrow

[Pawlack]

Another step :)

[Chardy]

Hi everyone. I am new here and this is my first post in this forum.
I have only been into art for a couple of years (I'm 47 now) so playing catchup bigtime.
http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p5/JohnC_014/classic.jpg

[Rebeccak]

Chardy, great to see your progress, keep it up! :)

paperX, glad to have you aboard! Good solid start, keep pushing those values! :)

Chardy, beautiful drawing so far, and I say it's never too late to do something you love! Welcome to Conceptart and to the Workshop! :)

Experimental 'colorized' version - base layer - the grayscale isn't finished yet.

http://anatomy.cgnetworks.com/OFDW%20020/DigWIP_OFDW-020_01_25.jpg

http://anatomy.cgnetworks.com/OFDW%20020/DigWIP_OFDW-020_01_26.jpg

Keep up the good work guys, and keep posting! :)

[Lee W]

guess this is as good as I can get it ...

[Ian L]

I really like how your picture is progressing Rebecca,b.t.w did you do the colour test like how it shows in the link you provided earlier?.

Mitze: It's a shame you've decided to stop it there, it was looking really nice so far. Hope you'll keep going with it!.

Chardy: looks good and welcome to CA

Oldnoobie: Nice looking piece as well.

Here's my latest update, it's a bit gutting as I've just not as much time as I would like to work on it at the moment. Any crits or comments are most welcome.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~leaves/neptuneweb2.gif

[Pawlack]

Nearly finished :)

[Rebeccak]

Hi everyone,

Please keep up the good work! :) I may be a bit MIA due to the holidays, but I hope everyone has a great holiday season and new year! :)

Cheers,

-Rebeccak

[piratemasque]

Hi everybody, I'm new at this thread but I want to have a go as well, so here's my WIP, I've been going at this for an 1 hr 1/2, maybe 2, wasn't counting much. I've done digital painting before but not really that much like this...or anything this immense. I want to paint her dress but I fear it so...XD

So yeah, I need lots of help, please. ^__^

[Ulver]

Great work everyone! One more attempt:
# 14 "Titan" by Alessandro Algardi (1598-1654)

[Cup of Joe]

Wow, great thread! I saw the link in IA's sketchbook and decided to try this out.
Quick comment, I'll try and do more later- (Warning: I may or may not know what I'm talking about.)
piratemasque - Looking good, but the eyes have a few problems. First of all, eyes are almost never pure white. Also, see how in the original, her eyes are slightly more closed than yours. I think it would help if you dropped your top eyelids a tad. There are also a few unnecessary edges in the nose.

#14 WIP- Fairly happy with this one, but the face is off and I still want to tighten up the rendering a little.

[piratemasque]

Cup of Joe--Thanks for the tips! :D I didn't know that about the eyes at all. What exactly do you mean by the edges in the nose though?

[GriNGo]

http://www.franciscogalarraga.com/misc/practice/caravaggio.jpg

heya all, this is my first caravaggio attempt! and also my first wacom attempt as well.i took about 30-45 minutes in doing so.

[Vishaka]

1/1/07 - replaced image with slight improvements...

[Nigh7shad3]

wow so much energy and inspiration! Happy holidays everyone :)

[AztcFireFlower]

Hey Rebecca, I forgot I could post here too.
The drape on your piece is quite spectacular.
OldNoobie As I said B4, nice and classy drawing of this painting.
Ian L Really nice and solid work. The face and beard have such a nice touch in your seperation of light and dark.
Pawlack Good job. I would say that a small help for centering the point of the upper lip is to line up the center of forehead, nostrils and center of mouth. Draw a line on a another layer to see where this is. It helps to line up features on a grid sometimes.
piratemasque Good job. Your proportions are pretty good. Along with the good feedback, I think what would also help is to soften the transitions on her cheeks. The value changes are very subtle because there is no hard light. If you squint at the original, you'll see that the turning of the form is most soft. The area around her nose can be lighter. In any case you have a pretty good start.
ulver Good value study on the Titan.
Cup of Joe Forms have weight, keep on going.
GriNGoLoCo Good start.......Nice swirly head...........:wink:
Vishaka Think you have a nice start. Once you add some higher lights to widen the contrast it won't feel "muddy". Nice job on the head.

Here's my fnished piece: Lord Leighton's Clytemnestra i had already posted at CGTalk, but forgot the OFDW was running here too. Lay-in and finish in Photoshop. Did a direct painting using a hard round and opacity pressure sensitive brush. Color was eyeballed. As I want to learn to see the color accurately I didn't want to dip the dropper onto the original image color ,as I have done in the past. Instead, I built color in 50% - 100% transparent strokes still controlling opacity by pressure. Used a seperate layer as I worked on each element. e.g. face and chest, hair, clothing. Am learning to control color, value transitions by variable pressure strokes.
This was a thoroughly enjoyable and big learning experience.

