I just finished a three-day figure painting workshop with Peggi Kroll Roberts. Peggi is an excellent teacher with a vast knowledge of figure painting. It's kind of like boot camp for figure painting. She has many different exercises to get you started.
My favorite exercise was painting the figure in 25 strokes. This may seem very difficult, and it was, but you can paint the whole background in one stroke if you load up your paintbrush with lots of paint and don't lift the paintbrush until the entire background is covered. That was just one of the many exercises.
I can still hear her saying "there are two kinds of shadows that occur when light shines on an object, form shadows and cast shadows. Where the light side of the object meets the form shadow is the core shadow. The core shadow is where the object turns away from the light."
Take a look at Peggi's website to see her work. I highly recommend her figure painting workshop.
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