01-22-2019, 07:02 AM
Had to work more hours last week than initally planned so spent the weekend catching up on what I wanted to do during the week that I didn't get a chance to. All these extra hours are only lasting until end of Feb so should hopefully be back to my regular routine beginning of March.
Sketchbook
Did another page of figures from imagination before the new Watts classes started. Tried incorporating some props into a few of them to help get across the pose I was going for.
Portrait Class
Still reading through Nathan Fowkes portrait book and got inspired to tackle a portrait like he does so spent a shorter amount of time on my lay-in and went straight into shading but as you can see I got way ahead of myself and f***** it up big time. Her glasses really messed with me since they were casting a shadow (didn't help that her head was mainly in shadow). Had trouble making them look correct in perspective, they were rounded and tilted in the corners and that really messed with me, just couldn't draw them.
Gave up on that first drawing since I didn;t see how I could fix it and started on another. This week I want to go back to how I usually lay-in a head but try and work quicker and break down the features around my drawing like I started the week before, focus on the eyes since that was what I was learning last week in Lucas's class and try what Fedodika said at home where I can churn out multiple drawings from ref.
Life Class
Usual 3 and 10 min poses (sitting down poses are the 10 min) I found myself getting too caught up in his anatomy and not simplifying the gesture.
Usual 45 min pose, had difficulties with his right leg that is foreshortened. I measured it but it looked way too long initially so messed around with shortening more than what it appeared to be.
Lucas's Class
As I said Watts classes started last week and the first week was focused on the eyes, I was planning on getting another 1 or 3 rendered eyes in but didn't have enough time.
Erik's Class
I usually lay in my poses like Brian but decided to try Erik's approach this week as it is more free flowing and not as constructive as Brian's approach. Started with the big envelope shape of the pose and drawing the head up from the pit of the neck which I really struggled with since it was new to me and then rather than mapping the shadow shapes and then filling in I went for a painterly approach and directly layed in the shadows which again was a first. Made alot of mistakes (as you can see) mainly the head is bugging me since it's comptely wrong but it was a good learning experience.
Gesuture Drawing
I've been warming up the past week with gesture drawing since I really want to improve them. Been working slower and really focusing on simplifiying using the reilly rythms and just ingraining how poses flow.
Again prob won't have time to post until the weekend at the earliest.
Sketchbook
Did another page of figures from imagination before the new Watts classes started. Tried incorporating some props into a few of them to help get across the pose I was going for.
Portrait Class
Still reading through Nathan Fowkes portrait book and got inspired to tackle a portrait like he does so spent a shorter amount of time on my lay-in and went straight into shading but as you can see I got way ahead of myself and f***** it up big time. Her glasses really messed with me since they were casting a shadow (didn't help that her head was mainly in shadow). Had trouble making them look correct in perspective, they were rounded and tilted in the corners and that really messed with me, just couldn't draw them.
Gave up on that first drawing since I didn;t see how I could fix it and started on another. This week I want to go back to how I usually lay-in a head but try and work quicker and break down the features around my drawing like I started the week before, focus on the eyes since that was what I was learning last week in Lucas's class and try what Fedodika said at home where I can churn out multiple drawings from ref.
Life Class
Usual 3 and 10 min poses (sitting down poses are the 10 min) I found myself getting too caught up in his anatomy and not simplifying the gesture.
Usual 45 min pose, had difficulties with his right leg that is foreshortened. I measured it but it looked way too long initially so messed around with shortening more than what it appeared to be.
Lucas's Class
As I said Watts classes started last week and the first week was focused on the eyes, I was planning on getting another 1 or 3 rendered eyes in but didn't have enough time.
Erik's Class
I usually lay in my poses like Brian but decided to try Erik's approach this week as it is more free flowing and not as constructive as Brian's approach. Started with the big envelope shape of the pose and drawing the head up from the pit of the neck which I really struggled with since it was new to me and then rather than mapping the shadow shapes and then filling in I went for a painterly approach and directly layed in the shadows which again was a first. Made alot of mistakes (as you can see) mainly the head is bugging me since it's comptely wrong but it was a good learning experience.
Gesuture Drawing
I've been warming up the past week with gesture drawing since I really want to improve them. Been working slower and really focusing on simplifiying using the reilly rythms and just ingraining how poses flow.
Again prob won't have time to post until the weekend at the earliest.