Colorful Pose

Phil strikes a colorful pose. This portrait study started as a charcoal drawing of the model, the drawing was photographed and opened in Photoshop, then multiple roundtrips between Photoshop and Corel Painter to add color, brush strokes, texture, and multiple color adjustments. Now I'm wondering if this stage would make a good underpainting for another stage. Hmmm.

Painting Phil

Beginning stage of a painting of Phil, last Tuesday's model,  using Corel Painter. Working digitally enables me to use the original life drawing as an underpainting. When this stage is finished, it could turn into another underpainting. We'll see.  

Phil Fills In

A new model who was scheduled for last night's Tuesday drawing group didn't show up, so Eric (the gallery owner) put a call in to Phil, one of our frequent models.

A couple of warmup sketches. 

Instead of 45-minute poses, our group of four decided to limit poses to 20-30 minutes.

A portrait. Not that good a portrait, but a nice break from full-figure drawing.

This drawing of the model doesn't make him look as muscular as it should.

The last drawing of the night does a better job of showing Phil's hulky body. And pony tail.