05-12-2019, 03:12 AM
Had to work extra hours the past week so haven't really had the time to post.
Been working on my figure drawing skills lately, mainly using the watts figure phases as a guide for what to practice. My practice schedule has been:
. anatomy
. quick sketch
. 20 min lay-ins (setting myself a 1 hour limit on these)
. master studies (studying Brian Knox's work so far to help me with my simplification)
Life class
usual 3/10 min gesutures and a 40 min pose.
Quicksketch
These are 5 min poses from photo ref
These are mostly 5 min poses but copying Brian's quicksketch drawings with a couple of 3 min poses from Erik's drawings. Like doing studies of his figure drawings I thought this would also help me with my design skills.
Master Study
Spent far too long on this and had a really tough time with the proportions.
20 min lay-ins
Trying to work on increasing my overall drawing speed/decision making as I'm far too slow. I noticed that I seem to get the head in the right place but not the bodies. I overlayed the ref onto my drawings to see where I'm going wrong and it's mostly a width proportion error that I consistently have. I think specifically where I'm going wrong is judging incorrectly the shoudler width and since I'm getting that wrong the rest of my plumb lines get thrown off having a snowball effect.
Erik's Class
Thought I did a better job on this one compared to last week, fle tlike I captured the gesture better and simplfied better aswell. I noticed afterwards that some of my mapping was wrong or could be changed e.g. I shouldn't have included the shading on her stomach, again like last week I feel like that is a halftone.
Week 1 feedback
I've got more work to post but haven't had time to take any pics yet. Prob gonna leave it till next week, might take a day or two off and re-evaluate things, been feeling dejected lately from just working constantly.
Been working on my figure drawing skills lately, mainly using the watts figure phases as a guide for what to practice. My practice schedule has been:
. anatomy
. quick sketch
. 20 min lay-ins (setting myself a 1 hour limit on these)
. master studies (studying Brian Knox's work so far to help me with my simplification)
Life class
usual 3/10 min gesutures and a 40 min pose.
Quicksketch
These are 5 min poses from photo ref
These are mostly 5 min poses but copying Brian's quicksketch drawings with a couple of 3 min poses from Erik's drawings. Like doing studies of his figure drawings I thought this would also help me with my design skills.
Master Study
Spent far too long on this and had a really tough time with the proportions.
20 min lay-ins
Trying to work on increasing my overall drawing speed/decision making as I'm far too slow. I noticed that I seem to get the head in the right place but not the bodies. I overlayed the ref onto my drawings to see where I'm going wrong and it's mostly a width proportion error that I consistently have. I think specifically where I'm going wrong is judging incorrectly the shoudler width and since I'm getting that wrong the rest of my plumb lines get thrown off having a snowball effect.
Erik's Class
Thought I did a better job on this one compared to last week, fle tlike I captured the gesture better and simplfied better aswell. I noticed afterwards that some of my mapping was wrong or could be changed e.g. I shouldn't have included the shading on her stomach, again like last week I feel like that is a halftone.
Week 1 feedback
I've got more work to post but haven't had time to take any pics yet. Prob gonna leave it till next week, might take a day or two off and re-evaluate things, been feeling dejected lately from just working constantly.