Olooriel's Practice Blog

[Olooriel]

@ZandraDragon
Thank you for the feedback!
They must produce a different brand of people where you live, I never get comments like those... I generally don't mind them looking, though.
Yeah, I know that about dragon anatomy, I just haven't studied much anatomy at all so far, even human, and no animal ones at all. For the moment, the human stuff has priority though.

Yesterday was a good day, and I got hours of concentrated work in. Today was an off day. I had to put aside some other stuff midway through just to be able to get any drawing done at all, but then that unfinished stuff proved to be incredibly distracting. And it's not likely to get any better tomorrow...

Warmup - planes are somewhat ok, but ellipses are my nemesis:


Hands from Loomis. Even holding the pencil the proper way felt just incredibly awkward and uncomfortable today (I hope this image shows up, imgur doesn't seem to like it any more than I do):


My own hands from life in similar poses:


Downloaded Proko's skelly app, but I'm not very used to handling an ipad and still have trouble posing it without ending up with something that's anatomically impossible (and incredibly painful, in an arm-through-ribcage sort of way), so I resorted to sketching some aweful skulls from it instead. I noticed that I keep making that particular proportion mistake (big chin, hardly any upper jaw to nose) repeatedly.


Then I went to study Proko's hip "bucket", but I don't find it to be a particularly helpful simplification so far because it doesn't depict the tilt adequately... also, ellipses again. Which rounds off a perfectly awful day of drawing.