10-25-2013, 06:55 PM
Well, go me - I already messed up on my goal to draw daily. It's really hard to do consistently without fail. Well, today's a new day, right?
At the very least, I'm trying to do some important research into proportions and learning the origin/insertion point of muscles. Wish there were some really simple diagrams out there for the latter that I can reference easily - I've been looking...
Think I'm gonna draw skeletons soon cause Halloween's coming up and THEY'RE SO SCARY D:D:D:!! Or maybe that they're a valuable exercise.
I've also stumbled upon a useful tutorial: http://nsio.deviantart.com/art/Nsio-expl...-401151718 - the way this artist makes the mannequin lit a lightbulb for me, with the joints/articulation, drawing the middle lines of the shapes to really get the 3D look/feel of an object. I've had a hard time trying to draw the body in boxes, and it just seems to make more sense to try to render them as the shapes they most resemble.
So I traced over a model in an attempt to understand the concept. It's sloppy and inaccurate, but it helped me think three-dimensionally. And that's kind of the key components of using reference, isn't it?
At the very least, I'm trying to do some important research into proportions and learning the origin/insertion point of muscles. Wish there were some really simple diagrams out there for the latter that I can reference easily - I've been looking...
Think I'm gonna draw skeletons soon cause Halloween's coming up and THEY'RE SO SCARY D:D:D:!! Or maybe that they're a valuable exercise.
I've also stumbled upon a useful tutorial: http://nsio.deviantart.com/art/Nsio-expl...-401151718 - the way this artist makes the mannequin lit a lightbulb for me, with the joints/articulation, drawing the middle lines of the shapes to really get the 3D look/feel of an object. I've had a hard time trying to draw the body in boxes, and it just seems to make more sense to try to render them as the shapes they most resemble.
So I traced over a model in an attempt to understand the concept. It's sloppy and inaccurate, but it helped me think three-dimensionally. And that's kind of the key components of using reference, isn't it?