Various pastels mixing techniques

Nathan Fowkes and the Reilly Method

Topic of the day Frank Reilly {Sorry most of the links are now dead}

When I first saw life portraits demos by Nathan Fowkes I was really surprised by the direction of his construction lines and eventually realised those were distinctive of the Reilly drawing method, a method focusing on the relationship between elements

Now regarding Nathan Fowkes, click the following links to see several demos
http://nathanfowkes.blogspot.co.uk/2010/01/charcoal-demo.html
http://nathanfowkes.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/new-charcoal-step-by-step.html

Nathan's LAAFA online course

and an interesting PDF
http://www.medicalart.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Drawing-anatomy-for-surgeons.pdf
and an other one
http://mos.futurenet.com/pdf/computerarts/CAP113_tut_bodies.pdf

Figure painting with watercolours

The importance of having a cool and warm variation for each hue and a great methodology to approach Figure painting with watercolours.

Blogger is not allowing me to embed the last one so here is the link :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSfyEjUT75A