Meat House

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Following the previous post, these are the rest of what I did for this class. Since the end of that class it’s been difficult to make myself do the level of admittedly boring, repetitive, and lengthy anatomy studies I’d been able to do during a class. I had been able to, every few days or so, for a month, sketch animals live in Taipei Zoo when I visited. Sketching animals from live observation is easily frustrating, especially at first, but ultimately helpful. Pets would be great resource for this too, but I don’t have any.
 
These projects always starts with a set of rules, a brief. Then a lot of exploring sketches, going for a feeling or a look. It’s important to have a cut off time for this stage, or it could easily drag on with too few thumbnails. Once there is a selection, a couple top choices are picked to take further for clearer sketch. After that it’s time for a blue pencil (so far all traditional) sketch. I have a light box, so I put the blue pencil sketch under new paper, and starts with the surface, “final” drawing, then go on to figure out how the skeleton would look like by consulting lots and lots and lots of reference of any and every kind I can get my hands on. This is so because for this class I needed to label all the bones and muscles, and also because anatomy books only contain so many different basic animals, and our artistic imagination knows no boundaries. Then I move on to muscular page, and finally the rig page. All were required in this class, or I would never thought of putting myself through all this on my own. All proved very educational to go through.