Hi everybody,

It's been a while since I posted a drawing here. This time I would like to ask your opinion about what you think between these two drawings better reflect Life drawing skills and why. The first one was done in 30 min and the second one in 2 hours.

Thank you

I'm not sure if I completely understand your question. Both drawings reflect life drawing skills, just different interpretations of a similar pose.

Personally, I prefer the first shorter pose, as the construction lines seem to give it life and the expectation of movement, while the longer pose, while beautifully drawn seems a little too static and illustrational perhaps, as if you redrew the original figure at a later date. But that is understandable as it is your style and the type of figure that you are more used to depicting I think so your comfort level may be in the more streamlined version of the drawing.

In the life classes that I go to, my drawings are loose and quite different from what the tighter drawings that I usually do. I use huge sheets of newsprint and thick chunks of charcoal. We go from 1 minute to about 20 minute poses for a couple of hours, so I never get to develop a very detailed drawing such as this. Nor do our models have as sculpted features as yours does

Thank you IslanderNL,

As usual you are very helpful. Since I have never been to a life drawing class I just wanted to know what the criteria’s are in terms of style, time frame and level of details. I have been doing too much game concept art and now I want to learn and experience with various other styles.

I like the first one best as life drawing goes... the roughness makes it look alive, warm and like a perfect capture of a moment in time, it's beautifull!

Not to say the second version is not beautifull as well, I also like that one, but I guess the best way to say it for me is dat it looks "cartoonish". It's a perfect image, perfectly done, but it looks more like a page straight out of a comic book instead of a life drawing sketch.

Not counting style though, they are both really impressive!

Just my 2 cents

Thank you Lycaryth,

I totally agree with what you said.


*I saved your signature by the way. It is really beautiful.

I like both, but the first one is more "alive" because of the shading. Which is very nicely done btw.
Both looks great, but the first one has a bigger sense of depth.


Christa

Personally, I like the second one. Granted, it's not fleshed out in realistic shading, but I think the stance and proportions are more believable. He seems to have better balance in the second one.

Just my 2 cents.

Hehe, thanks

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