[saa]

hey great work everyone!

that's what i got so far, i changed it already 10000 times, now i guess the face is ok. gosh i really didn't think that would be so much work, but i'll finish it definately.

[maxetormer]

Still working on it, a loonnng way to go, but at least I started the initial blocking ;)

[Ivo]

Nice work everyone,looking forward to see the final works :D
Sorry for the big post,i just saw this thread 2 days ago,started painting and i´ve read the rules only today at lunch :O
http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/1530/1pa7.jpg
http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/9648/5ll2.jpg
http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/2239/8dp3.jpg
I decided after some first strokes to add some limitations just get this more like a tradicional way.So one of them was to use just one layer,but i used 2 after the 2nd image above and the other was to just use the round brush,working only with Hardness,Size Jitter ajusted to Pen pressure,Opacity Jitter ajusted to Pen pressure,Smothing selected and Opacity.(i´m using Photoshop)
I´m still working on it..

Hope everyone´s getting a good time and Happy New :blahblah: :blahblah: :blahblah:

sorry saa,edited :) i will post a link for the rest of the images

[saa]

small update.
ivo: that's a nice painting you did. i guess you shouldn't post that many images, for those who don't have such a fast internet connection

[AztcFireFlower]

saa That's a NICE job this piece. You digipaint with great proffeciency.
maxetormer No crits as it's initial block-in. Waiting to see how it develops.
Ivo Love how you handled the feathers. Can feel the fluff and softness.
Texahol :down: Good study. Her face is really pretty close to original. Alot of thought and solid work went into this.

[Texahol]

Thank you so much for this rebeccak, I learned a ton. Not only about personal workflow, but how weak my observation skills are, and how subtle tonal variation can be to make a large impact.
Also, thanks to IdiotApathy for showing me the thread.

I ended up having to do a bit of gridding on the face, because I was having difficulties. It's funny how nice my copy looks until it's sitting next to the original :P
http://www.texahol.com/images/ofdw001.jpg


EDIT: here's my progress gif http://www.texahol.com/images/ofdw1.gif I wish I had taken more progress shots. But this really shows how horrible the initial stages were. I ended up spending somewhere around 12 hours on the image total. I think I worked too big, especially considering I have a 12.1 inch monitor :P Also, I started with poor observations, which just made more work for me in the end :<
fullsize image (http://www.texahol.com/images/ofdw001full.jpg)

[Rebeccak]

Some incredibly lovely work going on here - Texahol, that's gorgeous! I'm really glad you've learned a lot from this - it really shows!

I'm not really back in town til around the 1st, but please keep up the good work everyone, I'm looking forward to getting back to mine. :)

Cheers!

[GriNGo]

heya great work everyone, i decided to redo my attempt, and here is my WIP so far... It's about 4 hours of work. When I finish this one, I'll post an animated GIF of the entire process.

[Rebeccak]

GriNGoLoCo,

Great to see your WIP! :) If I may make a suggestion, I would recommend reevaluating the relative size of the legs and arms as compared to the torso. I would also suggest graying down the face a bit since you are running out of room in the light values - remember to reserve your lightest lights and darkest darks for very selective areas of your painting. A lot of the time when I start to go too light, I will throw a quick mid gray layer either over the entire painting or over the area that needs dulling down - then I'll either erase out using a mask to get my lights back at a more selective level or build up additively with light grays to reestablish my lights. I find that I do this quite often. :) We tend to think of 'light' areas as really, really light, whereas if you take a look at an image in grayscale, you will see that a lot of the light areas actually fall in the midtone range, with only a few small bright areas of highlight.

Hope this helps! :)

[JustinBeckett]

Yesssssssssssss!!! Thank you Rebeccak, im sooo happy you are posting this hear now, i participated in one of those on CGTALK and i got on the year 2 - Number 18 spotlight, i post as warhead82 on cgtalk. I couldn't find them anymore on cgtalk.

Anyways, thanks again haha! This is such good practice.

[Nigh7shad3]

whoah the calibre here's awesome! I'm really digging Ivo's piece. He really captured the subtle stuff in that painting. Nice to see you here too, Rebecca. I remember you from cgtalk's forum-I was participating in one of your life drawing workshops modeled by Ron.

anyway here's my try..im still new, dont be harsh :dead:


Line art
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b61/Nigh7shad3/conceptart_master_workshopline.jpg



Value study
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b61/Nigh7shad3/conceptart_master_workshopval.jpg


Local Coloring Phase
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b61/Nigh7shad3/conceptart_master_workshopcol.jpg

[Idiot Apathy]

Looking great guys,

I've lost my fire on this one, just a quick(er) study though :\ not sure if I'll pick it back up again or not.

