Dasia's Sketchbook- because university isn't tough enough

[dmdoodles]

Welcome to the daggers!! What a fantastic start to your sketchbook, definitely keep up the Peter Han form studies - its only gonna get better from here!
Hamptons good, Vilppus good, Loomis is good, they're all bloody good - I would actually recommend any and all anatomy books and videos - it seems tiresome, but no one man is right in the end. Anatomical construction is just a combination of ideas over the generations. You sort of have to feel your way around life drawing anyway, so taking bits and pieces from all of these masters lessons will help in the long run.
But hey its up to you xD (I ramble a bit as well haha)
Oh and quick gestures as a warm up before you study is also something I suggest :)

Anyways, love the work, welcome once again to CD and I hope you enjoy your stay!

Thanks! And I find it so funny that you'd say that because i'm keeping sort of a journal and in it I pasted instructional sketches from loomis, hampton, and hogarth and somehow had the realization that each one of them represented a certain skillset I could work toward with anatomy (despite the fact that they all talk about the same body and being). Hampton is deliciously analytical and can help with my skill in seeing the human body in forms. Hogarth is also pretty analytical but what stands out the most is his handling of light and shadow and how he uses value to create the forms rather than line. And Loomis's illustrative approach is (seemingly) geared towards having an understanding of form but learning to draw without the construction (with his laying down the features first. that part really helped me)
They're all apart of what i'm aiming towards in my art XD

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This weekend I went home and seeing as i'd be in my room all Friday I decided i'd burn through hampton's book (again.) I did it once last year in a month, but since Peter Han's form exercises I felt like i'd be able to understand everything alot better. I was originally just going to go through chapter to chapter, but at the last minute thursday night I decided to make a...very precise schedule XD

At first I thought it might be TOO precise but much to my own surprise I followed it pretty closely :O This is the first time i've made such a schedule, so think I might do one again! Here's all of the sketches from that day. It was a loonng and fruitful one :)


















Sorry for the low-res phone pics. My sketchpad's too big to fully fit on the scanner and I wanted to get everything. Also I unfortunately had to skimp on the legs and never got to hands and feet because my mom wanted us to get pedicures (how about that? XD)
But I WILL be doing those this week sometime hopefully!

And in other news I had to do a master study for my figure drawing class and chose Rubens's "Venus". When I was cleaning out my newsprint pad today I found some figure drawings from class last semester and compared one with the study from last night and just felt like sharing it because It's sort of a reminder to myself that I was able to get myself this far in just 5-6 months whenever I get discouraged ^_^


Old ---> left
Master study--> right

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This weekend I went home and seeing as i'd be in my room all Friday I decided i'd burn through hampton's book (again.) I did it once last year in a month, but since Peter Han's form exercises I felt like i'd be able to understand everything alot better. I was originally just going to go through chapter to chapter, but at the last minute thursday night I decided to make a...very precise schedule XD

At first I thought it might be TOO precise but much to my own surprise I followed it pretty closely :O This is the first time i've made such a schedule, so think I might do one again! Here's all of the sketches from that day. It was a loonng and fruitful one :)


















Sorry for the low-res phone pics. My sketchpad's too big to fully fit on the scanner and I wanted to get everything. Also I unfortunately had to skimp on the legs and never got to hands and feet because my mom wanted us to get pedicures (how about that? XD)
But I WILL be doing those this week sometime hopefully!

And in other news I had to do a master study for my figure drawing class and chose Rubens's "Venus". When I was cleaning out my newsprint pad today I found some figure drawings from class last semester and compared one with the study from last night and just felt like sharing it because It's sort of a reminder to myself that I was able to get myself this far in just 5-6 months whenever I get discouraged ^_^


Old ---> left
Master study--> right