31 août 2010
16 août 2010
Live caricatures
2 gigs in one day...ouf...I don't do this often...Here are a few of my models...The cow-boy was done live, then I redraw him in studio.
10 août 2010
9 août 2010
2 models I drew live today
Drawing from live models is always a challenge. Some models are easy to captures while others need a lot of experience and skill from the artist to get the likeness. Here are 2 models I drew today. I like to draw couples because you can compare one head with the other and, starting from that, accentuate the differences. In this particular case the two shapes of the heads are really different which helps a lot in capturing the likeness.
2 août 2010
Working with negative space
The negative space is the area outside of the drawing. It's the blank part of the sheet and it's very important in drawing. Today, I tried to leave less than 50% of blank space. It was a great challenge! Here are a few caricature I did on monday.
1 août 2010
Simplifying things
Lately, I have visited Angie Jordan's blog and I was truly impressed how she captures likeness in an incredible economy of lines ( see on Angie's blog the caricatures she did on july the 30th...they're amazing). She really does great live caricatures just with the minimum of details. So at work today, I decided to have fun and to simplify my caricatures. No shadings, no bodies, no hands, no color and often, not even the name of the model. Pure line is so fun to work with!...Thank's to Angie Jordan for being my inspiration to improve my work today. Here are a few samples that I drew on this sunny sunday !And just this last word, I like to see what other artists do, not to copy them (which is to my belief the worst thing to do) but to find some tricks or some different way of doing that helps us to find our own style which is not always an easy task. When an artist has a style and that you don't have to read his signature to know who he is, believe me he's a winner in my opinion.
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