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)