Francisco Arredondos Art Blog

Fri Figs

2012-01-27T19:39:00.001-05:00

last weeks figure drawing sesh

no figures from last week.

2012-01-17T15:31:00.003-05:00

kinda bummed. didn't get to go to the figure sesh last week because I wrecked my car. hopefully will get to attend this up coming one.

Fri Figs

2012-01-11T20:01:00.001-05:00

This is from last fridays figure drawing sesh, way glad to be back at it. these are too fun.

Wednesday Figs

2012-01-11T19:57:00.001-05:00

back from the new year ready to make magic happen!! this is from a figure drawing sesh held on a wednesday at a different studio. the setup was strange. more quickies than long poses. :/

Might go to another one of these, dunno, they're biweekly so harder to plan.

New Years Day!!

2012-01-02T14:42:00.000-05:00

happy new years!!! this year for me is gonna be all about success. and to bring in the new year, here's a leyendecker baby. still the best way to bring in the new year!

Friday Figs

2011-12-24T00:16:00.001-05:00

Figure drawings from earlier today. I think this is the first time I've upped the images same day that I drew them. Really fun sesh and a really good model for her first time! :D

friday figures

2011-12-20T20:40:00.000-05:00

last fridays figure sesh. fun stuff

friday figures

2011-12-06T15:39:00.001-05:00

last fridays figure sesh

2011-11-29T23:46:00.001-05:00

trying out some new things with the blog, still gotta change some stuff around but it looks better, cleaner, more professional.

Friday Figs

2011-11-20T00:25:00.001-05:00

yesterdays figure sesh, was way fun. I started working on digi stuff again so hopefully some of that coming up in the near future.

Fri Figs

2011-11-20T00:23:00.001-05:00

last weeks figure sesh

friday figs

2011-11-19T23:27:00.001-05:00

oh hey, I have a blog?? here's the figures from two weeks or so ago. need to remember to update more often...

FriFigs

2011-10-25T02:16:00.000-04:00

last fridays figure sesh... kinda janky but eh...

Fri Figs

2011-10-25T02:14:00.000-04:00

figure sesh from two fridays ago.

fri figs

2011-10-13T14:58:00.000-04:00

last fridays figure drawing sesh

Friday Figs

2011-10-13T14:54:00.000-04:00

figure drawing from two fridays ago

Fri Figs

2011-09-24T23:59:00.000-04:00

last weeks

Friday Figs

2011-09-24T23:53:00.000-04:00

2 weeks ago

friday figs

2011-09-24T21:14:00.000-04:00

figure sesh from some weeks ago

friday figs

2011-09-05T20:41:00.000-04:00

last fridays figure sesh

friday figs

2011-09-05T20:38:00.000-04:00

figure sesh from two weeks ago

studies

2011-08-23T03:26:00.000-04:00

some studies... some revisited, some new.

friday figs

2011-08-22T20:20:00.001-04:00

this last fridays figure sesh. also fun. :D

friday figs.

2011-08-22T20:09:00.000-04:00

figure sesh from two weeks ago. was fun :D

Friday Figs.

2011-08-07T16:12:00.000-04:00

this past fridays figure sesh... unfortunately it'll be my last one for a long while... :'(

Friday Figs

2011-08-03T22:12:00.000-04:00

last fridays figure drawing sesh. was a really fun sesh!

friday figures

2011-07-25T16:19:00.000-04:00

last fridays figure sesh. there wasn't one before then.

Friday Figures

2011-07-14T01:49:00.000-04:00

last fridays figure sesh. I can't execute anymore...

friday figs

2011-07-05T02:17:00.000-04:00

this past fridays figure sesh. eh...

Friday fig sesh

2011-07-05T02:07:00.000-04:00

figure sesh from two fridays ago... pretty terribad...

Friday Figs

2011-06-21T02:09:00.000-04:00

fridays figure sesh. getting there...

Friday Figures

2011-06-16T23:07:00.000-04:00

last fridays figure drawing sesh. slightly less terrible >.>

Friday Morning Figure Drawing

2011-06-16T23:01:00.000-04:00

drawings from two fridays ago. pretty terrible... >.>

Friday Morning Figure Drawing

2011-05-29T16:26:00.000-04:00

fridays figure drawing sesh. had two sesh's in one day, fun day :3

Friday Morning Figure Drawings

2011-05-23T04:53:00.000-04:00

last fridays figure drawing sesh... a few failed experiments. >.>

studies

2011-05-18T11:57:00.000-04:00

some old studies that I never posted. need to continue them though.

