Patrick Bosworth
Patrick Bosworth
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Gannon Beck
Finally getting a chance to put some time into this Steve Rude master study again.
Patrick Bosworth
Fantastic value control here. After seeing your color study I can't wait to see this come together.
Patrick Bosworth
I started rendering the spheres in charcoal using Conte 2B/White on smooth newsprint, then repeated the exercise in graphite with 2H, 2B, 4B, and 8B pencils. One of my main struggles was pushing the lighter values dark enough, and keeping the gradient transition smooth and even. I tend to start light and build up slowly, but I often stop too early—so most of my spheres end up too light or high-key, even after multiple layers of rendering. Some of the transitions are patchy and uneven as well (which I can see way more when they’re viewed as small thumbnails!) For the untimed spheres, I gave myself between 45 minutes to an hour each. I didn’t change my overall approach much for the timed versions, but I noticed some differences as the time decreased. The 10-minute version felt fast, but I liked how it came out a little more stylized. Since I didn’t have time to smooth things out, the first, more gestural marks remained visible, which gave the drawing a certain energy that I actually enjoyed. In the graphite version, the reflected light came out too light, but I focused on using cross-contour marks to help reinforce the spherical form. In the 5-minute studies, I realized I spent about 50–60% of the time just getting the lay-in right and making sure the sphere looked proportional. That didn’t leave much time for rendering. Charcoal helped here—I was able to lay in darker values more quickly and shift my focus to halftones sooner. I also tried a 5-minute graphite version using a blending stump and a quicker, more gestural hatching approach. The stump helped build value faster, which gave me a bit more time to suggest cross-contours and pull out highlights with an eraser.
Rachel Dawn Owens
Stephen Clark
Patrick! These are incredible! @Charlie Nicholson@Hannah Lim@Kimberly Lee-Lewis Adams and I love your balls!!
Kimberly Lee-Lewis Adams
Patrick Bosworth
A study of a Chien Chung Wei demo, I really learned a lot from this one. His extreme simplification of background elements to large washes of warm and cool really struck me. I love the feeling of over exposed light seeping through the leaves. It's a fun photography trick to try to emulate. Also a quick sketch from a photo I took in Lake Tahoe a few years ago. I'm far less happy with the overall composition of that one, the bench became a tangent no matter how I tried to scoot it around. Should have played around with some thumbnails before hand, but I was mostly concerned with putting brush to paper with the short time I had to paint. On to the next ones!
Gannon Beck
That light effect is super-cool!
Jyayasi (*Jay-o-she*)
Great study. The interplay of warm and cool really makes it so interesting. Yes, thumbnailing always helps to fix composition. Your sky looks beautiful. If you want the sky and the mountains to be the main story, you can think of foreshortening the sea some more to avoid tangents or cropping the bench as in a close up shot. But it’s really better to try multiple paintings rather than being hung up on one.
Gannon Beck
I did this as a preliminary study for a class I take with Julie Pollard. 4" x 6"
Patrick Bosworth
This has a Bill Watterson foliage vibe, love it!
Jyayasi (*Jay-o-she*)
Study from a painting I found on pinterest.
Patrick Bosworth
Great work! Love the indicated foliage in the foreground. Beautiful negative/positive shape over the water reflection.
Gannon Beck
More mini-master studies. The first one is a study of Steve Rude and the second one is a study of Tony Couch.
Patrick Bosworth
These are incredible little color bombs! I love the idea of doing a mini-master study like this. What size are you working here?
Patrick Bosworth
Check out The Animators Survival Kit by Richard Williams. There's a book and a DVD set you can trackdown online. https://tinyurl.com/2fj2nbtz
Dennis Yeary
awesome this will help immensely
Lin
Lin
1mo
Hitting 1.5 years in a few days!! Here is stuff going back in time chronologically vs one of my first figures and my first very frustrated head from imagination from day 1. (embarrassing to look back on but motivational to keep going) Line quality isn’t the best due to the neuro tremor but hopefully we’ll find a way around it as confidence builds.
Patrick Bosworth
Congratulations! This is incredibly inspiring progress!
@dooby
I forgot how satisfying it is to do these very precise drawings with all the crisp, clean lines. The actual Break Pad itself has this tiny zip tie holding everything together. When doing the orthos I just ignored that since it's not really part of the main object
Patrick Bosworth
Super clean!! Nice work!
@rcworshop
Fun exercice even if the details on the hand got me distracted and the result is not there. By the third one flow was more easy to do. Warming up!
Patrick Bosworth
These are looking pretty good! Keep it up!
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