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Structural Life Drawing with Gary Geraths (Otis College)
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frick i didnt get accepted on my first try to otis but now im taking all art classes and gonna re apply for fall 2010 please accept me this time lol
Great video – very interesting. Even if you don’t use these techniques you can learn quite a bit by seeing them being used.
Maybe measuring up isn’t always necessary but it can give you confidence in your proportions and can really help with foreshortening. Will check out other stuff by the artist.
technical.. but it’s good and helped
It looks like a Sanguine Conte’ Crayon….
After you’ve done a fair amount of life drawing you don’t need all of that information though and can infer from past study things that aren’t clear enough in a photo. It’s perfectly possible to construct a figure with the same techniques you’d use from a live model with a photograph
it looks like he’s using conte pencil
with what kind of pencil or whatever is he drawing??
Ya know, Boris Vallejo has said that when it comes to photographs, which he uses all the thime as he is short sighted, one cannot ever say that the old masters would never have used a photograph. Concept artists and illustrators use photos alot as they are under tight deadlines and need to use photos to draw certain things.
This method is alot more complicated compared to other techniques. I have seen better which don’t nearly complicate the figure half as much as this.
you learn to do quite abit of it just by looking after a while. But its good to do it all in the beginning.
LOL, I hope he doesn’t play that music during the actual drawing workshop sessions.
A photograph is only an illusion of what is present in the three dimensional world. Therefore, you cannot accurately draw a photograph to get the same effect of three dimensions because a drawing is also a two dimensional representation. It would be like tracing something and then tracing the second copy again. You would not get as quality results. Also, when an artist is drawing he does not stand in the same place the whole time. It is necessary to get other views to see it from all sides.
That seemed complicated…..
Well all I can say is wow! you have alot of knowledge on this stuff,but your Gary Geraths my long lost High School Buddy
I always new you were a smart guy smile
you haven’t changed that much lol…
Rita from our High School
A photograph cannot substitute for a live model when the artist is constructing rather than copying the model.
There are several visual cues that our eyes use (such as stereoscopic vision) again three dimensional form that are destroyed by photographs.
great but jesus shut off that shitty music
Nude life drawing is the BEST! A real model is the best model, to really see muscle definition and the art form of a human body. 5 Stars. You will only understand this if you had a class.
I really don’t see the point in having live models for drawings anymore. x.x The person drawing is sitting in one point and is drawing a 2D picture so he doesn’t need to have a half-naked girl standing in one spot for hours without moving. The person drawing could just use a photo for the exact same effect.
It was needed in the past but as soon as photographs was invented this crap should’ve been considered redundant and stupid.
SHOW US YOUR TITS!
im intrigued, plz upload some.
it’s gonna take him a long time to get rid of those construction lines
People that draw like that are really gifted and talented. As they can draw anything and everyting, that they set their minds too.
høw cøme everyøne is all stuck on drawing human bødies? i think it’s much møre interesting to study letters or cheeze its.
This is a great video, but way over my head, unfortunately. There’s so much information in here, but he (you?) speaks really clearly the whole way through, and the voice-over is really well sync’d up with the visuals. Great job.
its just a life drawing, very simple.Hope that we go far from basic prespective which can be very cold and lacking inspiration. , yes your vedio is important ,but please show the true beauty of life to your students,- that is flesh ,spirit that makes us human and brings a true meaning to art.
I bet they call him Gary Giraffes at Otis.