Jaik's Sketches & Thoughts

[Jaik]

Spiffy - Started doing more portraits, mostly some 3min gestural ones, I see wisdom in your advice, thanks :)

Monkeybread - Yay anatomy lol.. I started getting back in to ye olde loomis, really helped, thanks for the sound advice :)

Heavenwill - I'm going to try this targeted approach, work, study, apply, repeat. See if that helps.

Cj Marsh - Thanks man! :) Anatomy was the go this week as you can see.

Thanks for stopping by everyone! :3

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After checking out ImSkepticals sketchbook I really saw the advantage in doing a single, well thought out post a week instead of updating every other day whenever I have time. So here is the first weekly post, which I will now probably try and do every Monday.. I think..

Gestures 2min-5min


Quick study


The fail, took most of a day to do too :(

This week was an anatomy focused week. I started doing gestures again as warm up since I stopped doing this quite some time ago. The serious work was started by first doing a quick study of a torso and then attempting (and failing) to draw and render a figure from my imagination. This was a surprisingly good exercise, it really showed me where my weak points laid. I then did some anatomy drawing to refresh my mind and really work on the way the muscles work and attach on the front of the torso, I will be doing similar drawings for the rest of the body as I go on.

Anatomy...


And more anatomy..


And more...

I retried to create a figure from imagination, using no reference to see if I could apply what I learnt from the anatomy study. I saw an improvement, but not a hell of a lot. The main issue I found was with my proportions, it's amazing how quick I got rusty with them as I haven't really been practising figurative work lately. A trouble spot for me is that the distance between the pelvis and the rib cage was always too large in my works, also in a fair few of the gestures I have been doing. So back to Loomis and his proportions, I wont bother uploading them as I did them traditionally and just on scraps of paper.

Attempt two, a couple of hours


Fixing it up, working out some kinks in the antomy and analysing what I did wrong.


Gesturing from imagination, always fun.


15min study (new facebook cover photo :P)


Colour/Mood study, 2.5hrs

Also a couple of requests done for friends, one is a tattoo, the other is a birthday present. So many of my friends have birthdays in January, another reason why its going to be a slow month as everyone is having 21st party's and I get raged at if I stay home and draw >.>

Tattoo


Dog - Present

In other news I really need to work out a proper schedule, do some research and plan it out well, not half arsed like I have in the past. But when I attempt to start I feel like I'm just wasting time and I should just draw instead, I feel guilty for wasting time working out when to draw when I should be drawing. If that makes sense. Anyone else get that?

Also, I think I need to make these pics a bit smaller, this week is a bit too large lol..

[URL="http://jaikart.com/blog/2013/01/weekly-update-jan1/"]The post on my blog[/URL]