Posemaniacs (60 second poses)
Monday, June 16, 2014
Loomis Heads
Not going to lie...todays' loomis session was a bit boring. It'll take me a few redraws to try and get those planes on the face to stick in my head.
Posemaniacs (60 second poses)
Posemaniacs (60 second poses)
Sunday, June 15, 2014
Thoughts on copying / master studies
First of all a couple of warm ups.
I started by drawing a loomis skull from memory (and failed bad :P), so I then went back to Loomis and studied some of the basic head designs again. Maybe I am just incredibly slow or stupid, but I need to really go back and forth until the information is truly absorbed. So expects heads for at least another month before I move on to another part of the body.
And just to keep my muscles going on the body I also keep doing my 60 second gestures. Even though they are "gestures" I try to have a bit of structure and form in them.
Now... I just wanted to share my thoughts on "copying" and "drawing form masters". When I was a kid I NEVER copied anything. I thought that because I was a human being, and an obvious talent in drawing, the knowledge of human form would come to me naturally..since I am myself a human.
Then I started to think I was just a crap artist since it wasn't coming to me, and I stopped drawing for a while (a few times in my life actually). The thing is that "knowledge" does not come to a person naturally. A doctor is not born with that knowledge and neither is an accountant, information/facts need to be studies.
What does come natural is your desire to draw and some people will probably be more adept at the act of drawing/painting than others. But everybody has to learn anatomy. Most of the really awesome talented (young) people, copied their favorite cartoons and comics all the time. They might not even need to study anatomy, because they already learned the "shortcuts", the shortcuts the other artists have developed for suggested form/anatomy.
Case and point, check out the first cave drawings...hardly the stuff you see in a disney film or canvas! Or those renaisance painters. Check out those faces and proportions...that's not what a human looks like, but it is what every other painting at the time looked like. They all learned from their masters and the great artists put their own spin on things, but knowledge was obtained through copying their masters.
So anyway, if you are an obnoxious kid like I was, put that pride aside and start copying everything you think looks interesting. You'll thank me for it when you're awesome :D
END RANT
I started by drawing a loomis skull from memory (and failed bad :P), so I then went back to Loomis and studied some of the basic head designs again. Maybe I am just incredibly slow or stupid, but I need to really go back and forth until the information is truly absorbed. So expects heads for at least another month before I move on to another part of the body.
Now... I just wanted to share my thoughts on "copying" and "drawing form masters". When I was a kid I NEVER copied anything. I thought that because I was a human being, and an obvious talent in drawing, the knowledge of human form would come to me naturally..since I am myself a human.
Then I started to think I was just a crap artist since it wasn't coming to me, and I stopped drawing for a while (a few times in my life actually). The thing is that "knowledge" does not come to a person naturally. A doctor is not born with that knowledge and neither is an accountant, information/facts need to be studies.
What does come natural is your desire to draw and some people will probably be more adept at the act of drawing/painting than others. But everybody has to learn anatomy. Most of the really awesome talented (young) people, copied their favorite cartoons and comics all the time. They might not even need to study anatomy, because they already learned the "shortcuts", the shortcuts the other artists have developed for suggested form/anatomy.
Case and point, check out the first cave drawings...hardly the stuff you see in a disney film or canvas! Or those renaisance painters. Check out those faces and proportions...that's not what a human looks like, but it is what every other painting at the time looked like. They all learned from their masters and the great artists put their own spin on things, but knowledge was obtained through copying their masters.
So anyway, if you are an obnoxious kid like I was, put that pride aside and start copying everything you think looks interesting. You'll thank me for it when you're awesome :D
END RANT
Saturday, June 14, 2014
Dublin People Sketching
I'm also changing my direction in people sketching. Trying to go more "realistic" which is a lot more difficult since moving and walking people don't allow for a long study. So not really sure if this will work out, but we'll see. I'm also using a HB pencil to force myself into more laboured detail drawings.
Friday, June 13, 2014
LIFE DRAWING: Sol Art Gallery Long Poses
Starting out with a couple of 1 minute gestures:
30 Minute drawings (1 pose 90 mins, 3 different angles)
The missing pages
Here are the "good" drawings from my horrible session a few days back, jumping back and forth between digital and traditional is pretty good.
But it's not always easy making the switch for a number of reasons. First of all these were drawn on an A3 pad, which is bulky and hard to really get a picture of the overall image unless you're working on a board/easel. Another thing is trying to replicate the strokes / opacity used in digital medium.
Posemaniacs 60 seconds:
Big mistake here is how hard I pressed on the lead, I really have to keep reminding myself to go from light to hard.
The others are 5 minute drawings:
I only scanned half the page of the image below apparently...I kinda like the composition of it this way.
But it's not always easy making the switch for a number of reasons. First of all these were drawn on an A3 pad, which is bulky and hard to really get a picture of the overall image unless you're working on a board/easel. Another thing is trying to replicate the strokes / opacity used in digital medium.
Posemaniacs 60 seconds:
Big mistake here is how hard I pressed on the lead, I really have to keep reminding myself to go from light to hard.
I only scanned half the page of the image below apparently...I kinda like the composition of it this way.
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Loomis Heads Continued
I just sat through my last 2 hour recorded session for my course. I really feel I've received a complete toolkit to continue my journey into mastering the figure at some stage in my life :P Maybe when I'm a bit less tired I'll write some sort of review for the course in case people are interested.
So to take it easy today here are a few Loomis studies: (note to self: read stuff before saving jpg - sentence in bold should read: "I then tried to imagine what drawing (A) would look like :P)
So to take it easy today here are a few Loomis studies: (note to self: read stuff before saving jpg - sentence in bold should read: "I then tried to imagine what drawing (A) would look like :P)
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