Jed's Chicken Scratches

[Pictomancer]

Long time no post. Been suffering through bad intermittent internet, and you'd think it'd make me more productive, but no. It did succeed ins lowly driving me insane.

Some really bad no reference sketches. My drawing (especially the no ref ones) needs a lot of work.



Some gesture/anatomy studies (it just feels like they always go side by side) based on illustrations by Shunya Yamashita




Intended drawing studies of photo referenced portraits.

I think I somewhat get now what Ursula meant by "Doing it all in straight lines and adding a few selected curves is usually a very strong workflow."

Was trying to simplify the portraits into lines and angles and trying to match em as closely as possible, and then slowly curve em out as I go forward.

Unfortunately at the moment I can only seem to get 2/3 of the trinity between scale/proportion, distance, and angle of those lines :\

The portraits only have a remote resemblance with the references.



Reference side by side and WIP:








And some thumbnail gesture studies for another intended piece.

Referenced from various pinup, illustrations and photos.

Right now I'm drawn to working with no 2, the lower thumbnails I like the idea, but I can't solve the anatomy/gesture properly in my head (the references are small, and not as clear as the intended gesture that I drew as thumbnails)



comments and constructive critique are always welcome.