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Hopefully I won’t get too embarrassed when my blocky drawings look very amateurish compared to other great life-like drawing artists. I will continue exploring cubism during figure drawing sessions in the next few months. I have to play with exaggerated shapes, different angles and overlapping images in order to get closer to that style. Although the first sketches are not traditional cubism style I feel some of them are beginning to enter that look. However, like in cubism, things should not match up (change beginning and ending points when going from one section to another) and should be distorted. I hope you enjoyed this set of figure drawing sketches. Using contour lines, draw a guitar on the drawing surface. When doing sketches my goal is to capture the subject in a simple form but at the same time I try to learn about lighting, shading, perspective, depth, and movement. My idea of a good sketch when a stylized representation of the model is simple enough to represent the shape, action and possibly some emotion. An early 20th-century art movement created by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, Cubism introduced the notion of fragmentation in art.Instead, artists within this stylistic movement wanted to focus on the two-dimensionality of the canvas and strip objects down to their basic forms, creating an incredible, unique style made up of abstract, geometric, fragmented planes. Sometimes the quick sketches end up looking better than the more detailed drawings, or at least I prefer them. These next examples are explorations using simple lines, shading and block form. If the pose will be long I try to get two sketches done, the first one is a study of the shape and the second one is a more detailed figure drawing. For a more traditional cubism style I would have to incorporate the same image from different angles and exaggerate the form. I don’t consider these drawings cubism yet, but its just the start of my exploration.įor this set of quick sketches I’m doing simple lines but I’m also trying to add a bit of shading. More recently I noticed I’ve been getting better at drawings in block-form. During the warm up sessions (1-2 minute poses) is when I explore the most, combining cubism, action sketches, wide-stroke drawings, illustration, etc. Cubism is commonly associated with European artists like Matisse and Picasso, but its roots are in African sculpture, and both artists were heavily influenced by African themes, so this painting. Every time I attend figure drawing session I try to make the most of it by continuing to explore different styles of drawing and do as many sketches as possible. If you’re up for a bit more of a challenge, this van Gogh paint by numbers combines vivid colors with a two-dimensional appearance, both features associated with the Cubist movement.