Playing with value and shape for all of about 20min. I suck at edges and value is weak so..


Here is the last of the anatomy stuff. With this week done I finished all of the muscles of the body. Surface ones at least. I now have faces, hands and feet left and thats it. But that will still take a large amount of time. And I want to change my methods because I am no longer sure the method I just used was effective, but experimentation is for learning just as much as it is for art styles etc.










Update on that enviro. Did some traditional sketches with architecture that I have misplaced but will probably add next week.

Alright, I have started doing these anatomy revision things as warm ups. Just to solidify the knowledge in my head as a 3D form and make sure that I don't miss anything. This isnt finished because I want to do a 3/4 front and rear but I will do that over the week this week.

Just a quick reflection on the anatomy studies, while they were really useful and I can see myself applying them all the time in life drawing and in my own studies/personal pieces. I don't think that such an in depth study has given me a good ROI considering the time it took. As I go through with these warm ups, I realise that not everything is cemented in my memory (I can still name all the muscles and say where they originate and terminate but I can't translate it as well as I should into say a rear 3/4 view of the forearm) I guess what I am saying is to keep in mind that your theoretical knowledge can quickly out pace your practical knowledge if you enjoy learning for learnings sake too much.
Regardless of what you learn, learning is good, but maybe the way I did it was not as efficient as it could have been.


On to portrait studies!! This was fun. After doing anatomy for so long moving on to something like this was great. Each of these varied between 2hrs to a max of maybe 3.








I took my laptop and tablet to life drawing for the long pose (2.3hrs) but the colours are all messed up because my screen is WAYYYYYY off on my laptop. This is after heavily editing levels and colour balance on my desktop and I still couldnt get it to the way my laptop looks. Sigh. Time to calibrate that again..


Update on enviro


Bloodsports 4: toy packaging. Join us!

Anyway on to new stuff:

Anatomy revision - Summarising most of the info I know about the neck



Portrait studies, I am starting to apply as many as I can, so after I do a study, the same day, or next day, I'll do another portrait, trying to refer to the original as little as possible, and just try different things. Don't know whether it is working but we'll see.

Study


Application


Study


And a failed application (most terrifying shit I have ever created, but I wanted to upload failures as well as successes)


Study


Beginning of an application that I will finish this week


10minute study from life at life drawing


Life drawing vomit. I was so tired that night I couldnt see straight, but I still went (for some stupid reason)



Bloodsports 4: Gorilla Guardians
I attempted to do a comic book style this time, I think I missed the beat a little but I'm not too unhappy with the result.




Crimson Crusaders - Leading Lady
My three fave thumbs


The one I am going with

I struggled a lot to find the variations in colour I liked. If I had the time I would have played some more with it at the end.


Here are the studies:



And I used my girlfriend as the model for this, which came in amazingly handy, since I could pose her in the exact perspective of my finished piece and use the study as the actual head :D Probably wouldn't have gotten it done in time if I had to do a new head. Though I didn't quite do her justice =/


Weapon variations:




Clothing Variations, I was planning on doing this for every item, but it was taking a ridiculous amount of time.


Dead pan wasnt very charming. So I did this.. didn't turn out so good


Finals:




And a gif for shits and giggles
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