Male Nude September 2020

 

Pictures to support Jeanie's "People Drawing" Course Lesson 8

The picture above is to copy and print for Jeanie's People drawing lesson 8.

The picture as finished by Jeanie.  You copy and print the first picture then try adding the white highlights with chalk or white pastel.

These two pictures are linked with Jeanie's "People Drawing" course. It is an exercise in lesson 8 which is about light and shadows and how they make a body look solid and three dimentional.  The course is on Youtube and can be found on the channel "Colourful World of Jeanie" (Watch the spelling - "Colourful" with a "u" in the English way and "Jeanie" with only one "n".)

A link to the course is below

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAXrse1u-h4X28pvUzf88rQ/featured

Muscle Diagram for Jeanie's "Drawing People Course" and link to course

 

This is the muscle diagram from Jeanie Mellersh's "Drawing People " course on Youtube.  Print it down and keep it for reference.

To see the videos in the course go to YouTube Colourful world of Jeanie

Click on the video below to see the lesson where the diagram is used.

Make a Boxi figure to help you draw!

Boxi is a lay figure that will help you draw people.  It is part of the Jeanie Mellersh "Drawing People" course that you can find here.  Boxi helps to simplify the human body by representing it as a series of boxes and cones.  This makes visualising the effects of perspective much easier.  Boxy can be placed in any pose that the human body is capable of (and quite a few that it isn't!) and then viewed from any angle.

Boxi is made from 3 boxes (head, chest, and hips), 1 cylinder (neck), and 4 cones (legs), and 4 more cones (arms), hands and feet, and a length of thick string or thin rope cut into pieces to hold the arms, and legs together and form the spine.  The pattern for the paper or card needed for the boxes and cones is below.

Print down the two pages below on A4 or equivalent paper, cut them, glue them, and make Boxi.  To see how to use Boxi you will need to watch the Youtube Video that is shown at the end of this post..

Making Boxi - instructions

To make Boxi you will need thick string or thin rope, scissors, and glue.  Also, you need printed versions of the patterns below on thin card or thickish paper.  The pattern can be copied and printed from here. Just use this as a pattern for the shapes, and make Boxi any colour you choose. Feet and hands are folded in half.

Page 1 of the Boxi pattern - arms (2 cones each), legs (2 cones each), hands, and feet.

Page 2 of the Boxi pattern, chest box, hip box, head box, and neck cylinder.

Boxi in poses

Send me a picture of your Boxi when you have made him.

The Youtube video that features Boxi

Jeanie Mellersh

Nude a day 60: Two three-minute poses

News!  Jeanie is currently running a "How to Draw" people class on Youtube.  First lesson is here and you can follow the series from her channel "Colourfulworld of Jeanie" (Non-English people note the "u" in "Colourful"!!)

I like these two poses showing the model's graceful figure.

Nude a day - Last one today|

After 60 nude,s one every day in January and February I am ending this series today Feb 29th 2020.  There will be occasional posts on this blog over the next months - some nudes, some other things.  Thanks to everyone who looked at this series. Let me know if you have enjoyed them.

Two videos about drawing

Video 1: Watch this - and start drawing

 

To mark the end of the series Jeanie has produced another video encouraging everyone to draw.  It includes her drawing an under 2-minute sketch of her husband Nick. See below.

 

The 2-minute picture that Jeanie draws in this video

 Video 2: How to draw nudes

This video shows how Jeanie went about this drawing. She drew two very quick pictures, one of which is shown above. They demonstrate gesture drawing.

One of the 2 quick pictures Jeanie draws in this video

I hope you have liked the pictures so far. If you liked any of them enough, you can buy the original: £100 unframed plus P & P. Email me for more information at nandjmellersh@yahoo.co.uk.

Anyway, please let me know what you think by commenting either on the blog or by email to me at the address above. As we did last year we will raffle away two prints among those who comment. So start commenting for a chance for a prize.!)

Jeanie Mellersh

My Links: Art - www.jeanie.mellersh.org.  Videos about my life"Colourful World of Jeanie"

Nude a day 59: Crouching in evening sunlight

Pastel on sand coloured pastel paper.

This was a short pose but a complex one with the sun lighting her up from behind.  I like it.

Nude a day - ending in tomorrow 

After 60 nudes Jeanie will end this series on Feb 29th 2020.  There will be occasional posts on this blog - some nudes, some other things. 

Two videos about drawing

 

The quick gesture drawing I do during the video

Video 1: Watch this - and start drawing

To mark the end of the series Jeanie has produced another video encouraging everyone to draw.  It includes her drawing an under 2-minute sketch of her husband Nick. See above.

One of the two quick pictures I draw during the video

  

Video 2: How to draw nudes

This video shows how Jeanie went about this drawing. She drew two very quick pictures, one of which is shown above. They demonstrate gesture drawing.

I hope you have liked the pictures so far. If you liked any of them enough, you can buy the original: £100 unframed plus P & P. Email me for more information at nandjmellersh@yahoo.co.uk.

Anyway, please let me know what you think by commenting either on the blog or by email to me at the address above. As we did last year we will raffle away two prints among those who comment. So start commenting for a chance for a prize!)

Jeanie Mellersh

My Links: Art - www.jeanie.mellersh.org.  Videos about my life"Colourful World of Jeanie"

Nude a day 58: Extreme perspective

I find it exciting to see the extreme difference in size of the legs, so close up, and the head, so small and distant.

Nude a day - ending in two days! 

After 60 nudes Jeanie will end this series on Feb 29th 2020.  There will be occasional posts on this blog - some nudes, some other things. 

Two videos about drawing

Video 1: Watch this - and start drawing

To mark the end of the series Jeanie has produced another video encouraging everyone to draw.  It includes her drawing a 2-minute sketch of her husband Nick. See below.

The 2-minute picture drawn in the video

 Video 2: How to draw nudes

This video shows how Jeanie goes about drawing nudes. She draws two very quick pictures, one of which is shown below.

 

One of 2 pictures dawn in this video

 

I hope you have liked the pictures so far. If you liked any of them enough, you can buy the original: £100 unframed plus P & P. Email me for more information at nandjmellersh@yahoo.co.uk.

Anyway, please let me know what you think by commenting either on the blog or by email to me at the address above. As we did last year we will raffle away two prints among those who comment. So start commenting for a chance for a prize.!)

Jeanie Mellersh

My Links: Art - www.jeanie.mellersh.org.  Videos about my life"Colourful World of Jeanie"