Check out the first phase, mad sketching skills hahaha... :P
Still having to toy with the head way too much...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/Ragnarok27/processpartone.gif


From;
Choice 10:
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867)
Study for The Martyrdom of St. Symphorien
Oil on canvas, 1824-1834
Musée Ingres, Montauban

LINK A
LINK B (same ref. as above)

[Rebeccak]

Yesssssssssssss!!! Thank you Rebeccak, im sooo happy you are posting this hear now, i participated in one of those on CGTALK and i got on the year 2 - Number 18 spotlight, i post as warhead82 on cgtalk. I couldn't find them anymore on cgtalk.

Anyways, thanks again haha! This is such good practice.
Hi JustinBeckett, great to see you over here as well! :)

Thanks for telling me that you participated in the OFDWs over on CGTalk - here's the thread you mentioned:

SPOTLIGHT: BEST of OFDW 018 (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=379254)
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=379254

I think maybe the reason you couldn't find the thread is because the SPOTLIGHT forum is closed for posting, so it only gets updated once a Workshop concludes - to see all threads ever created, go to the bottom of the SPOTLIGHT: Best of the Artistic Anatomy and Figurative Art Forum (http://forums.cgsociety.org/forumdisplay.php?f=198) (or of any forum)
and where it says:

Display Options
Sorted From The: Set it to BEGINNING

That way you can see all threads that have ever been posted in that forum, and not just the once that have been updated in the last 30 days, which is the forum default. Hope that helps! :)

Nigh7shad3, glad to hear you have participated on CGTalk as well! I encourage you guys to post in both places!

Tom, your precociousness continues to impress! Keep up the good work buddy. :)

Cheers,

-Rk

[Ulver]

Texahol - incredible work!
one more study:
Choice 17:
Eugène-Emmanuel Amaury-Duval (1808-1885)
La Naissance de Venus [The Birth of Venus]

[Texahol]

idiotapathy, that's actually not a great figure to study for the head. The arm looks nice, but the head [on the original] isn't very good IMO. the ear is far too small, the back of the neck/head is off, and those and mouth seem to be on a different plane than the eyes, and the forehead is really small....to mention a few things that I see right off. Good luck though, if you pick it back up.

[Idiot Apathy]

Rebecca: hahaha ... precocious? :)

Tex: Really? Hmm ... stupid Ingres, needs to go back to school I guess. Still, fufilled what I wanted it for, recognition skills. Thanks for the eye opener though dude.

[invinciblewombat]

took a shot at it, and it came out wonky, fun to do though
http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j254/invinciblewombat/mastercopy.jpg

[Rebeccak]

Tom, accept your precociousness and move on! :)

invinciblewombat, this is a very nice start - I would encourage you to try this or another piece in Grayscale, I think that you would be amazed at how much subtlety there is in the tones of this and all of the master works here - as a test, try grayscaling a version of the reference to see the amazing range of values. I recommend then either adding more subtlety into the tones of your existing piece, or trying a grayscale piece - you will learn a tremendous amount! :)

Cheers!

[n3gative]

had some time at work to get started on these, just saw the thread on thursday

[Chance.]

Here is my WIP. I got started kind of late, but what the heck. Any advice before I go and ruin it would be awsome. N3gative, you are putting me to shame. Good work man.

Once I scanned it and put it next to the original I realized how I messed up Mr posidons lean, but I am afraid it is too late to fix that now. Please just throw any thoughts at me. Thanks

Rebeccak, thanks for doing this! As a young artist fascinated with anatomy its great to have people with your skills hosting stuff like this. I only wish I had noticed it sooner.

[Rebeccak]

n3gative, very nice start!

Rebeccak, thanks for doing this! As a young artist fascinated with anatomy its great to have people with your skills hosting stuff like this. I only wish I had noticed it sooner.
Q-Caddlewick, you're welcome! Glad to see so many participate here. :)

There will be many more OFDWs, and if you wish to be notified of when a new OFDW begins, please subscribe to this thread:

Notification of New Open Figure Drawing Workshops (http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=85911)
http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=85911

You can also, if you wish, check out the previous OFDWs here (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showpost.php?p=2602753&postcount=3).
Additionally, you can see just the best work from the previous OFDWs here (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showpost.php?p=3462029&postcount=1).

Up til now, I've only run these Workshops on CGTalk, but from now on I'll be running the same Workshops concurrently both here on Conceptart and on the Anatomy Forum on CGTalk.

