When I work from a photo or from memory, I tend to get more imaginative and more expressionistic with my art, since I hate to copy photos verbatim, and my imagination can be interesting at times. Yet, when I work from live models, I think I capture more of the expressions of the individual at the moment, and nuances I'd never capture from a photo.
Quick studies in an illustration class at CVA, using live models. I hated the class, hated the teacher, although I did learn from the class. The teacher would say, "okay, here is the live model, paint a potrait in less than an hour." Well, she didn't say that in those words, but that is what she expected, and me being not used to oil painting, it was quite a challenge. These are two of maybe six of the portraits I painted in "the less than an hour time constraint," that I think are okay, felt I captured the personalities of the models.
MEDIA: oil on masonite |
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I had more female than male models in this class, and I do like drawing from a female model more than from a male, more curves and such, and the female models seem more comfortable with their nudity in front of the artists, than do the male models. Besides, I could never get the penis right, so when I sketch a male model, I vaguely sketch that part, or leave it out entirely, like the second from left photo above. Sketching boobs are more interesting, they come in a lot more varied shapes and sizes than does a penis. Media: some in charcoal, others in ink |
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