04-15-2012, 12:25 AM
Hey guys,
a friend of mine told me yesterday, that she would put EVERY LINE SHE DRAWS in her sketchbook, to show her progress. I am not sure if I agree with her, since then the sketchbook could become boring due to an imbalance of quantity to quality, I have to admire the courage. So I decided to show some of my scribbles as well, since I am not only working with digital media.
I am trying a new approach with is more scribbly and loose, which I find really comfortable. I basicly just scribble until I like what I see, then I refine. It is not an very efficient way of working, since my hand is moving pretty fast and I am using up a lot of pencil, but it is fun and I like the result.
On the first page I did the left one before I did the anatomy study above and the right on after the study without ref. The rest are quick comps and scribbles :>
A question to you guys, since I am struggling with this: I am not sure if I need to do Loomis or Bridgeman or any of those anatomy guys, since I think I can learn anatomy by doing studies (like the one above). But would you say I miss out on something if I never study those books? I have to admit, I have been kind of avoiding the books, because of the mentioned reason, but every now and then I think that's just lazyness. What's is your opinion on that? Life-studies or anatomy books? One thing that bugs me about those books is the stylization and interpretation that the authors did of the human figure, which I then would incorporate in my work. If I only did life-studies I would do all the simplification and interpretation (and therefore stylization) myself, which is a good thing right?
Love,
Flo
a friend of mine told me yesterday, that she would put EVERY LINE SHE DRAWS in her sketchbook, to show her progress. I am not sure if I agree with her, since then the sketchbook could become boring due to an imbalance of quantity to quality, I have to admire the courage. So I decided to show some of my scribbles as well, since I am not only working with digital media.
I am trying a new approach with is more scribbly and loose, which I find really comfortable. I basicly just scribble until I like what I see, then I refine. It is not an very efficient way of working, since my hand is moving pretty fast and I am using up a lot of pencil, but it is fun and I like the result.
On the first page I did the left one before I did the anatomy study above and the right on after the study without ref. The rest are quick comps and scribbles :>
A question to you guys, since I am struggling with this: I am not sure if I need to do Loomis or Bridgeman or any of those anatomy guys, since I think I can learn anatomy by doing studies (like the one above). But would you say I miss out on something if I never study those books? I have to admit, I have been kind of avoiding the books, because of the mentioned reason, but every now and then I think that's just lazyness. What's is your opinion on that? Life-studies or anatomy books? One thing that bugs me about those books is the stylization and interpretation that the authors did of the human figure, which I then would incorporate in my work. If I only did life-studies I would do all the simplification and interpretation (and therefore stylization) myself, which is a good thing right?
Love,
Flo