drawing evolution

Model drawing using "artchunk"

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December 2011, in model class we discovered a new material t draw with, it's called "Artchunk"

These are thik pieces of coloured chalk which force you to draw a loser way.

Good for me. :-)

Portrait of Nadine

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November 2011, portrait of my wife Nadine, coloured chalk

Selfportrait

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December 2011, selfportrait drawn while looking in the bathroom mirror, charcoal.

Sketching in acryl

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November 2011, model : An. Quick sketching in acryl.

Classic statue in big scale and different materials.

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Classic Greek Statue

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The Toulouse-Lautrec way of drawing

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Model drawing with ecoline

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Modelclass : October 2011. Model : An.

Still my favorite way of drawing : the linear way.

The other don't feel as a natural way of drawing to me.

Modelclass October 2011

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Black and white chalk. Model : An.

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Modelclass 2011. Model : An.

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Marker Pen Sketch

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Modelclass November 2011

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Trying to put more colour into the sketching.

Model Drawing

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Modelclass October 2011, model : Ann. Different styles, different materials.

Ancient Greec Woman's Portrait

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2009, coloured chalk. An old drawing I found in a corner of our classroom.

Model Sketching

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October 2011, model sketching, trying out different styles, different materials.

Model Class September 2011

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September 2011, model : An. First lessons after summer holidays.

Warming up sketches with different materials.

Sketchbook July 2011

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Cartoon figure

Portrait of belgian artist Panamarenko.

Classic figure in coloured chalk

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A big work from 2010 that coverd the wall in our model drawing classroom.

Negative drawing with gum

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June 2011, charcoal and gum, model : Chris.

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May 2011, pencil, model : Chris

Model drawing series

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June 2011, watercolour pencil, model : Chris.

15 minute sketches

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June 2011, pencil, model : Chris, series of 15 minute sketches

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April 2011.

Broken glass painting

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April 2011

Shoe study

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May 2011. I remember painting this very quickly in between two poses of the model.

Acryl paint sketching

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June 2011, acryl paint, model : Chris. Paint still feels as a new material to me,

but sometimes I mesure to use it the right way. The highest painting worked out well.

Cracked nutshell sketching

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May 2011, bister, model : Chris.

Flamencodancer at rest

2011-06-15T11:44:00.003+02:00

One of the few sketches from my wife Nadine as a flamencodancer that are worth showing.

Strange that when you know someone so well sketching gets tough.

From the sketchbook 06/2011

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Sketch 1 : head from a moviemagazine

Sketch 2 : piece of ivy from the garden

Big scale in black and white

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December 2010, acryl on brown paper.

Big scale

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December 2010, pencil, model : Jan.

Normally I going to school by bicycle which makes it not easy to take big drawings back home.

A rainy evening forced me to take the car. The positiv point was that I could take a lot of big scale drawings with me that way.

It's strange how I slowly made the evolution from small drawing to large scale ones.

Suddenly I love to draw big figures.

Model drawing 09/02/2011

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February 2011, pencil, model : Chris.

We wellcomed a new model.

He has this big, massive body, great to draw.

Doghead studies

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January 2011, pencil. This was fun to draw. I got me a photobook with all kind of dogs from the library and started to sketch. Maybe I'll do something more with these photos.

Model drawing 26/1/11

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January 2011, marker pen and pastel, model : Jan.

I forced myself to use some colours here.

It felt ok afterall.

From the sketchbook : head studies

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January 2011, head studies, pencil and crushed nuttshell

From the sketchbook, firsthalf January 2011

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January 2011.

I started the new year with the good intention to make more drawing sketches at home.

Eye studies

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January 2011, from the sketchbook, some eye studies.

Final session with Sarah

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End of December 2010, charcoal, final drawing session with model Sarah, who's of to Norway now for her photographer's work.

Sketchbook december 2010

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December 2010, pencil.

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December 2010, shades of grey pens, model : Sara.

I'm starting to like more and more to draw the quick, sketching way.

These took only a few minutes.

The pens are the perfect tool.

As I like to use the linear drawing way, I sometimes think

they're good as comic drawing, but are they ok as artistic drawings ?

I really don't know.

I'm still searching for a way to add something more to the drawings.

2010-12-19T17:57:00.005+01:00

December 2010, model : Jan. Some time ago that we had a male model to draw.

Acryl sketches

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December 2010, acryl on cardboard, model : Sara.

I got a lot, if not everything, to learn using paint.

These are sketches made by using acryl.

Studies with Faber Castell pens

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December 2010, shades of grey pens, model : Sara.

These pens are wunderfull to use for quick drawn sketches and

they're also the material that suites the best with my drawing style.

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December 2010, coloured chalk, model : Sara. A few sketches, concentrated on certain parts of the body.

Derwent soluble pencils

2010-11-07T14:23:00.003+01:00

I went shopping in the Schleiper art supplies store this week and bought myself a set of Derwent coloured soluble pencils. Here's the first drawing I made with these new pencils. I think I should try to use more dark/light contrast next time.

