Bridgman Heads and Faces

More George Bridgman studies. Going through his heads and features at the moment. Very challenging to freehand, but I'm doing my best to keep up.

Bridgman Studies

Been busy doing Bridgman studies. Using the renaissance workshop approach to learning: tons and tons of copies. Heads and figures are from a few months ago, hands are more recent. It's a slow process, but I'm noticing a significant change in line quality.

Here's a snapshot of some of my Bridgman mastercopies:

More Bargues

Hi everyone,

I've been busy practicing and working. Here's a snapshot of some of my latest training: bargue copies. I use them slightly different than what I used to do at the atelier: I measure everything strictly by sight and all of these are done digitally using the Photoshop pencil  live brush.

I try to keep each piece down to no more than 3 hours total.

Week 25 of Nicolaides Challenge

Week 25. This was the final week of the challenge.

I learned a lot, my skill and artistic ability improved in ways I never expected and to the level I never thought possible in such a short time. I will try to find time and energy to do this again (maybe with paint next time) in a year or two.

I hope everyone enjoyed watching the effect of this amazing teaching method. Thank you, Kimon Nicolaides, for sharing your knowledge and for providing superb instruction to generations of aspiring artists.

Week 24 of Nicolaides Challenge

Week 24. Only 1 more week left. This week is in "oil".

Week 23 of Nicolaides Challenge

Week 23 has introduced variations into the gesture drawing exercise: straight-to-curve and subdividing the space inside of the shape of a frame. I find it fortunate that throughout the course, Kimon Nicolaides makes the student go through all the major drills, practicing each one in relative isolation, acquiring necessary skills in a relatively low-pressure environment.

It's tough practice, but it's some of the best art instruction I've had.

Week 22 of Nicolaides Challenge

Nicolaides week 22 is all about drawing with paint (or a digital oil paint brush, in my case). Everything else is almost exactly like week 21: gestures, modelled drawings, anatomy, one nude, one clothed model.

I'm also doing composition studies which I'm not showing here: they look like abstract black and white blotches.