Figure studies

I finally got around to posting the figure studies from the class Scott and I have been going to. Every class goes the same, an hour or so of hating art and not being able to draw at all, followed by an hour of being bored and finally like 20 minutes of decent work, or something like that.The first here was really stressful because he started shaking after around 5 or 10 minutes and after that it was a white knuckle, sweat drenched, bomb-defusion ordeal. I like how the back turned out though. I am trying to get my contour lines to merge better with my shading - right now they seem like 2 different styles stuck in an unhappy marriage.


I'm moderately happy with the way this one turned out. I really like the knees - I live for little areas like that. I also got lucky on the hand - even though it looks a little wooden and small - I still like the structure of it. I also really like the way the shading and contours came together, especially on the leg.





Check out that hair clip and hair texture! It looks like a real illustrator did that part.
The rest is pretty dull and uniform. I am constantly getting stuck in these angles with no discernable tonal variation - why is it that figure drawing classes always insist on turning on ALL the spotlights, ALL the way around the model??? Why not leave a few off on one side so we can get some cool shadows and gradients.

This one is pretty decent. I may go back and watercolor it. The little shading contours didn't come out so well in the pic here but they give the figure a neat wet shiny look. The foot looks too small - I dunno. I spent a lot of time working out the proportions on this one.


Well, Overall I like the studies and I could feel myself getting incrementally better a few times but overall it's more humbling than anything. I would love critiques on any of these and sorry for the poor photo skillz.