Autumn Holiday Week Drawings

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Drawings from my sketchbook. I got the poses from a photographers instructionbook.

10 minutes sketches

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Model : Sara. Different greys of Faber-Castell Pitt pens.

Portrait drawing on Sunday afternoon

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10 minutes sketches

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Painting sessions

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20 th October 2010, model : Sara, black and white acryl on brown paper. During half hour sessions we drew and painted. I often was just not ready with the painting when the model changed position. This is one I could finish.

Sanguine

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13th October 2010, sanguine pencil, model : Sara.

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13 th October 2010, pencil, model : Sara.

Linear drawings

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October 2010, model : Sara, pencil on brown paper. This is the way I like to draw, the linear way. But there's got to be something more to add. A next step to discover.

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September 2010, black and white charcoal, model : Sara. 20 minute drawings.

Interior

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September 2010, black and white charcoal on brown paper. No model available during this lesson but our teacher never lacks inspiration. We drew interiors, an excercise on perspectiv.

This is the kind of drawing I never could have drawn a few years ago,

yes there's an evolution. :-)

Satyr

2010-09-26T13:55:00.002+02:00

September 2010, charcoal. First lesson of the new year and no live model available, so we drew the statue of this mythical satyr. Always fun to draw, there's much light and shadow, and a lot of muscles to discover.
The difficulty here was to draw the swing in the body.

Niels

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September 2010, pencil. Youngster co-student Niels stood as a model here.

Nadine

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September 2010, pencil and watercolour, model : Nadine.

Is it because my wife voluntered to take place as the model ? I don't know.

What I do know is that my drawings were nowhere that evening.

Is there a link ?

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September 2010, model Isis, pencil and charcoal.

Ring, ring, seven a.m.

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August 2010, the vintage alarm clock on my drawing desk always reminds me about the Clash song "The Magnificent Seven" : "Ring, ring, seven a.m., move yourself to go again..."

Photographer's instructions

2010-09-26T13:21:00.003+02:00

August 2010. This time I got inspired by instructions I saw in book about photography.

These are small A4 drawings, I thinks they would look great on bigger scale.

Something I should try on a rainy day. :-)

Cycling drawings

2010-09-26T13:15:00.003+02:00

August 2010, one of the few moments I could spend on drawing this summer.

I was inspired by old photos of cycling heroes.

Drawing school 2010-2011

2010-09-26T10:27:00.002+02:00

A new school year started 1st of September. Can't believe it's already six years ago I had my first lessons. I started art school out of the blue, just having some interest in art, but no drawing past at all.
At first that resulted in basic drawings, but over the years I slowly made progression.
Now, I want to reach a kind of arty level. I'm searching for a few things that can make my work better : like the material that suits me best to work with and an own drawing language.
I'm also searching some practical habits that can help me to make time to draw at home, not easy when you have a fulltime day job.

2009-2010

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Ok, what did I learn and what did I reach concerning drawing lessons 9/2009 until 6/2010 ?
I noticed I'm working quicker when we're model drawing. Slowly colour and volumes appear in some works, although I really love drawing the linear way.
Self-confidence certainly is growing.
On the other hand I have to be attentive for some mistakes that occur time after time, like not giving the right attention to proportions.
The disappointment of the year certainly is the non-concentration that often knocked me down during past winter. A result of a stressfull daytime job. Sometimes drawings were to basic, no inspiration, no attention , nothing artistic to be found.

In Memoriam

2010-08-03T20:31:00.003+02:00

July 2010. Terrible news arrived. One of my co-students died last week during a holiday in France. A heart attack, only 52 years old. Still can't believe this. It seems so unreal that Johan won't appear in our classroom anymore.
He was one of the guys I had great talks with about drawing, art and life in general.
I will never forget our talk during a three hours busdrive to Cologne in Germany to visit some musea overthere. Great guy.
My thoughts are with you and your family Johan. Model class will never be the same without you.

2010-07-31T07:20:00.002+02:00

June 2010, coloured chalk, model : Ruth. Large scale drawing, about 1m20.
I discovered the right colours to represent the human body here and was quite pleased with the result. A good one to end this school year of model drawing.

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June 2010, a warm evening view from our classroom. Our teacher ask to keep things simple for this work. I ended with an almost abstract view and used a Morandi colour palet.

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June 2010. During this lesson we were searching for a kind of vibrating effect in the drawings.

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May 2010, model : Ruth. Two works who could have ended better, but if you don't try... :-)

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June 2010, coloured chalk, model : Isis.

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May 2010, coloured chalk, model : Lavinia.

An attempt to use colour and add volume to the sketch.

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May 2010, pencil, model : Ruth, large scale drawings.

In the upper drawing we tried to put in some background to make the scene more vivid.

