February '06 Jam: Corinna

[Downforit]

Nice job look for me soon

[Downforit]

Yo man your work is geat man I'm lookin forward to seeing the next

[arturros]

spx186- nice pic by pencil:) i like this skatch
leander- you know what i`m thinking about your pic:]
a can find here a lot of great pic;) good work;]

[Cyrano_One]

were is this months posting jam..?

[BoredGeek]

I've never participated in a Jam before, on this site or otherwise. I don't know anyone else who's into drawing. So anyway, here's my image.
I know I screwed some stuff up...like the head, the hand and the left shoulder.
It took me about 2 hours to do this if you can believe it. How long did you guys take to do your images?

[Liquid Shadow]

Beautiful jobs!! Really!

Here my favorite ones:

maverikanim (page 2) - I really like the style and the color
fanooch (page 3) - weird
kaligula (page 5) - I love the style
hy136 (page 6) - my favorite one! the face is so natural and lovely
putihcat (page 7) - simple but nice
spx186 (page - funny!



and here my little try

[RobUllman]

Here's a quick try from me...simul-posted over at my blog.

[BoredGeek]

Define "quick". How long did that take you? Nifty contrebution by the way...I love looking at other people's gesture drawings because I can learn how they approached the image. I like how you first drew a band across the torso for the breasts and butt, the same way someone would draw a band across a face to define the border for the eyes. Does everyone do that?

[RobUllman]

Thanks! I spent maybe 25-30 minutes on it, give or take a few.

I'm not sure if everyone uses the "guide lines" like I do, but I find it helps a lot with placement and proportions, especially with the challenging poses and gestures the Drawing Jam admins come up with.

[elmwucko]

BG- Your drawing is good. You are doing a great job of breaking the form into light and shadow, the line quality in the hair is nice. You obviously understand the shapes and forms that you are rendering.
One way to strengthen your drawing is to visualize the major relationships. Everything relates to everything else: its size, position, and angle are all relative to the other elements of the drawing. The more of these relationships that you can identify and establish, the more ?solid? your drawings will become.
A great tip given to me by one of my instructors is to look for the ?enclosures? ? every solid form has opposing ?sides? that form an enclosure.
The enclosures can be parallel: | |, they can form an envelope: / \, and they are not always visually directly across from one another ? they can be offset.
If you get these major relationships accurately, the drawing will ?read? well, even without details of the individual features. These are the relationships that establish the overall shapes of the major body masses. This is what you identify when you recognize someone from far away. These give the body its general ?character?. The smaller relationships determine more specific characteristics, but without the establishment of the larger relationships, they are not strong enough to ?carry? the drawing.
Here is the photo of Corinna standing, with notations for some of the various major enclosures
For instance, when you are looking at a torso from the front, the left and right side of the ribcage form an ?enclosure?(See lines A.) Once you have located the largest enclosures, then you can refine it further (See lines 1 ? 3.) Do the same with forms such as the pelvic area (lines 4 ? 5) and the legs (lines 6 ? 7.) You can take this approach as far as you want. Sometimes it gets ?interesting? like the enclosures of the muscles on the arms. Just remember, every left side has a right side, every front has a back ? even when it is hidden behind another object, or when it blends into another muscle.
One more thing to recognize is that the spine is rarely going to be directly in the center of the ribcage. Usually, the model is turned or tilted toward or away from your point of view, making the distance from the spine to the left edge (3a) different than the distance from the spine to the right edge (3b.)
When I am looking at my drawing and wondering why it doesn?t ?seem right? even though the details are rendered well, I can usually find a major relationship that could use some adjustment. For instance in my drawing, the left arm is a little too ?thick? compared to the right arm, and the space between the bottom of the chin and the top of the shoulder needs to be increased. Overall, the drawing is a bit thick; it could stand to be longer and narrow. Quite often, it is the more ?general? elements that make the difference; they are subtle and sometimes elusive.
I found that as I paid more and more attention to the larger relationships, my drawings ?read? better, even before the placement of details and rendering. Seeing these relationships should help you, too, no matter what approach or methods you use.
I hope this is helpful.

[BoredGeek]

Here's an ultra-sloppy quick sketch.

Also, ettique question: is there a limit to how many drawings and sketches you can flood the board with? Do things have to be somewhat polished before we post tthem?

Also, where's this month's jam! Can just anyone post jam pictures or only the mods?

[BoredGeek]

Oh and yeah, I meant to post these together.

[ex-tivel]

=]

[Vile Body]

Really enjoyed drawing her , even though her face looks nothing like this and the proportions are all wrong.

[Vile Body]

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