Friday Morning Figure Drawing

2011-05-16T17:02:00.000-04:00

last fridays figure drawing sesh... eh...

Friday Morning Figure Drawing

2011-05-10T01:45:00.001-04:00

last fridays figure drawing sesh.

Friday Morning Figure Drawing

2011-05-07T06:37:00.000-04:00

last fridays figure drawing sesh. yeah... eh...

Friday Morning Figure Drawing

2011-04-25T18:10:00.001-04:00

missed the week before but here's last fridays figure drawing sesh.

Friday Morning Figure Drawing

2011-04-14T13:58:00.000-04:00

last fridays figure drawing sesh. still slipping pretty hard.

Friday Morning Figure Drawing

2011-04-04T03:30:00.000-04:00

last fridays figure drawing sesh. I was slipping pretty hard that day. not really successful.

study

2011-03-30T00:56:00.001-04:00

random image I've been working on, trying to get my rendering tight.

Friday Morning Figure Drawing

2011-03-29T17:23:00.000-04:00

last fridays figure drawing sesh. model was bree.

studies

2011-03-28T18:07:00.000-04:00

part of some studies that I've been doing lately.

Friday Morning Figure Drawing

2011-03-25T22:09:00.001-04:00

last fridays figure drawing sesh. decent sesh. still slipping though. model was eelyah (dunno how to spell it)

sketches.

2011-03-14T02:00:00.001-04:00

digi sketch to try and up my rendering skills...

Friday Morning Figure Drawings

2011-03-11T23:33:00.000-05:00

Todays figure drawing sesh. Went better than I expected especially considering I had no sleep. Keeping japan in my thoughts

Friday Morning Figure Drawing

2011-03-09T03:49:00.001-05:00

last fridays figure drawing sesh. I've been slipping so hard lately... shit's annoying.

hmm...

2011-03-08T20:52:00.000-05:00

messing around trying to get renders down in PS. Still not nailing it.

Friday Morning Figure Drawing

2011-02-27T23:57:00.000-05:00

last fridays figure drawing sesh. model was katy. not as successful as I would have hoped. Oh well... next time.

Artistic Anatomy

2011-02-21T21:26:00.001-05:00

So yeah... this is quite possibly the most awesome thing ever. A video collection of Robert Beverly Hales lectures on anatomy taken before his retirement; done at the art students league of new york

http://www.free-ebook-download.net/video-training/32344-robert-beverly-hale-artistic-anatomy-11gb.html

Friday Morning Figure Drawings

2011-02-20T18:36:00.000-05:00

last fridays figure sesh. forgot the models name though

studies

2011-02-18T00:43:00.000-05:00

part of some on going studies to get my skill up.

Friday Morning Figure Drawing

2011-02-14T18:42:00.000-05:00

last fridays figure drawing sesh. model was chris.

Friday Morning Figure Drawings

2011-02-06T19:03:00.000-05:00

last fridays figure drawings; the model is bob. They weren't as successful as I hoped though. better luck next time. :P

Studies

2011-02-02T02:17:00.000-05:00

part of the head studies that I've been working on. based on ruan jias studies.

Friday Morning Figure Drawing

2011-02-02T00:51:00.000-05:00

last fridays figure drawing session.

Friday Morning Figure Drawing

2011-01-28T13:51:00.000-05:00

last weeks figure drawing session, it was pretty fun. don't remember the models name though.

Barnes & Noble sketches

2011-01-20T22:12:00.000-05:00

some sketches from my last trips to BnN.

Friday Morning Figure Drawing

2011-01-18T18:34:00.001-05:00

pt. 2

Friday Morning Figure Drawing

2011-01-18T18:32:00.001-05:00

last fridays figure session, it was pretty awesome but like always I was slippin hard.

Barnes & Noble sketches.

2010-12-29T15:07:00.001-05:00

These are the last set of personal sketches... Though, will probably hit up b&n again to night for some more sketching/studying.

Barnes & Noble sketches

2010-12-28T21:53:00.000-05:00

another set of B&N sketches. still trying to decide between this and scanning... will probably up the rest of these like this and maybe switch back later.

Barnes & Noble sketches.

2010-12-27T17:56:00.000-05:00

pictures taken from my new phone. If they're good enough hopefully I can use these from now on instead of having to get it scanned.

Friday Morning Figure Drawings

2010-12-26T23:21:00.000-05:00

last weeks friday figure sesh. I was slipping so hard that day. working on about two hours of sleep... oh well, thems the breaks.