In terms of constructing your figure, here are some demos I've done in the past which I hope may be of use to you:

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b380/rebeccak5/Figure%20Drawing%20Demos/David_Demo_giferator-1.jpg

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a35/rebeccak4/Gestures_Forum/David_Demo_giferator.gif

http://anatomy.cgnetworks.com/00_Anatomy%20Lesson%20Series/My%20Torsos/Torso-Demo-01_small.gif


These paintovers, along with others, can all be found here:

Paintovers & Demos (http://www.foundationalarts.com/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=9;t=30;st=0)
http://www.foundationalarts.com/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=9;t=30;st=0

Hope this helps! :)

[seth1]

ABout 15 20 minutes each Ill go back and finish the head some time... Have to get car insurance now.

[invinciblewombat]

greyscale attempt
http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j254/invinciblewombat/mastercopy2.jpg

[suhsealyuh]

hi there :) im kinda new here. i decided to try number 11- the neptune sculpture:

http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/2743/neptunege8.jpg

the legs look a little short to me..and i cant figure out how to get rid of that wispy blurry look. i wish it could look more solid, like a..sculpture. unfortunately, i forgot to save some wips images, but i still consider this unfinished.

[zhay13]

hi, Rebeccak, long time since the last workshop, so here a I`am again, i hope you like it, c-you soon.

Ingres: this is a exercise for drawing and perception, so no undo, no eraser, no general proportions, no ruler, only follow carefully the proportions inch by inch, c-you

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/zhay13/1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/zhay13/2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/zhay13/3.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/zhay13/4-1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/zhay13/5.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/zhay13/6.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/zhay13/7.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/zhay13/8.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/zhay13/9.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/zhay13/10.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/zhay13/11.jpg

[pheasanteater]

This is my wip for carraveggio's amore. got a lot more to go on this one

[n3gative]

the head shot is coming around nicely seth, should use some unlined paper!

nice step by step zhay

having a tough time with this woman's face and the kid's facial expressions

[Justin.]

I feel now like I should have used those gridding rulers.. I pretty much free handed it, left side of PShop had original, right side had mine...

I also jumped right into color without laying too many things out in line. Features of the face, etc.

[Ian L]

There is some really nice artwork appearing here now.

AztcFireFlower: Thanks for the feedback and I'm glad you like it so far, I really like what you had done it's beautifully rendered and very accurate. I just wish I could get better at using colour ... maybe in 2007 !!.

Ivo: Nice work it's good to see the WIP's.

zhay13: I love your sketches, very impressive.

Justin: I like how it's coming along so far .. it maybe an idea to add a bit more red/brown into the mix especially around face. I wish I had used the grid as well as I've run into some problems with my piece here and there.

Here's my latest upadate:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~leaves/neptuneweb3.jpg

[Katfayheirti]

Here's my Neptune so far.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v469/AmorXRosa/Neptunesmall.jpg

[Chance.]

Neptune has become a popular guy hasn't he. Every one is turning out great work.

Katfay - Cool rendering. Something about the way his forward arm connects is bothering me. Maybe recheck that.

Rebeccack - Thanks for all the resources I'll try to find time to look through all that but I have a slow internet connection so it'll take a while.

Iwombat - Good job on the hair. It looks like the dress could use more work though.

I didn't like my first try to I'm going digital. I'm in the early stages, hopefully I will finish in time. Its amazing how subtle the contours are. It makes it hard to draw. I tried using the opposite curves rebeccack was talking about but it's not coming easy. Just posting it I can see a bunch of things I need to change.

[FabianV]

I know its a bit late but I decided I'll take part and do a master copy of


Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867)
Baronne James de Rothschild, née Betty von Rothschild
Oil on canvas, 1848
55 3/4 x 39 3/4 inches (141.9 x 101 cm)


wish me luck! :x

[GriNGo]

thanks for the pointers rebeccak! I decided to leave the anatomy one aside because I was too lazy to redraw the entire body, but you're suggestion on putting a layer of gray over the entire image was top notch. it definitely improved the overall grayscale usage. now here is my finished piece (and an animation progress gif).. in the end I just pasted the head from the original, cause it was too difficult and small to draw... hope I don't get expelled or anything...

http://www.franciscogalarraga.com/misc/practice/caravaggio2animeOP.gif

the next one to do is the Ingres Self Portrait.. number 6 in the list I believe.

later!
GriNGoLoCo

PS: HAPPY NEW YEAR FOLKS! :yayca:

[seth1]

n3gative : thanks man... Too poor....

Haha... Scaned the drawings underneath,... Ewww

Just slowly working this... I think I may redo it ass it's offfffff

[Texahol]

gringo, you're a lazy bastard.

[Chance.]

30 more minutes

[Ivo]

Great work everyone!
I´m done with this one.

