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An Acrylic Painting of a Nude Male Figure.<\/h1>\n

I had the best of intentions of sitting down Saturday and painting for an hour, but home renovations beat me to the point that painting wasn’t an option. I did get a chance to do a bit of preparation work though.<\/p>\n

For my subject I selected a male nude figure from Deviant art (figmodel10’s stock image account) that I had saved on my computer last December.<\/p>\n

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Male nude stock 8 by figmodel10<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For reference I printed out a greyscale copy of the original stock image with my laser printer. Then I decided to try something different. Instead of sketching directly onto the canvas board I drew a 1\/2″ grid over the printout.<\/p>\n

The idea behind this was to use the grid to copy the original to the larger canvas, keeping the proportions of the figure.<\/p>\n

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Transfer grid on original<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My first big problem was figuring out what size of grid to evenly divide up my canvas as I had done with my printout. I only had an Imperial measuring tape and was ending up with grid sizes of 41\/64th” and other foolishness. I finally ended up just eyeballing it after much trial and error – settling on a 6\/8″ grid on my canvas. I marked the grid out using a 4h pencil and called it a night.<\/p>\n

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grid on canvas panel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Once I had my grid penciled onto my canvas I grabbed some charcoal. I started to draw a rough outline, copying each grid on my original to my canvas panel. I stopped and took the snapshot below when I was about half finished the sketch.<\/p>\n

It was right about this time that I realized that I have never painted a figure before. This could get ugly.<\/p>\n

Next week I’m going to try and paint an undercoat. We’ll see how it works out.<\/p>\n

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Charcoal sketch on canvas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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