Loomis + 30 second gestures

Couple of heads

There's a reason why I'm focusing on drawing heads...I'm pretty bad at it. These were sketches from a movie...used the construction method and failed horribly. I then started to draw larger for the 2 last heads without construction and they turned out better. Nothing like the reference though :P

Loomis + Football gestures

Gestures from football images:

Loomis studies:

Morning Figures

Drew some figures from a new site, while listening to a podcast about settings GOALS through PROJECTS.

LIFE DRAWING : Sol Art Gallery Long Poses

Starting out with 10 x 1 minute poses

Followed by 3  x 30 mins one long pose (mostly a lying pose).

ANGLE #1: (picture above right) Man, this angle drive me crazy...made me feel like taking out the ruler because the shapes are so abstract at such an extreme foreshortening.

ANGLE #2: Better angle, but still very abstract and the only part of the head visible was the brows and part of the nose. Did 2 quick-ish attempts and moved on :P

ANGLE #3: This was the pose I decided to settle on. Tried some rendering with HB.

So for the last 30 mins I did a more dynamic drawing (of a lying pose..talk about contradiction). I have to say I really made up most of the light and guessed what the muscles would look like. It would really be nice to work from a model with a strong lightsource (click image to enlarge).

BONUS : I also did some drawings before I went life drawing at St. Stephens Green and the bus stop.

Michael Hampton + Long Pose

Tomorrow I'll be joining the long pose life drawing session in Dublin again. For today's study I looked at how Michael Hampton approaches the head. No surprise he uses the same construction and measurements as Loomis.

These studies are from his book which I highly recommend buying if you are serious about drawing the human figure LINK.

I then drew heads based on some poses from my usual reference sites.

And a long pose, focussing on construction and using line to describe form.

Posemaniacs 30/90 seconds

30 second posemaniac gestures

90 seconds, trying to focus more on shape and structure