Orlando Sanchez is a figurative artist from Austin, Texas who makes a living creating his art and selling them online and in galleries and also runs life art classes in his studio..
This piece of artwork is called 'Kate taking it off'- it is 15 x 22 and a half inches, it's painted with acrylic on cancon paper and sealed with varnish... He is clearly very talented and I love how he's made a simple image of a half naked figure interesting by changing the colour of the skin, adding all the dynamic colours and shapes around it and this has made it very modern... I don't really like what he has changed about it- as in the colour and the shapes, although it is very dynamic and unusual I think it would have been better if he'd used skin tones and maybe made it a bit more elegant perhaps...
I really like the image below, it's very scenic and peaceful and he's really captured the essence of beauty in it as well, the skin tones are perfect and you can see the moonlight reflecting off parts of the body.. there's a very magical atmosphere in this piece and clearly he's a very talented artist. Everything seems soft and delicate which really creates the illusion of floating on the water which I think is incredible and the dashes of red splashed about breaks up the blues and bring some heat into the image which I think makes it seem more intimate than if he'd have kept everything in cold blues like the image above. It is called 'Sadie's underwater dream' it is 24 inches by 40 inches created using nupastel and oils on Neenah crest white paper sealed with polyurethane.
Xia Taptara
Xia Taptara is a former concept/ 3d character artist who creates beautiful and detailed art on ipads, computers using many various drawing/painting software to create his art. He has his own website where he teaches people how to skilfully create art using digital software over the internet by going through a step by step guide through all the tools and techniques in great detail... Here is one of my favourite of his pieces...
He created this on an app called "Ipad sketch club"... The tones of the skin are perfectly soft and the brushwork is messy but it works. Her facial expression is clear and natural which must be difficult to portray on an ipad? He's captured the soft floaty texture of the scarf and the lighting is perfect... Apart from the background being abit dull I can't fault this image at all. I think it's lovely.. He hasn't really done anymore firgure paintings that I like as he does mainly portraits; this image has no name and hasn't stated any size.
Ewa Kienko Gawlik is from Poland and is a self representing artist who creates beautiful pieces of art focused on the female figure but has also done males, she uses all sorts of materials such as pencil, acrylic, pastels, graphite, watercolour and more and she sells them on a website especially for self representing artists... Here are a few examples of her work:
I think this piece above is absolutely perfect- a beautiful abstract piece of art that is full of light, a wide range of colour and tone. She accents the curves of the body with light created with intense colour and shocking white and the light is so perfect it looks as though someone is shining a torch on the painting. I love the fact that you can see the texture so clearly in the background; it's rough and messy and is smoothed on the parts of the body that are supposed to be closer towards the viewer which is effective because they look more 3d; she has created perfect perspective which is hard to do. Created in 2012 she has used acrylic paint and varnish on canvas, the image is only 20 cm by 20 cm and has no name.
I love this drawing.. it's beautiful. I love the fact that the lighting and shading is so faint and soft and there are no harsh tones or lines, it makes the image look natural and innocent. I like drawings that are perfect like an exact copy (maybe a bit boring to most but I think they're amazing) and that's why I like this one so much; it's simple and exact. Although, It would look lovely with a splash of colour maybe... that's the only thing I would change. It was drawn with pencil, graphite on white paper and size: 30 by 40cm.
She also draws a lot of ballerina's in various poses which I think are quite charming... They seem to be drawn quite quickly or she's at least spent less time on them than she has on the other drawings and paintings she's done but they seem to have been frozen in time- maybe she's drawn them during a performance? They have an adorable, graceful quality and I think they're lovely.
My favourite is the second image though, It's more detailed than the other one- she has clearly put a lot of consideration into the light, I like the way it has completely covered her face as she looks directly into it- it makes her look angelic. She has applied a squiggly quality to the skirt and has used both white and dark lines on it, she has shaded is beautifully (or smudged it) and I can tell just by looking at it just how that skirt will feel. I like the way her limbs are lit brightly where the light hits them is creates a strict grace amongst them as though she has been captured in time in this image and I think that is an excellent talent to have especially since these drawings seem to be drawn more quickly. 
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