Samura Cont'd

 All these sketches are from the Blade of the Immortal Omnibus 4. His art actually gets better as the series continues, by omnibus 7 my jaw hits the ground every couple of pages. 

(Hiroaki Samura LVL 1 EXP 60)

(Hiroaki Samura LVL 1 EXP 70)

Daily Pages

Continuing with my daily pages, I'm tight on time so doing these pretty rushed. But still better to do them, than to skip it. 

(Hiroaki Samura LVL 1 EXP 40)

(Hiroaki Samura LVL 1 EXP 50)

Artist studies + Progress

 Continuing to sketch from my chosen masters, I should put some more time into the but better to fill a page than to wait until there's more time to do it properly.

(Hiroaki Samura LVL 1 EXP 20)

(Hiroaki Samura LVL 1 EXP 30)

I made a list of the challenges I've set myself and my progress. The goal is to complete 50 pages of a specific subject (artist studies, hands, feet, etc..). So currently I am tracking them on an excel sheet.

I'm on the last 10 pages for a few of these: Heads, hands and the Artist Study : John Buscema. I'll try and complete the hands and heads this year still..somehow just lost track of things :P

Originally I was going to continue once I completed a challenge (like the Mannikin), but I think it's better to create a new challenge. Potentially a Mannikin LVL2, and set some new parameters to keep things interesting.

Studies

 I've let my drawing practice slip, time to bring it the sketch book more often. Doing more artist studies (bad ones..to uphold tradition! :P)

(TORIYAMA LVL 1 EXP 50)

(TORIYAMA LVL 1 EXP 60)

(Hiroaki Samura LVL 1 EXP 10)

I've always loved Samura's gestural work on Blade of the Immortal, although how I discovered him was by random volumes of Blade of the Immortal on sale on a second hand shop. So only years later I tried reading from the start, and I didn't really like his artwork/ storytelling in the first volumes. But it's very interesting to trace his development as an artist. He's also a huge inspiration from guys like Otomo (Akira).

Buscema Studies

(BUSCEMA LVL 4 EXP 100) ->LVL UP!

Toriyama studies

 (TORIYAMA LVL 1 EXP 40)

Gene Colan Study 01

 I stopped my studies for a while, although I did a page here and there but forgot to upload. 

(COLAN LVL 1 EXP 10)

Buscema page

My focus being pulled into other stuff, but did a Buscema page study, keeping loose and sketchy.

(BUSCEMA LVL 4 EXP 30)

Mannikin Practice

 Drawing from a movie this time and digital using Storyboard Pro.

(MANNIKIN LVL 6 EXP 10)

Heads

Some head studies from Photos, great practice that I should do a lot more. 

(HEADS LVL 5 EXP 30)

(BUSCEMA LVL 4 EXP 20)

Loomis Mannikin: COMPLETED

Completed 50 pages of studies for the Loomis Mannekin!

(MANNIKIN LVL 5 EXP 90)

 

(MANNIKIN LVL 5 EXP 100 -> LVL UP)

ARTIST STUDY + HEAD

 More pages! This stuff is addictive!

(BUSCEMA LVL 4 EXP 10)

(TORIYAMA LVL1 EXP 20)

This last page is drawing the head from reference pictures, I'm trying to be minimal, keeping in line with the comic art I've been studying a bit more. But still keeping the proportions realistic.

(HEADS LVL 5 EXP 20)

MANNIKIN Loomis Continued

top 2 studies from the Loomis book.

(MANNIKIN LVL 5 EXP 60)

(MANNIKIN LVL 5 EXP 70)

Then a page with no reference. I realised I wasn't using z depth, something I'll focus on more in future practice.

(MANNIKIN LVL 5 EXP 80)

 

MANNIKIN Loomis

More Loomis studies and 1 page with no reference (ouch, needs lots of work :P)

(MANNIKIN LVL5 EXP 20)

(MANNIKIN LVL5 EXP 30)

(MANNIKIN LVL5 EXP 40)

(MANNIKIN LVL5 EXP 50)

Continuing the Mannikin

(MANNIKIN LVL 5 EXP 10)

(HEADS LVL 5 EXP 10)

Artist Study: Buscema

2 more pages of John Buscema studies from Wolverine. 

(BUSCEMA LVL3 EXP 90)

(BUSCEMA LVL3 EXP 100 -> LVL UP!)

HEADS

(HEADS LVL 4 EXP 90)

(HEADS LVL 4 EXP 100)

Heads

Some more Loomis studies.  I feel that this time, now that I spent some time on skulls. It's sinking in a big better, the landmarks are making more sense.  Eventually it'll all sink in :P, 2 more page studies to complete the 50 pages of head drawings challenge.

(HEADS LVL 4 EXP 80)

LVL UP

 More sketching!

(MANNIKIN LVL4 EXP 100 -> LVL UP!)

(HEADS LVL4 EXP 70)

(BUSCEMA LVL3 EXP 80)

Grinding

 Continuing on the sketchbook challenges of 50 pages in: the Loomis Mannikin & Buscema Artist Study. The hope really is to do keep this up every day, even when life gets busy. 30 minutes a day should be enough to fill even just 1 page. Consistency with anything is more important than quantity.

(BUSCEMA LVL 3 EXP 70)

(MANNIKIN LVL 4 EXP 80)

(MANNIKIN LVL 4 EXP 90)