JyonnyNovice - from Novice to Master!

[JyonnyNovice]

BlackDelphin Hey! thanks for the encouragement, I'm pushing through it! I'll come check out your stuff soon too ^^


All kinds of madness going on around me for the last few weeks. No place to draw, after going to the library for 2 days it closed down for a month for building work. Just been sketching and practising stuff in my sketchbook at spare moments and going to life drawing. Got my drawing space back now though so should have more to show in the coming weeks.

Some stuff from life drawing:

Felt stuck a bit like I mentioned above so switched back to pencil and decided to approach it with a more clear goal, like Smrrr suggested I do. Focusing on construction and overlaps this time, feel much better about it since I felt like I learned a lot.







I've been reading Vilppu's Drawing Manual a lot this last week or so and also watched some Jeff Watts quicksketch - next week I'll try to approach it like I did above with more time on construction, using some Vilppu techniques (gesture with movement to the lines with spherical and boxy forms on top to clearly show pinch / stretch / twist) and try and map the shadows on top like Jeff Watts does. Seems like a pretty solid and systematic approach to studying anatomy from life. Like this one (I erased the construction lines):



Lastly a WIP watercolour portrait of my little girl for my painting class:



The head body connection is all kinds of messed up since the shoulders start in the wrong place so I'll probably extend the swirly stuff on the left and pull it around and cover up everything below the collar.