30 second hand gestures

 

Loomis

Artist Study : Buscema

Always fun drawing from Conan, these are from Buscema pencils but inked by Tony DeZuniga.

15 min session : gestures

 For some reason blogger always insist on putting the last pictures at the top, so this is reversed from longer poses (2 mins - and 1 x 5min), so 1 minute, and then 30 seconds.

30 sec - 15 sec gestures

I have not done this in ages, but always. good practice:

 

30 second hand gestures

 I forgot to follow my own advice and , draw hands when you feel like procrastinating :P

I used this website to generate hand images on a 30 second timer.

And the all important page of drawing from memory without reference, so you can spot your weaknesses and work at them. Yes..it's always painful :D

Artist Studies

So why do I study the work by John Buscema?

Because I think he's an absolute master of figure drawing, he draws figure with believable weight, great anatomy and great expressions. The hard thing however is that he was often inked by people who interpreted his work in their own way, so you often loose the beauty of his figures, or they get stiffened up. 

It's also a fun excuse for me to read through some of those old comics, which is a lot of fun. I will say that he is a bit classic when it comes to compositions and panel layout. There are far better comic artists out there to study for that. 

So why study Gene Colan? 

Not that you can tell from my horrible sketch attempt below, but Gene Colan is moody, his characters swim in dark shadows, and he is also great at drawing cards, environments. And on top of that his figure work is absolutely amazing. It's just a shame that the writing wasn't on par with his work. I'm reading daredevil

Recall - Classic Measurements

 Just drawing the Loomis skeleton breakdown from memory, mainly just making note of the devisions of the classic 8 head measurement. It was actually a friend who pointed out to me once that there's more to be learned from "reading" Loomis than to look at the images :P And it's really true, it's in the text that he talks about the differences between the male and female skeleton, and once you read it, you'll see the differences better. 

And then these, for fun! :D

Loomis Anatomy

Starting a new sketchbook challenge, I call it Anatomy1. It covers the pages in the Loomis book that deal with Anatomy, going through the skeleton / bones, and muscles. It's only a few pages but good basic material to study.

Still continuing with artist studies too, below a page copied from Buscema drawings on the Black Widow.  

Pencil studies : Gene Colan

Throwing the work of Gene Colan in the mix, another one of the classic comic illustrators from the 70s. Doing them in pencil, so that if I want to ink something for practice, I can ink over these. Of course my drawings are terrible, but I highly recommend the art by Colan, these are form some Daredevil issues. He's one of the few artists from that time that bathes his figures and scenes in black, it's quite atmospheric.

More Biro sketches

All from Buscema comic work.

Brush ink

 Terrible job, but it's nice to play around :D

Part of why I did such a terrible job is tools and the type of paper/size I used. (I couldn't get nice thin lines with the brush) and second reason is that my underlying sketch was way too loose :P

More Conan

 Maybe going to try and do some (lazy) ink studies... well in this case pigment liner and sharpie.

More studies

 All terrible practice drawing from Conan

Buscema Studies

 Continuing the Buscema studies from Conan:

BUSCEMA LVL5 EXP 50

BUSCEMA LVL5 EXP 50

BUSCEMA LVL5 EXP 60

BUSCEMA LVL5 EXP 60

Hand sketches

 

Sketches

 Another 2, with biro on a small sketchpad, these are from Buscema Conan drawings inked by Alcala.

 

(BUSCEMA LVL 5 EXP 30)

Back to studies

 This is a very lazy attempt at getting back to doing the copies, but we have to start somewhere :D

Buscema Artist studies on a small pad, so doing 2 pages instead of 1.