Nina – 16-08-23
Slender Body
This graphite pencil drawing ‘Nina – 16-08-23’ is the second I made of this beautiful model. Her portrait I drew a week ago and I fancied doing another one. Her slender body offers me a new perspective on artistic forms I can draw from the female form. For those who missed out on her links: visit her website or profile on deviantart.com: ‘NinaErotique’. It’s like every model has her signature pattern designs. Obviously, that makes every woman unique. Both straight and round forms combined I saw this time. Next to these I depicted her on a glass table in the nude. I’d say, enough challenges to face and find solutions for.
Tonal Troubles
Unlike ‘Neo Deco – 02-08-23’ and my last oil ‘Neo Deco – 10-08-23’ there weren’t many tonal differences to hold on to. This has got nothing to do with her fair skin tone. That’s because even people with pale ones can show a full array of values. It was all about the subdued lighting in the scenery. That’s where I knew I had to come up with a dramatic solution in the form of ‘solarization’ once more. Frankly, I was also curious how my solarized concepts would look like on Ingres paper. Hitherto I made them on Bristol paper only due to smooth transitional possibilities.
Powerlines
Soon I found out I had to rub a lot of planes out with a stumper. Otherwise they would have looked too crumbly. That’s what Ingres paper allows and can do. Primarily it’s suitable for impressionist themes, I think. But hey, I never back down from a challenge. I came up with the solution to enforce linear structures and made them thicker and darker. Some might call them ‘power lines’. They strengthen the overall composition I think. They offer structure and thus guide the viewer through the artwork. I made sure I also let her body flow into the negative space as well. Otherwise the positive form of the body would have appeared too separated from the negative space. Not her hair though! I erased the light paper back around it and by that a sor
This graphite pencil drawing ‘Nina – 16-08-23’ is the second I made of this beautiful model. Her portrait I drew a week ago and I fancied doing another one. Her slender body offers me a new perspective on artistic forms I can draw from the female form. For those who missed out on her links: visit her website or profile on deviantart.com: ‘NinaErotique’. It’s like every model has her signature pattern designs. Obviously, that makes every woman unique. Both straight and round forms combined I saw this time. Next to these I depicted her on a glass table in the nude. I’d say, enough challenges to face and find solutions for.
Tonal Troubles
Unlike ‘Neo Deco – 02-08-23’ and my last oil ‘Neo Deco – 10-08-23’ there weren’t many tonal differences to hold on to. This has got nothing to do with her fair skin tone. That’s because even people with pale ones can show a full array of values. It was all about the subdued lighting in the scenery. That’s where I knew I had to come up with a dramatic solution in the form of ‘solarization’ once more. Frankly, I was also curious how my solarized concepts would look like on Ingres paper. Hitherto I made them on Bristol paper only due to smooth transitional possibilities.
Powerlines
Soon I found out I had to rub a lot of planes out with a stumper. Otherwise they would have looked too crumbly. That’s what Ingres paper allows and can do. Primarily it’s suitable for impressionist themes, I think. But hey, I never back down from a challenge. I came up with the solution to enforce linear structures and made them thicker and darker. Some might call them ‘power lines’. They strengthen the overall composition I think. They offer structure and thus guide the viewer through the artwork. I made sure I also let her body flow into the negative space as well. Otherwise the positive form of the body would have appeared too separated from the negative space. Not her hair though! I erased the light paper back around it and by that a sor
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