Don‘t take pictures of others without permission
Just another after-lunch scene
Charles-Alfons du Fresnoy, De Arte Graphica, 1669
Life drawing teaches a lot about oneself
I think that the need I have to draw the human figure and to learn how to portray it, is perhaps a desire to get closer to the other and the drawing gives me that possibility.
…I used to start with the eyes 3
Everything comes by itself, the mouth, the curve of the neck, even the hands…
Alla prima
“Colors float with this technique, often unpredictable and uncontrollable. We will try to learn how to enjoy the chaos water provides, and see it as an adventure which can give new input for future creativity. After a bit of practice, this technique can become a...
…I used to start with the eyes 2
„Plasson: it happens that all the rest just follows, it‘s as if all the other pieces slip into place around that initial point by themselves, there‘s not even any need to (stop)
…I used to start with the eyes 1
when I painted people‘s portraits, I used to begin with the eyes. I would forget all the rest…
Clarisse Lispector
Where does the ocean begin, Bartleboom?
. PLASSON - Éste es el problema: ¿Dónde empieza el mar?Bartleboom permaneció en silencio.Iba y venía el sol entre una nube y otra. Era el vento del norte, siempre el mismo, el que organizava el silencioso espectáculo. El mar continuaba imperturbable recitando sus...
1. August am Bodensee
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Figure drawing from sketchbook 01
Figure drawing from sketchbook 01
Figure drawing from sketchbook 02
Life drawing is something special
Drawing a living model is something special. You have, before your eyes, someone who also observes you and opposes you, another person; and this inhibits, demands from you a new way of attention. When you stand before someone to register his image, both the model and...
Looking, seeing, posing, being silent, and just drawing
Life drawing is not simply drawing a human figure, something you can do from other drawings, from a photograph or from memory, alone in your home, regardless of time, place, or the clothes you are wearing; at life drawing, as the name already says, you are in front of...