[Affected]

In Vienna for a few months now, hopefully I'll take this opportunity to use any free time I have to draw and paint more than I have recently. Been here a week, too much running around and bureaucracy and lost (and found) luggage to get too much done yet. Starting, though:


I kind of messed up. Should go buy gouaches, that white paint marker is kind of messy.

[fruity_loops]

Hey, thats a nice sketch of the Rathaus

If you're looking for a good shop to buy some equipment, check out "Boesner".
It is a little hard to get there, but you can find pretty much everything there:
http://www.boesner.com/oesterreich/aktuell.html

Looking forward to see more of you

[Max]

Nice! I like it!!

Hey, you're in vienna? that's cool. What are you doing here?
I live nearby. If you are bored or something tell me. Always open for some sketching sessions ; )

[Stewart one]

Nice work! I like the sketchiness of it.
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[Affected]

I completely forgot there might be more austrians here... gLitterbug recommended Boesner to me already, haven't been yet though. But, I'm up for meeting people, just need to set a time and place. Next week maybe? I'm here on student exchange until the end of January, but my education at Angewandte hasn't begun yet, so I don't know how time-consuming that will be. Starts next week.

Anyway. To the point. Haven't managed to draw much at all yet, too much getting stuff sorted out still, but here's what I have:




Still really messy, I feel I'm struggling a lot here. Any line not drawn with a ruler seems to look like shit... Oh well. More struggling required.

[notic]

nice! keep struggling

[Affected]

Visited Bratislava, didn't have time to stop and draw much, as I wasn't alone. Took photos though, I guess I'd better start putting a reference archive together at last.

[Max]

Nice Drawings. Especially your architectural stuff is great!
Bratislava is very nice. Have you been to this castle on the top oof a hill somewhere in/beside the city? (been there years ago)

[Affected]

I started thinking about why something is missing from the buildings I've drawn, and I concluded it's because I do shade them, but don't really have any midtones on the buildings, so the forms don't really pop out very well. Primed some sheets of paper with gouache wash, the last pic is the first try. Not so much a drawing anymore though.

[the_insider]

that last one's awesome..love the gouache...good quick sketch material...i wanna see more in this style
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[the_insider]

that last one's awesome..love the gouache...good quick sketch material...i wanna see more in this style
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[Naeem]

im loving this sketchbook! definitely keep posting. i'll be checking in every day.

[Affected]

First AKTZEICHNUNG class today. 15 mins a pose. Kind of ashamed to post really, turned out way crappy, although at least I started to get a bit more loose towards the end of the session. Tomorrow I'll try to concentrate on actually drawing the whole body...

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Quite a bit of drawing today. Kind of forgot to eat.



Radio building in Bratislava



Really hard to take any decent pictures with this camera and the lights I have at my disposal home. The gouache-et-ink piece really suffered a lot. (that front edge is not curved in the original...)
Btw, does anyone else feel that warming up really helps with drawing? I mean that the first drawings of the day always kind of suck, but after a while the flow gets way better. I did that architectural piece today first, then went to the life drawing classes, and that seemed to work pretty well, in terms of not feeling like my hand is a brick.

[fruity_loops]

Wow, the Bratislava one is great!

[Sonia]

very skillful and so nice

[Lean Bean McQueen]

Inspiring sketches! Keep it up.

[Gort]

Awesome stuff!!
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[Affected]

More stuff:

Really don't know what I was thinking. Whatever it was, boy did it ever fail.


Trying to draw faster, simpler. Didn't really work out, yesterday was not a good day in general it seems. Figured I'd try the same approach again the next day.

And did. To hell with line quality, focusing on proportions, weight distribution, speed:


On the right, moving model:


Starting to lose concentration...


Then ran out of large paper, switched to pen and A4 sketchbook for one last quickie.


Anyhow, obviously a lot of work to do still, but I think I managed to simplify my approach a bit, and certainly speeded it up a lot. These were mostly 15 minute poses, and within that time I tended to finish two drawings with a little time to spare. Need to work on legs and feet, I have trouble seeing the forms, and it follows that the drawings suffer as well.

[Matthew]

ok regarding line quality: I can see that you give your drawings an even pressure when drawing. A line can be made attractive with making an un-even pressure, like fade.
So if an elbow points to the viewer direction make it the darkets closest to us then fade it from that point, u know what I mean? hmm hard to explain.

/In the architecture: use three different thickness, things in the back thin and things up front more thick. This gives you depth ah hell u know these things so bash me if I am stepping overline here.
I prefer sloppy lines though in drawing, the more sloppy the more attractive.
So let us see some architecture without ruler, if you do a hundred it will after a while get easier without the ruler.
/later

[Affected]

Matthew: just say what you feel like saying, let me worry about whether or not it makes sense.
Guess I need to step up the drawing a bit, haven't been doing much archi now.

There's an elevator with very nice lighting at school. Didn't quite get it though.


Forgot my papers home today... Photoshop:

[Capt. Fred]

Cool work affected, enjoyed looking through.

BTW is that a shlong indicated between penultimate woman's legs? Lower half of the body (excluding shlong) is very nice. And the naked life model wearing glasses is pure comedy.

nice portrait in mirror, lower portion of the head is great.

[Affected]

I guess I might as well post a couple of drawings.




Tomorrow, I guess I'll start cracking on more archi drawing.

[Affected]

Well, haven't updated much. Mainly because it's a pain to take photos and crop them and whatnot. Here's some stuff though:










Not drawing enough archi stuff still, I find it utterly boring somehow. Hard to motivate myself. On the other hand, I kind of like where I'm going with life drawing. (last two pics)

[Affected]

A few from today.
Odd thing about the brush pen, I find it extremely hard to draw with when the ink is flowing really plentifully. Much prefer it a bit dry, but it's hard to keep that way...

[Affected]

Moved on to gouaches for a bit. Mainly concentrating on value to the detriment of... well, everything. Work from a few different sessions over the last week or so here, mostly 15-20 mins, last two 30-40 a piece.

[Affected]

Time here drawing to a close.

[Loki]

all great stuff Affected! Really nice! I hope you enjoyed your stay in Vienna! What brought you there? Painting?
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