Side Torso + Conan Sketches

Some Bridgman studies, trying to figure out how the side muscles connect, I also looked at a Hogarth drawing to clarify a bit. To be continued! :D

Below sketches are from a few evenings ago, I wanted to try and use some ink and a brush while sketching from Conan The Barbarian (the original movie).

Front Torso Studies + Heads

Wanted to experiment by squinting my eyes and drawing the blacks of the face only:

 Some Conan The Barbarian sketches..It's gotta be said...THE MUSIC IN THAT FILM...that good!

Loomis Head Construction as by Proko

This is some stuff from a couple of days ago that I was too lazy to scan. But I found some cool instructional videos by Proko going over Loomis' head construction and actually explaining it in a really clear and condensed way.

My studies are pretty pointless to look at, just go and see the original video on Proko's channel! Also do yourself a favor and download the Loomis books for free! Just google it..it's totally legit.

I also did a page of faces from one of my all time favorite movies...ALIEN! But I was half asleep by that point.

ANATOMY: Torso Front View Studies

Did some studies from Bridgman in preparation for next week's anatomy course.

I then applied the same information to 2 figures from photo reference:

Then did 2 more using Hogarth's Dynamic Anatomy book to fill in the anatomy. Just keep in mind that this is probably all wrong, so just in case...ALWAYS STUDY the MASTERS. And not some random dudes' studies on the internet!

In a muscled model it would've definitely been easier to find the muscles, here I was really just guessing. I did already pick up a few nice tricks though that I'll keep in mind when doing my figures from imagination. ... I tell you... studying the figure is A LIFE LONG MISSION :)

Gestures

Busy times ahead, so probably won't have time to update much in the next 2 weeks apart from my weekly life drawing. Anyway below a mixed bag of some digital studies with scraps from my sketchbook below.

Life Drawing Sol Art Dublin

So instead of starting with the first drawing and work my way up to the last drawing of the night, I decided to post my favorite drawing first.  So now that I have your interest, let's dig into this nights' life drawing session.

So as always we started off with a couple of 1 minute gestures (grey tone added in Photoshop for clarity):

That one on the left below was actually the first one, you can tell by the messy lines around the arm/front torso.

We then started with the 1 pose broken up into 3 sessions of 30 minutes. The model we had is incredibly fit so she takes on the challenge of a standing pose! Standing poses are just so much nicer than a lying figure. The 3 drawings below were done after I finished my first long pose, just experimenting a bit with line and an inkwash:

Below are the 3 long pose drawings I did ( 25-30 minutes ) on an A3 pad with color pencils:

The effect of the cheap green color pencil with brown on top is quite funky! :)

Foodhall + Figure Sketches

I have a little sketchbook I take out now whenever we go have lunch in the foodhall, it forces me to draw small. So I don't get caught up into detail and instead just investigate how people sit. eat, etc...

Started off with some 30 seconds, pen on paper. Not caring about a nice drawing but trying to get a  convincing balance of weight and thinking about the pelvis/torso relation. Some turned out ok...but it's kinda hard admittedly!

Then filled a page (A4) with some 1 min poses:

I then opted to draw a dancing sequence, looking at how the shape of the leg changes and what muscles we can see. One thing I really do too often when I draw from imagination is to draw too many lines, and draw all the muscles. I really want to simplify this and just "suggest" muscles by contours and overlapping lines. I used a color pencil to draw the muscles I could see, but none of them really deserved a black line, except for some lines on the knee.

And because I am not a sexist pig, here is a longer male study :)  Funny enough this type of drawing is starting to look like Loomis, even though I did this unintentionally I also ignored the perspetive line I drew around his waist...I was just really interested in how the stomach area is different from the female form.