Wardy's New Sketchbook :)

[Wardy]

Some gestureal female figure studies.
Learnt further about using lines of action as well as using cylinders and other shapes to construct form.
Fairly happy with the results but I have a lot to learn :)

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Great start man, really nice studies , though i wouldnt use too many photos or do too many mattes just yet. Concentrate on your painting skills. Having said that, nice work on that last enviro!

Thanks very much, yes just wanted to try something new and saw a nice sky pic :)
Cheers!

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Nice studies, keep it up! I agree with monkeybread, be careful about trying to use too many photoshop h4x early on, it's better to learn how to do things by hand and then when you're comfortable with them find ways to shortcut the process. Your environments are looking really nice though, and doing the comp studies like you did from the Feng Zhu pieces is great practice. :)

For your latest study with the chest muscles, your study looks good but if you want to get in-depth with figure / anatomy study, I'd recommend getting your hands on Stephen Peck's "Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist" or David K. Rubins' "The Human Figure". Posemaniacs is handy for gesture studies, but the muscle texture maps don't wrap over the forms in the way that real muscles do and they have the potential to mislead you in terms of anatomy study, so using an artist with some nice clean reference plates will be helpful I think.

Great stuff, keep up the good practice!

yes that was just for an experiment really, but thanks for the advice will steer clear of that until im good enough to take shortcuts. Yeh feng studies are great fun too :)

Ok that sounds like a plan, defo need to learn more about anatomy, will have a look at both of those thanks for the recommendation :)

Thanks very much, will keep going :D