FIGURATIVE ARTWORK

Gabrielle Dahms

  • Gallery
  • Artist Statement
  • About
  • Discover Drawing Fundamentals
  • Contact
  • Join Email List
  • Gallery
  • Artist Statement
  • About
  • Discover Drawing Fundamentals
  • Contact
  • Join Email List
Figure drawings are done in charcoal, pencil, watercolor, chalk pastels,  pen and ink, and on various paper types.

Drawings - Males

Various poses by male models. Some are quick sketches. Others are developed drawings. Paper size and choices as well as drawing media may be found under each individual drawing's description. Most drawings offer print-on-demand options specified in the purchase options for the drawings. When purchasing an original, drawings come with a protective sheet and in an art tube. I recommend that you mat and frame the piece you acquire once you receive it as charcoal is a medium that needs protection to preserve its integrity and beauty.

Drawings - Females

Various poses by female models. Some are quick sketches. Others are developed drawings. Paper size and choices as well as drawing media may be found under each individual drawing's description. Most drawings offer print-on-demand options specified in the purchase options for the drawings. When purchasing an original, drawings come with a protective sheet and in an art tube. I recommend that you mat and frame the piece you acquire once you receive it as charcoal is a medium that needs protection to preserve its integrity and beauty.

Portraits

Human facial structure and faces fascinate. Heads and faces, of course, suggest the bodies they crown at least to some degree. They never are independent entities for this reason and often are more powerful in their expression when even a small part of the connected body is part of the drawing. The portraits in this gallery comprise both genders. Often adornments such as earrings, nose rings, tatoos, beards, hair or lack thereof, hair clips, scarfs and so on enhance the portrait and even make it more unique. These portraits usually are longer and long poses. When drawing a portrait, my subject's attitudes and spirit are among the things I am after: I want to capture who the models are as people. My aim therefore has little to do with creating photographic likenesses of the models. Paper size and choices as well as drawing media may be found under each individual drawing's description. Most drawings offer print-on-demand options specified in the purchase options for the drawings. When purchasing an original, drawings come with a protective sheet and in an art tube. I recommend that you mat and frame the piece you acquire once you receive it as charcoal is a medium that needs protection to preserve its integrity and beauty.

Quick Gestural Drawings

All drawings unfinished or finished, long or short poses alike, depend on initial quick and confident gestural drawing beginnings. These aim to capture the gestural quality of the pose, the expression and expressiveness of the model, and the structural determining factors of form, weight, and anatomy. All great drawings derive from such informal and simple observation expressed in lines on paper. Further, maintaining the gestural approach throughout the entire drawing process reveals the living being (the model). That sounds easy enough, yet is difficult to maintain and execute. After all every form, every muscle, every structure etc. has its own gesture! The gesture is a love affair.

[#]Join Email List
Powered by artspan.com - Artist Websites