HereChoice 02:
Lord Frederick Leighton (1830-1896)
Odalisque
Oil on canvas, 1862
Private collection
http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/5360/finalpequenovs7.jpg
Original size (http://img155.imageshack.us/my.php?image=finalgzn3.jpg)
Keep up the good work everyone! :)

[seth1]

One day Ill learn to draw. Untilll then DRAWWWWWWWWW ONNNNN>>>

[Idiot Apathy]

Seth! You bum! Don't draw on lined paper! @_@, looks good though.

[Rebeccak]

seth1, lined paper? Really? ;)

Announcement:

I'm not in the habit of extending the OFDW deadlines, but due to the holidays I've extending the final date for this OFDW til the end of (your timezone) day, Jan. 10 - that gives everyone 5 extra days to work on their pieces.

I frankly didn't touch Photoshop during the Holidays (I needed a break!) so I hope everyone is okay with this deadline extension.

So:

This OFDW 020 officially concludes at the end of the day on Jan. 10th.

Happy New Year everyone! Please keep posting! :)

Cheers,

-Rebeccak

[Chance.]

and another several hours of work. The extention will be helpful. I may actually finish it in that time.

This thing is great. I love seeing how differently everyone interprets the same images. It's cool.

[Vishaka]

AztcFireFlower-- thanks for the crit. :) I added some more highlights and replaced the image in my old post. Definitely an improvement.

Started another copy today... I don't have much down yet, but this took me forever. It's giving me a bit of trouble, but I'm too legit to quit. :meow:

[Texahol]

I did another. I had a bit of frustrations on this one. The "high res" copy still wasn't quite enough. When I went in for details on parts it came to smooshing pixels, which was not what I wanted. So I tried to get the gist of everything. This time I didn't use any gridding or value picking like I did in the last one. This also went much smoother, and I found myself able to make better choices the first time. Much quicker study.

[GriNGo]

here is my ingres study until now: about 2 and a half hours:

http://www.franciscogalarraga.com/misc/practice/ingres1g.jpg

[Destinatus]

I did Clytemnestra, I hope it turns out as good as AztcFireFlowers did. B&W for now, I hope I can get enough time to color it. Is this a man or a woman anyway?
http://www.cyber-sky.org/art/Clytemnestra.jpg

[n3gative]

thanks for the extension rebeccak :D

update on my #2

[GriNGo]

Here is my finished study of master Ingres's self portrait:

Still
http://www.franciscogalarraga.com/misc/practice/ingres1i.jpg

Link to the animated progress version: CLICK! (http://www.franciscogalarraga.com/misc/practice/ingres1.gif)

Thanks for the extension Rebeccak! I'll see which one to copy until then...

[FabianV]

WIP - Right now I'm plotting out the proportions through value.. having lots of fun so far.. drawn with oc

http://www.vercuiel.com/conceptart/img/2007-1-3-0.jpg

[Chance.]

Everyone is turning out great pieces.

Destinatus - Excellent job, good values.

GriNGoLoCo - Good work. I like the hatching in the background. You did a really nice job on his shirt.

FabianV - Good start. Don't be afraid to go bold with the values at first and then blend them down as you work.

Another several hours.

[Don DIego]

Hi there you all!
Nice thread, I'll give a try on Caravaggio.
Making the grayscale first. The face is terrible, I'll fix that later.
I know the relationship of the objects on the background are not quite accurate, but I think it doesn't hurts that much does it ;)
oh, and there are no whites yet
http://www.diegosanches.com/images/caravaggio%20study1.jpg

[miljenko]

I hope I didn't breach rules too gravely by deciding to focus only on a detail, i.e. the head of piece number 06 - Ingres selfportrait, although I admit that doing it in whole is a very good composition exercise, my hat goes down to all of you who painstakingly marked your drawings with gridlines. The main reason I did just head was that I wanted to do it in traditional media, and the closest thing to the real media used by Ingres (oil, it appears) I had was acrylic. For that, I used a beautiful 165 lbs paper made for work with this particular medium, but it was too small to use it for the whole painting: its size was merely 23cm x 32cm. However, it was just the right size for the head, so I decided to do it this way. Here is a finished piece (large picture) plus some step-to-step. Please give me your crits! :)

[Chance.]

Nuther day, going slow because of an eye infection.

[pheasanteater]

maybe I had to much to drink on new years eve or Ive just grown some balls or something I dont know why but I decided to just go for it in color.
My new years resolution was to sober up and then not sleep until this damn thing looks decent.

[FabianV]

Update from me :

http://www.vercuiel.com/conceptart/img/2007-1-4-4.jpg

[Destinatus]

Color overlay. This was a strange process I think I will add another normal layer on top to adjust it a bit.
http://www.cyber-sky.org/art/Clytemnestra_color.jpg

[active acidophilus]

Here's my version of Clytemnestra, to add to the bunch!

