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)

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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)

Buscema page

 

(BUSCEMA LVL 3 EXP 60)

No reference pages

 So an important step in the studying, is to also do pages of drawing without reference. Not to replicate perfectly what you've been studying, but to see how much sticks and where you are struggling / missing information. A constant back and forth is the recipe to improving your skills. Just studying alone doesn't do it, it's like learning a paragraph from a book, you need to learn how to make your own paragraphs by experimenting and making mistakes :)

(MANNIKIN LVL 4 EXP 70)

(HEADS LVL4 EXP 60)

New week!

 So continuing my (daily) sketching habit, working through 50 page studies for HEADS, MANNIKIN and artist study : JOHN BUSCEMA (aka Big John :P).

(MANNIKIN LVL 4 EXP 60)

(BUSCEMA LVL 3 EXP 50)

Sketches

 Keeping going with head studies (skulls are fun) and the mannikin and Buscema artist studies.

(MANNIKIN LVL 4 EXP 50)

(HEADS LVL 4 EXP 50)

(BUSCEMA LVL 3 EXP 40)

R.I.P Toriyama

 Just heard the news of his passing. I think he may have been my biggest influence on drawing when I was a kid. I made an entire comic (all just heads talking :P) totally ripping off his style when I was a young kid. So for tribute decided to sketch from the master, I may do an artist study of him..I love the cartoonig in his work, his expression are great!

(TORIYAMA LVL 1 EXP 10)

Basics

 Repeating these core exercises, the better we know the fundamentals, the easier we'll be able to do the rest :D

For the head that basic Loomis model (although I think I prefer the one from How to Draw the Marvel way, even though it's basically the same). And drawing more skulls, to better know the placement of the brow, nose, cheeks. Also how the teeth  are placed, which is something you don't see but it really helps.

(HEADS LVL 4 EXP 40)

Repeating the Loomis mannikin model in its most basic. Perfect frame for gesture drawing in it's most simplistic form.

(MANNIKIN LVL 4 EXP 40)

head studies

 I dislike all these drawings, but all counts for practice :P

(HEADS LVL 4 EXP 20)

(HEADS LVL 4 EXP 30)

Drawing the Skull

 Reading some Loomis and being reminded that learning about underlying structure is important. It's always easier to draw when you know what makes the shapes. I don really suck at drawing the skull, so let's put some work into it :P

(HEADS LVL3 EXP 100) -> LVL UP!

I used a 3d model of a skull to do some studies, I used this one : LINK

(HEADS LVL4 EXP 10)

Buscema Heads

 

(J.BUSCEMA LVL3 EXP 20)

(J.BUSCEMA LVL3 EXP 30)

Heads

 A little combo of head structure copies and some Buscema copies.

(J.BUSCEMA LVL3 EXP 10)

(HEADS LVL3 EXP 90)