CFD2 Final Project

For my final project for my Clothed Figure Drawing 2 class last semester, I had to dress a model, shoot photo reference, and complete two drawings of a character from the photo reference I shot. We were required to have half-lock folds, a diaper fold, and pipe folds in the drawings somewhere. I used my wonderful husband as a model, and he was nice enough to let me turn him into a total slob for my character assignment.

Here are the drawings of my character, Sloppy Sam:

Lesson Learned: Be creative- a costume and some acting can really help transform your model into a totally different person!

CFD2 Mucha Copy

For homework over Thanksgiving break, we were assigned to study one of the works of the great Alphonse Mucha. (Check out some of his INCREDIBLE artwork here: http://www.muchafoundation.org/).

I picked one of his most lovely decorative panels, Summer 1896. I used colored pencils for this thorough study of Mucha's figure drawing techniques. It was not required to use color for this assignment, but Mucha's use of color was so masterful that I did not want to overlook what I could learn from mimicking his use of color as well as his design and drawing techniques.

Lesson Learned: Line weight is extremely important in figure drawing. Varying line weight adds interest and dimension to the drawing and helps to define overlapping forms and contours of shapes.