JenB

I found a great website today.  It's artmodel tips.com and is a great source of material for figure drawing.  In particular there are lots of naked poses, which is what's really needed for figure drawing, let's face it.  And it feels a bit more respectable looking for material on that site than going through the submissions of exhibitionists on DeviantArt.  And there's no way I'm going onto porn sites looking for material.

Anyway, today's starting point was a photo of a model called JenB.  I used the inktense pencils on this but followed an idea from the Bill Buchman book and bulked out the form first with the pencils on their sides.  After that, I wet all the pencil marks with water brushes and blended them together.  Then, while the paint was still wet, I drew in a few outlines, not worrying too much if the outlines didn't match the masses.  I let the paint escape out in places and added just a v-shape to suggest that head.

The final result is pretty good and feels energetic, which definitely ticks a box.  The worst thing about it is that the blue shades on both sides of the body look too similar - the idea was that the indigo shade on the right should have been darker than the blue on the left.  Maybe I let the indigo stay on the brush and contaminate the opposite side.  Oh well.

This one's up for sale.