06-02-2021, 05:03 AM
Been a few weeks since I posted so thought I'd give an update.
Not awhole lot to show, prety much been occupied with what I was doing in my last post which was painting, a long graphite drawing and making a costume for some illustration reference.
Anyway here is what I have so far.
Figure Invention
Here is my homework for the last 2 weeks of my figure invention calss with Erik
Week 2
Building upon the first week, taking our gestural drawings and starting to add structure to it to properly ground the figures.
Week 3
Same here but this time adding anatomy on top of the structure. Still having some proportional issues, think it boils down to mostly trying to draw views of figures that I don't have much practice with. Started off with some basic forms on the left which I had originally planned on adding anatomy to but ran out of time unfortunately.
Graphite Drawing
Progress on my graphite drawing. Just taking it slow and spending my time trying to properly render the forms and trying to design my shapes in an attractive manner.
Close up
Spent 16 hrs so far on the drawing. Proberly would of been further along but I've done a fair amount of erasing and reshading as I was having difficulties with my values as they are so close together. I'm going to try and not go over 50 hrs if I can help it as I feel that any longer would be detrimental.
Cast Painting
Spent the day doing a direct painting of my cast so not including lunch and breaks I spent around 6-7 hrs on the painting. I was hoping to spend abit longer on it, possibly do some finishing touches on the hair the following day but after 6-7 hrs (even before actually) my paint started to get rather tacky (mainly in the shadows) as I was using my paints straight from the tube without using any medium or turps (apart from the inital stain).
I was following the process in Harold Speed's book so I started with my darkest darks and backgrounds, laid in the general tone of my halftones and lights and once the big forms where in I started to model in the highlights and any smaller halftones etc.
Going to atempt this same painting again but this time I'll try some medium to see if I can slow the drying time, and have ago at working in the tiling method instead.
Progress Shots
Finish
Apart from that I've been working on my sewing for my costume for my illustration ref. Got the cloak made and have the tunic pieces cut out, just need to make some alterations to it and sew it so I'm hopnig to have that done this week so that I can start shooting some ref next week and make a start on the drawing.
Not awhole lot to show, prety much been occupied with what I was doing in my last post which was painting, a long graphite drawing and making a costume for some illustration reference.
Anyway here is what I have so far.
Figure Invention
Here is my homework for the last 2 weeks of my figure invention calss with Erik
Week 2
Building upon the first week, taking our gestural drawings and starting to add structure to it to properly ground the figures.
Week 3
Same here but this time adding anatomy on top of the structure. Still having some proportional issues, think it boils down to mostly trying to draw views of figures that I don't have much practice with. Started off with some basic forms on the left which I had originally planned on adding anatomy to but ran out of time unfortunately.
Graphite Drawing
Progress on my graphite drawing. Just taking it slow and spending my time trying to properly render the forms and trying to design my shapes in an attractive manner.
Close up
Spent 16 hrs so far on the drawing. Proberly would of been further along but I've done a fair amount of erasing and reshading as I was having difficulties with my values as they are so close together. I'm going to try and not go over 50 hrs if I can help it as I feel that any longer would be detrimental.
Cast Painting
Spent the day doing a direct painting of my cast so not including lunch and breaks I spent around 6-7 hrs on the painting. I was hoping to spend abit longer on it, possibly do some finishing touches on the hair the following day but after 6-7 hrs (even before actually) my paint started to get rather tacky (mainly in the shadows) as I was using my paints straight from the tube without using any medium or turps (apart from the inital stain).
I was following the process in Harold Speed's book so I started with my darkest darks and backgrounds, laid in the general tone of my halftones and lights and once the big forms where in I started to model in the highlights and any smaller halftones etc.
Going to atempt this same painting again but this time I'll try some medium to see if I can slow the drying time, and have ago at working in the tiling method instead.
Progress Shots
Finish
Apart from that I've been working on my sewing for my costume for my illustration ref. Got the cloak made and have the tunic pieces cut out, just need to make some alterations to it and sew it so I'm hopnig to have that done this week so that I can start shooting some ref next week and make a start on the drawing.