I drew a basic grid and sketch Wednesday, and painted it Thursday. (Oil on canvas.) A small rant: it's hard to take a good photo of an oil painting...lucky digital artists can just resize and send!!

Every new year should start with a painting...

[LaPalida]

Lovely entry Active Acidophilus :). You did it in record time I gotta say. I suck with oils, or rather I never held a tube in my life and that's true!

[Rebeccak]

Some really good stuff going on here.

Slowly getting back into the swing of things after the holidays: :)

http://www.rebeccakimmel.com/gallery/albums/Digital/DigWIP_OFDW-020_01_27.jpg

[DeathChalupa]

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/1906/masterstudy1copyfo5.jpg
45 minutes or so
based on: http://anatomy.cgnetworks.com/OFDW%20020/006.jpg

[miljenko]

Here's my version of Clytemnestra, to add to the bunch!

I drew a basic grid and sketch Wednesday, and painted it Thursday. (Oil on canvas.) A small rant: it's hard to take a good photo of an oil painting...lucky digital artists can just resize and send!!

Every new year should start with a painting...

I'm speechless, looks even better than the real thing :) . And you painted it all in one day?! Never worked with oils, don't they take days to dry?

[Destinatus]

Finally fixed my color profile, this one should be more accurate. This is probably my final version.
http://cyber-sky.org/gallery/albums/userpics/10002/Clytemnestra.jpg

[Rebeccak]

Some really great work being posted here, it's fantastic to see the mix of traditional and digital! :)

Slowly updating mine, beginning to add jewelry:

http://www.rebeccakimmel.com/gallery/albums/Digital/DigWIP_OFDW-020_01_29.jpg

[saa]

hey people, i see LOTS of great approaches here,

sadly i didn't manage to finish mine, so here is the most recent version:

[Rebeccak]

saa, there is an extension til Jan. 10th, so please feel free to continue to work on your piece until then! :) And, of course, even though the Workshop will end, you are definitely encouraged to continue to refine your piece!

[Rebeccak]

Pretty much done with the jewelry - there was some MASSIVE cheating with the pearls. ;)

I've avoided the lace for as long as I can...I guess it's up next. Yikes.

http://www.rebeccakimmel.com/gallery/albums/Digital/DigWIP_OFDW-020_01_30.jpg

[active acidophilus]

Thank you so much, Miljenko! I set myself a time limit of one day for the painting since I had other duties…You mentioned that oils take a long time to dry; well, it depends if you work thick or thin, and what kind of painting medium you use. I work quite thin, so it’s basically dry in a day or two. (Technically, it’s still drying for a few months.) Actually, I think oils are easier to use than acrylics in that regard, since you can still play with the picture while its wet. But I’m biased: for me, nothing replaces the vibrancy of oil colour!!

I liked your initial sketch of the Ingres self-portrait best, with those dark eyes staring evenly out of their sockets. (I thought there was something funny going on with the ear, but then I saw the original…I guess Ingres just had funny ears…lol) I’m wondering why you chose to work on paper; do you prefer it to canvas? Doesn’t the paper absorb the paint?

Similar comment for Destinatus: I like the second to last version of Clytemnestra better than the last. There’s something amazing about the light glowing off her face.

Rebeccak, you’ve got so much patience…don’t worry about those pearls…I didn’t dare undertake a complicated piece like that! My hat is off to those who did.

[masque]

i found this thread late (i started yesterday morning after finishing a calendar project entry, a Thunderdome piece, and a ChOW attempt in the last month), hope it's OK to post this close to closing. the master image (#15) intrigued me because of its fairly extreme foreshortening, the unusual tonal range of the dark marble's surfaces, and the variety of textures. i wanted to make sure during the painting (Photoshop, using Brush & Smudge tools mainly) that i was modeling the forms as i perceived them rather than just copying the patterns of light & shadow from the photo. the progress shots start with a comparison of the master image and my very quick (and rather inaccurate) gridded sketch, intended only as a rough guideline for initial placment of painted strokes. it was scanned to match the master image size, and both were gridded with guidelines for side-by-side accuracy checks as the painting progressed.
http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/2107/sleepprog01gu2.jpg
http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/1966/sleepprog02yo3.jpg
http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/6694/sleepprog03gi3.jpg
http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/1336/sleepprog04kv0.jpg
http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/3541/sleepprog05gx4.jpg

and the final...
http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/4823/sleepmastercopyfinalat7.jpg

[Rebeccak]

active acidophilus, you did a lovely study - I really commend your using oils! I hope that you will participate in a future OFDW. :)

masque, I think that looks really good, but the main thing I would recommend is that you not color sample from the reference - the main purpose of the exercise / Workshop is to be able to judge value relationships for yourself - so that when you create your own work from reference or life, you can better see / judge value relationships to create better artwork. :)

Great sketchbook btw!

