Observational Drawing Part Two

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Observational Drawing Part Two

Lesson by

Morgan Weistling

in Portrait Painting in Oil Without a Brain

483

Assignments 17Lesson NotesDownloads 1

Part two of the observational drawing section of the first oil demo. Again, follow along with me here.

This might not be an exciting lesson to watch, but it will show a less rigid way of drawing relative to the grid method.

Salem M

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1mo

Oh man...this is much harder without the grid lines. Not really 100% happy with the way it turned out. I feel as if the face could have been a little wider to the right to make room for larger eyes and maybe a little longer nose. Something about the jaw line also looks bubbly to me. Not really sure. I keep thinking in my head "beautiful shapes beautiful shapes" and I end up doing the complete opposite lol

Morgan Weistling

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29d

You don’t have to abandon the grid just yet. You can expand it to be less divide as you get stronger with your observation skills.

robbie

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1mo

i tried using the diagonal line grid. great class so far

Morgan Weistling

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29d

I can tell you have a naturalness with making nice looking shapes. This is going to be really a nice painting.

Lucas Barrett

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2mo

I draw much better freehand. I found myself struggling to find a likeness through grids and rigorous measuring and I ended up overworking the sketch. I practice a lot of loose quick sketches with moving models for my line-of-work. It was a good exercise, but I prefer the more intuitive approach. Next time I will start with a lighter background to provide more contrast.

Lucas Barrett

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2mo

Looking at this thumbnail version my grid looks off by a little and that middle third is taller than it should be. That measure twice principle probably would have helped.

Debra Heard

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2mo

I'm Enjoying your class very much!

Morgan Weistling

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2mo

you are doing good. be deliberate with every area and compare to make sure you are being accurate. You have it down pretty good. watch the drawing of his right eye. get those little light shapes as correct as you can with constant rapid eye movement back and forth.

@omnesilere

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4mo

Starting at 8:35 there's some strange audio stuff happening.

Moses Lee

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3mo

creeepy

@keiimotoleyendoshi

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3mo

haunted 2nd audio track

Peter Habjan

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4mo

Drawing to be painted using the grid method and vine charcoal and kneadable eraser. Any feedback is welcome, Thanks

Morgan Weistling

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4mo

because you followed the grid your drawing is very accurate. I hope you found that to be helpful in placing your head. Now keep that kind of objective abstract type of thinking as you move into paint.

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Morgan Weistling

Award winning fine artist represented by @legacygalleryart in Scottsdale AZ