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Gil Elvgren Master Copy

I have been working on a number of things in the last months, but have completely abandoned this site for a while (shame on me!). I figured I would start posting again, starting from the newest piece.

This is an 8 hour-ish master copy after Gil Elvgren. I was trying to study how to render more feminine subject, and incidentally noticed all of his paintings use frontal lighting to accentuate the roundness of the forms. Conte and Wollff’s Carbon charcoal pencils on smooth newsprint.

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Life drawing

Life drawing in conte charcoal watts atelier method

 

A series of quick sketches from the last life drawing session.
After the model kept insisting on the absolutely irrelevant poses (like the middle one, on the left) I decided it was time to (kindly) ask her to do something a little more dynamic, and she grabbed a chair. Next will be having a better lighting! Getting there little by little.

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