Friday Morning Figure Drawings

2010-12-06T22:34:00.001-05:00

These are the drawings done at the figure session 3 weeks ago, never got around to uploading them so am doing it now. I was slippin so hard that day all of em turned out pretty terrible, oh well, till next time.

Last week the model no showed and the week before that was thanksgiving so nothin new on that end. Will probably have some B&N sketches up within the week though.

Friday Morning Figure Drawings

2010-11-14T01:37:00.000-05:00

Here are this fridays figure sessions. only did quick warm up sketches and then one pose for the rest of the session. Should have taken my oils for it but I forgot, oh well, next time.

Friday Morning Figure Drawings

2010-11-11T22:46:00.000-05:00

Here are the last two weeks worth of figure studies done at the spindle drawing sessions.

Barnes & Noble sketches

2010-10-24T03:02:00.000-04:00

Some barnes & noble sketches and another henry study, it was poorly planned out on my end tho... so not as good.

Friday Morning Figure Drawings

2010-10-22T00:47:00.000-04:00

This is last fridays figure drawing sesh. Katie was the model and she did an awesome job.

Barnes & Noble sketches

2010-10-13T23:24:00.000-04:00

some sketches done at barnes & noble hanging with my dood rob. Fun times.

Friday Morning Figure Drawing

2010-10-13T02:58:00.000-04:00

last fridays session. I was slipping so hard that day. Pretty terrible stuff. Nicole was the model.

Friday Morning Figure Drawing

2010-10-11T22:02:00.000-04:00

here's two fridays ago. katie was the model.

Friday Morning Figure Drawing

2010-10-11T21:36:00.000-04:00

Ah... my posting habits suck so much. need to get into some type of update schedule... Here's the figure stuff from three fridays ago. Forgot the models name... >.>

study

2010-09-25T16:55:00.000-04:00

here's a study I did from henry yans book. Done in pencil. Still trying to figure out how to get a good representation of sketches cause my scanner sucks... two images up, while I ponder...

B&N sketches

2010-09-24T03:30:00.000-04:00

Some sketches from Barnes & Noble, they scanned way too light tho...

Friday Morning Figure Drawing

2010-09-19T20:00:00.001-04:00

Twas portrait day at the figure drawing sesh on friday. Others were painting but unfortunately I forgot mine so had to go charcoal again. Oh well, here are the results. First is a study, last is final. Disregard the terrible hand.

Friday Morning Figure Drawing Pt. 3

2010-09-15T21:56:00.000-04:00

These are the last set of the samples. Will have new ups every friday from now on.

Friday Morning Figure Drawing Pt. 2

2010-09-15T01:25:00.000-04:00

Here's part 2 of the samplings. next part will be upped tomorrow or thurs.

Friday Morning Figure Drawing

2010-09-15T01:08:00.000-04:00

Gonna start uploading all the stuff from my friday morning figure drawing sessions. Here's some random samplings from the past few sessions that aren't completely terrible.

Henry Workshop pt. 2...

2010-09-13T23:20:00.001-04:00

Here are the rest of em. So inspiring watching him work.

Henry Yan Workshop

2010-09-13T23:12:00.001-04:00

here are the demo paintings that henry did at the painting workshop. the pictures suck but the paintings are awesome and way awesome-er in real life.

update...

2010-09-12T22:45:00.000-04:00

been way too long since I updated. Tired of noodling on this one.

update.

2010-05-13T02:11:00.001-04:00

something that's been sitting there on my desktop. doing nothing. just slacking. well, it's time for it to go to work!

Franco~

update…

2010-02-01T16:56:00.001-05:00

anutha gouache painting.

update…

2010-01-11T19:28:00.001-05:00

some gouache sketches

update…

2009-12-31T12:49:00.001-05:00

image I’ve been working on off and on for a bit.

test post.

2009-10-28T02:50:00.001-04:00

test post.

2009-10-27T15:03:00.001-04:00

just finished this one last night. need to update all things.

Update.

2009-06-03T22:51:00.001-04:00

Lets update this beast. Newest to oldest, right to left.

Franc~

Huge dump pt. 4

2009-04-11T03:47:00.000-04:00

Last dump of sketchbooks. Moleskine action included!

CHEH!

Franc ~

Huge dump pt. 3

2009-04-11T03:37:00.000-04:00

Third one, With Torso's! Probably 2 more to come.

Franc ~

Huge dump pt. 2

2009-04-11T03:26:00.000-04:00

number 2. with a few more to follow.

Franc ~

HUGE DUMP pt. 1

2009-04-11T03:07:00.001-04:00

huge dump of sketchbooks, here we go!

Franc ~