Here's my update - I really, really dread the lace bit:

http://www.rebeccakimmel.com/gallery/albums/Digital/DigWIP_OFDW-020_01_31.jpg

[masque]

all the values used were created by me. the only sampling i did was a single mid-tone from the BG, which i modified in the values slider to create a BG grad to work against (see prog 2). all other tones were mixed or blended, eyeballed from the photo. i liked the pale sepia tint of the original so decided to keep it, as it seemed warmer than a straight greyscale treatment and more suitable for the subject.

[Rebeccak]

masque,

Oh, cool then, my apologies! :) Sorry for that, I didn't mean to offend you. I use the value slider as well.

I hope you'll participate in future OFDWs - there's a notification thread to which you can subscribe here:

Notification of New Open Figure Drawing Workshops (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=85911)
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=85911

Cheers!

[masque]

no offense taken, and you make a good point about sampling. you got me to wondering just how close my tonal range was to the original so i did side-by-side histograms -- mine's flatter in the highlights and also a little in the shadows. visually i can also see a bit more magenta in mine, something i hadn't noticed while working on it, 'cause i guess i was focused so tight on the tonal rendering.

http://img465.imageshack.us/img465/6347/histosgn6.jpg

[GriNGo]

masque- nice copy man! the histogram is nearly equal, now that's a feat..
rebeccak- I want your skills.
destinatus- nice colors!


here is my finished Biondina copy study: Of the three I have done, this one has been the hardest of all.. it just kicked my ass!

here is the still:
http://www.franciscogalarraga.com/misc/practice/leighton1j.jpg

Here is the anim progress thingy:
http://www.franciscogalarraga.com/misc/practice/leighton1.gif

greetings!
GriNGoLoCo

[Rebeccak]

rebeccak- I want your skills.

Heh - here is a really good thread that shows how far a lot of people, including and especially myself, have come. :) A lot of folks, yours truly included, have vastly improved over the course of their participation in these OFDWs:

Before and After - Post Examples of Your Improvement! (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=447305)
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=447305

[Asatira]

Masque: wow! That's all I've got to say. Just, wow.

Rebeccak: I'll check out that before-after thread. May give the inspiration to get off my butt and get over the intimidation I have. :bashful:

[masque]

thank you for the comments, folks -- this has been good fun, haven't done it since i was a kid. started another last night, not sure how far i'll get by tomorrow:
progs:
http://img76.imageshack.us/img76/8382/batherprog01lh7.jpg

a detail, about 2/3 working size:
http://img76.imageshack.us/img76/8188/batherdetail01jj0.jpg
i know i have some proportional issues in the bare shoulder & head, slightly oversize, and i'm still working at the extremes of the tonal range (max highlight and shadow) on the figure so some parts are a little flat still.

i like the classic contraposto of this painting's subject, and the very high-key lighting, which makes for extremely subtle values shifts. i had to smile -- she looks so demure at first glance, but when you get up close to her face she seems to have faint, impish, rather knowing smirk. hope i can preserve that.

[Rebeccak]

masque, great to see your new piece!

Asatira, don't be intimidated! I think if you browse through some of the Sketchbooks of the posters in the Before / After thread you will see how many people have gone from very beginning pieces to very advanced pieces by participating in Workshops such as these. It's a very supportive community both here and on the Anatomy Forum, and you should start up a Sketchbook on one, or both. :)

Finally started on the lace today:

http://www.rebeccakimmel.com/gallery/albums/Digital/DigWIP_OFDW-020_01_33.jpg

[masque]

Rebecca, i'm having serious probs connecting to CA forum threads lately (sometimes no connection for many hours), so in case the same happens tomorrow, i'm posting my progress up 'til now. it needs a little more painting at the bottom and some tonal tweaks, but i need some shuteye more ;)

i have a major Thunderdome coming up so i may not be in the next round, but will definitely watch this activity, i find the exercise very helpful.

at a little under 1/2 size full length, and working size cropped:

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/5125/bathercopyfinfullzx3.jpg http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/9784/bathercopyfindetailtr4.jpg

[Rebeccak]

masque,

I've experienced connection problems too, I've posted to the Support Forum here:

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=86915

Thanks for your participation in this OFDW, and it's been great to see your work! I look forward to seeing your participation again when next you get the chance. :)

[miljenko]

Thank you so much, Miljenko! I set myself a time limit of one day for the painting since I had other duties…You mentioned that oils take a long time to dry; well, it depends if you work thick or thin, and what kind of painting medium you use. I work quite thin, so it’s basically dry in a day or two. (Technically, it’s still drying for a few months.) Actually, I think oils are easier to use than acrylics in that regard, since you can still play with the picture while its wet. But I’m biased: for me, nothing replaces the vibrancy of oil colour!!