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June 2010. Pencil, model : Lavinia. Huge scale.

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June 2010, pencil, model :Lavinia.

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May 2010. 2010 I hadn't much time to sketch at home...work, work, work.

This was an exeption. I found the picture on the www searching information about chairs.

Sprinkling experiment

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April 2010, Acryl on cardboard, model : Ruth.

Isis : different ways, different materials

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April 2010, model : Isis. Drawing session using different materials and a combination of quick sketches and longer drawing times.

Model drawing and foot study

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Mars 2010, pencil, model : Ruth.

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Mars 2010, pencil and watercolour, model : Ann.

Background experiment

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April 2010, pencil and paint. Model : Frank. We did a little background experiment here. The model drawing is ok , but the background experiment...well it's an experiment. :-)

Exemples of non-concentration

2010-04-11T19:43:00.008+02:00

I went through very busy times at work the past half year. It made me thinking about taking a sabbathical year at drawing school. Does it make sense to go for another year like this ? There were to many evenings when I couldn't even concentrate on the model and the paper before me. Maybe it will be better to quit art school for one year and draw at home when I find the time for it. Mid 2011 I can work part time again, just the right time to start the new school year in Septembre. But what will be the consequences when I leave school for a year ? Shall I draw at home ? Shall I loose the skills I learned the past five years ? Will I return to school anyway ? Or : let's think positiv. Maybe the break wille do me good and I can return with an open mind and fresh ideas ? Got some thinking to do...

Co-students

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Mars 2010, pencil. Models : co-students Ann, Christiaan, Kristine and Daniel.

One of those nights when the model didn't show up, we were models for our collegues.

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January 2010. Pencil. Model : An.

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January 2010. Pencil. Model : An. An exercise on darkening the figures.

Michelangelo figure in sanguine

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February 2010. Sanguine pencil.

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February 2010, pencil on yellow paper.

A difficult exercise on perspectiv that worked out really well.

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January 23 and 24, 2010. Exercises to improve the speed of human figure sketching.

I used the Posemaniacs' website tool "30 second drawing". One can choose 6 sorts of speed the randommachine shows the poses. I've choosen the 60 seconds interval. It's a great way to upgrade your drawingskills. A minute goes quickly, so full concentration is necessairy.
I did two sessions of half an hour and drew tons of these poses. Above are a few examples.

Michelangelo figure

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January 2010, acryl.

A detail taken from a larger work of Michelangelo.

Yet this is another portrait in a few weeks. I really get the taste. :-)

There are more to come.

Leni Riefenstahl

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December 2009, acryl.

A Leni Riefenstahl portrait.

Michelangelo figures wet in wet

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December 2009, ink, water, wet paper.

As an exercise in working in a more loose way we painted Michelangelo's figures.

Fun to do. You work quick and have a few paintings in some reasonable time.

And as the painting still changes as it dries, you get curious for the results. :-)

2009-12-29T10:59:00.008+01:00

New Year's month is portrait time on http://www.differentstrokesfromdifferentfolks.com/.

It's seems to become a good tradition that we draw or paint eachother's portrait as a kind of New Year's gift. I got send a picture of an intense looking lady.

I made a few versions of the picture.

I took me a few sketches before I got used to the form and expression on the face.

To make the drawing resembling to the reference photo takes a lot of sharp looking to get a good interpretation on the paper.

Looking back I think I wanted too bad to make the drawing looking as the photo.

Maybe I should have tried an experiment with a more loose way to make the portrait.

Something to remember for a next portrait.

But I made the best of it, hope the lady can live with it. :-)

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December 2009, pencil, model : Ruth.

Self Portrait

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December 2009, coloured pencil. Positiv : I like the way I used the colours. Negativ : the head is to wide and the eyes could be drawn better. But...every selfportrait looks a little it better, so we're getting somewhere. :-)

David Hokcney - Catherine Deneuve

2009-12-09T12:39:00.002+01:00

07/12/09, pencil. Past few days I'm totally into portrait drawing.

The first drawing represents a still from the French actress Cathérine Deneuve as she appeared in the Luis Bunuel movie "Belle de Jour".

The upper drawing is David Hockney. His picture was on a cover from an artbook.

Michelangelo

2009-12-05T14:46:00.002+01:00

2/12/2009, pastel pencils, interpretation of a typical Michelangelo head.

One of our teachers has this huge, heavy, beautifull illustrated book about this artist.

A week ago I made another Michelangelo head during the afternoon drawing session.

We made some coloured copies so I could exercise at home.

Seagull

2009-12-05T14:42:00.003+01:00

30/11/09, sanguine pencil. Sometimes we leave the path of model drawing.

This afternoon I spent a few hours on drawing this stuffed seagull.

She was a perfect model, didn't move at all. :-)

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2/12/2009, sanguine pencil, model : An. A busy evening with a lot of 10-15 min. sketches.

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November 2009, pencil and charcoal, model : An.