Academy of Realist Art Blog

Figure drawing students spent a few days at the beginning of spring quarter drawing one another. Coupled with a series of lectures the emphasis of these small studies was to use flat planar values on the face to describe the volume of the head. You can see Stephens cartoon and 3" planar study of Lindsay. He is keeping the lightest and brightest values for areas of the forehead and upper cheek. The rest of the values progressively darken as they explain the planes that are farther away from the light. Lindsay took her 3" study of Stephen a step further by refining the conceptualized planar values. Both students will be working on an extended finished drawing of one another. We will post them when they are complete.