Thanks Jyonny, good to see you back too!
Today I was just practicing anatomy and accuracy by copying out notes from Redink:
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Trying to move more into painting so will try to go half line work with anatomy studies, half photoshop with artist studies. Once i get a few studies under my belt time to enter these CHOW thats im missing out on!
Your gestures are looking good. For the longer drawings try to stay loose like you are in your quick sketches for longer. Fight the urge to rush to details of the face and just keep mapping out shapes with light lines. Look at how Jeff Watts uses lines to map the shadow shapes before ever laying in tone. Oh and I signed up for the Watts online school btw :) Im learning a lot already and pushing myself harder than ever to get through all the figure phases. I feel pretty confident with heads so Im skipping to figures for now. You working on head phases I assume?
Hey Hypnagogic, yep just doing the head phase right now, got the Asaro head so just doing as many line studies from that, just in the abstract right now getting used to measuring proportions and angles. The Watts course just has so much to get through!
Not much to show for yesterday, was doodling mostly and just this one 3 value studies to show:
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Started with some gestures, Think my line quality is going down probably from doing the more academic drawings with the Asoro head, [
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Anatomy studies:
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Trying to get back to cartoony drawing by analysing disneys Tinkerbell, then trying to draw in different poses, hard to keep proportions but was fun to do.
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Hey! Your drawings are looking good, you seem to be focusing on your fundamentals which is a great place to start. I think what's letting you down is a lack of understanding of form. You're concentrating very hard on the lines and edges and not transferring the idea of 3d masses into your drawings. Hampton teaches this well, but otherwise try constructing your figures from 3D shapes like cubes and cylinders, this will improve your understanding : ) Keep up the hard work!
Hypnagogic_Haze: Thanks that model looks pretty accurate!
Eristhe: thanks as well, always looking for good feedback, I've got the Hampton book but haven't really gone into it will do for upcoming anatomy studies!
A round of life drawing:
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And continuing from yesterday; tinkerbell and poses but getting more and more off model :P
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Gotta push the comfort zone and go into more value painting.
Remember it's about the journey not the destination!
Thanks Jonny, have to find happiness in the process and journey as well :)
Asaro heads, the regular one is such a bear so many more lines than the memorised version on the right, didn't notice the one on the left has a lip problem, looks like he's smirking.
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Gestures:
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From Loomis taking his cube figures and trying to turn them in space, really challenging
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and some human shape simplification
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Yesterdays stuff. started with more gestures:
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Head studies and trying out expressions by copying them out and turning the head trying to redraw the expression, tough to keep it on model and recognisable as Pinocchio :P
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and to PS for value studies, looks like im staying too in the middle not enough of the darkess and lights values.
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OK more from Friday and saturday.
Gestures and hand study:
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Saw a planes of the head and tried copying it out, have to improve on values still more practice!
then tried applying it to more faces but didn't turn out so good :P
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Then at class we had drawing from a cast and rendering values with vine charcoal, which was a lot more fun than I expected, didn't get far in the rendering but makes it look more mysterious!
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Did my drawing shoulder in yesterday so mostly spent it resting, but the soreness is mostly gone now, so no lasting damage, gotta be more active and looking into yoga to try out in the morning.
Only did a gesture page, this time of UFC fighters:
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Hey Richie, keep up the hard work, getting the fundamentals down will pay off . If I can suggest something, try painting edge over edge instead of painting one edge until it meets another. It can help you avoid choppy transitions.