I liked your initial sketch of the Ingres self-portrait best, with those dark eyes staring evenly out of their sockets. (I thought there was something funny going on with the ear, but then I saw the original…I guess Ingres just had funny ears…lol) I’m wondering why you chose to work on paper; do you prefer it to canvas? Doesn’t the paper absorb the paint?


active acidophilus: Thanks on your remarks! The paper is just perfect, cuz its a SPECIAL PAPER TO USE WITH acrylics, you dig? :dur: Its a beautiful 165 lb paper that doesn't wrinkle at all: Just a light sketch with a charcoal, and then you apply as many paint-overs as you want! Canvas? Well, I bougth that convenient pre-gessoed canvas, but I am keeping it for something special, maybe a nice little composition of, say, apples, a vase, etc. Never painted on canvas, I guess acrylics will do nicely on canvas, huh? As for the flair and vibrancy: You know, when you use that gloss with acrylics, it sorta resembles that oily brilliance, but I'm no expert! :^^:

[Ian L]

Masque: very nice artwork (#15) indeed !! as it's a particually difficult one to do, but yours is exceptionally acurate.

Rebbeca: it's turned out really well I love how you managed to get the clothing so beautifully rendered.

Here's mine I didn't manage to finish it on time but after the deadline I'll have a go at it again to finish it off. I found the clothing particually difficult so if anyone has any good links to tutorials or any good tips please let me know, thanks in advance.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~leaves/neptuneweb4.jpg

Thanks for running this workshop Rebecca I've learned alot from taking part. Cheers.

Ian:confident

[maxetormer]

masque: Yaikes!! this a detailed piece of work
http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/4823/sleepmastercopyfinalat7.jpg

saa: I think this is my fave, even tho its not finished it pops out of the
page very nicely, so good job on pulling and pushing forms ;)
http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=73650&stc=1&d=1168205958

Ian L: Dude you dont need any tut for the clothes, you are doing great just do lots of fabric till you
can do them with you eyes closed, thats the only trick ;) and DAM!! your doing such a nice work!

Here is Mine I'm not done yet, but ill finish it at my own pace as time allows ;)

[masque]

finished it up and the forum's being polite today, so....

half-size for viewing friendliness:
http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/3421/bathermastercopygsfinaljo6.jpg the full-size version can be seen by clicking the thumbnail: http://img364.imageshack.us/img364/9435/bathermastercopygsfinalty4.th.jpg (http://img364.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bathermastercopygsfinalty4.jpg)

besides the values interpretation workout (i used the color version without converting to GS) i learned a lot about edge control and fabric rendering in this exercise.

[Rebeccak]

I think that these are my finals - at least to meet the deadline. I have to admit that this was one of the most challenging paintings I've worked on - it's incredible to me how Ingres did this in oils - I can't begin to approach the level or finesse of detail in his work, even with the luxury of digital and Ctrl + Z - I barely have the grayscale worked out, and just the beginning of color. I truly tip my hat.

Grayscale version:

http://anatomy.cgnetworks.com/OFDW%20020/DigWIP_OFDW-020_01_34.jpg

A larger version of the same grayscale image may be seen here (http://anatomy.cgnetworks.com/OFDW%20020/DigWIP_OFDW-020_01_36.jpg).

I want to continue working on the colorization of this piece later, but for the time being, I've had quite enough of it. :)

[n3gative]

the rendering on the clothing and jewels is fantastic reb. They really stand out

[Rebeccak]

n3gative, thank you, and thanks for your participation! :)

Open Figure Drawing Workshop 020 - Mixed Masters has now concluded!

Thanks to everyone for their great participation! It's been a fantastic Workshop with some incredible work being produced. I hope that everyone will participate in future OFDWs. Subscribe here to be notified of when the next OFDW begins!

ConceptArt.org Notification of New Open Figure Drawing Workshops (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=85911)
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=85911

and/or:

CGTalk.com Notification of New Open Figure Drawing Workshops / + TUTORIALS - SUBSCRIBE HERE! (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=199&t=379951)
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I'll be working on the SPOTLIGHT thread for this Workshop in the next couple of days.

Cheers, :)

-Rebeccak

[Rebeccak]

I just wanted to let you guys know that I have compiled the following thread for this Workshop on CGTalk:

SPOTLIGHT: BEST of OFDW 020 (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?threadid=450223)
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?threadid=450223

I've included the best work from both OFDW 020 Workshops here on ConceptArt.org and on CGSociety.org - and I've plugged the thread, so it should be getting a lot of attention.

Thank you to everyone for participating! :)

[Pawlack]

Thank you for this great workshop :)

Unfortunately my exams and other work for school killed whole my free time including Christmas holidays :(. I hope next time I'll be more lucky ;)