12-04-2015, 02:56 AM
@phainting: Thanks! I always waged a war against stiffness in my figures. Now finally I start to see a glimpse of victory ahead :)
Ha! These two sketches might not look like much, but each has a little backstory, I´d like to share.
The bear attack was done during a RPG session when a party member was attacked during hunting. I started with the sketch and suddenly realized, I had never drawn a bear before. With no way to get reference, I decided to draw something I had never drawn before, trying out how my visual memory has improved over the past few years (I had of course seen bears before on photos and real life) It turned out ok. Looking at reference after finishing, I found some mistakes, but nothing too serious. I´ll do a couple of studies of bears, so it should be a permanent addition to my visual library.
The second sketch is just a nice example of how ideas sometimes form. I started out wanting to draw a female figure. Nothing else in mind. After a few light strokes I saw a back view in the scribbles, so I built upon that. Then I thought of some sort of pinup while developing the forms, but during that I had the idea of some kind of dress that is growing out of her body or being part of her body which ended in an organically grown dress of wood and leaves, leading to the dryad sketch
Ha! These two sketches might not look like much, but each has a little backstory, I´d like to share.
The bear attack was done during a RPG session when a party member was attacked during hunting. I started with the sketch and suddenly realized, I had never drawn a bear before. With no way to get reference, I decided to draw something I had never drawn before, trying out how my visual memory has improved over the past few years (I had of course seen bears before on photos and real life) It turned out ok. Looking at reference after finishing, I found some mistakes, but nothing too serious. I´ll do a couple of studies of bears, so it should be a permanent addition to my visual library.
The second sketch is just a nice example of how ideas sometimes form. I started out wanting to draw a female figure. Nothing else in mind. After a few light strokes I saw a back view in the scribbles, so I built upon that. Then I thought of some sort of pinup while developing the forms, but during that I had the idea of some kind of dress that is growing out of her body or being part of her body which ended in an organically grown dress of wood and leaves, leading to the dryad sketch