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Jarhead1
Joined: 02 Dec 2005 Total posts: 1077 Location: Harrisonburg, VA Gender: Male |
 Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 3:17 pm Post subject: Gannon's life drawing thread |
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I'm making a concerted effort to make a systematic study of life drawing. I've pulled a few resources together, like the Andrew Loomis books, and a few others. I've started meeting with a figure drawing sketch group once a week. I'll post some of the drawings here to gage progress. As always comments and crits are welcome.
To start it off, here is a picture I drew of my daughter:
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Jarhead1
Joined: 02 Dec 2005 Total posts: 1077 Location: Harrisonburg, VA Gender: Male |
| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 4:04 pm Post subject: |
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Here are the sketches from week 1 of the figure drawing group. I can see that I have some basic issues to work through with regard to proportion. The model was very tall and skinny, but I think I overdid it. I'm reading up on methods of measuring so hopefully I'll see some improvement.
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Jarhead1
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| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 4:05 pm Post subject: |
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Here are some sketches from week 2. Not a lot of improvement from last week, but I'll keep at it.
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| darkthorn Joined: 13 Dec 2007 Total posts: 19 Location: Hills of SC Age: 33 Gender: Male |
| Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 4:56 am Post subject: |
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| They are all very expressive and dynamic. Incredibly interesting.
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Jarhead1
Joined: 02 Dec 2005 Total posts: 1077 Location: Harrisonburg, VA Gender: Male |
| Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 2:09 pm Post subject: |
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Darkthorn: Thank you very much!
I've been using Andrew Loomis's book, "Figure Drawing for All It's Worth" to bone up on my anatomy and proportion. Since I cartoon most of the time, I can hide gaps in my knowledge that I can't get away with when attempting realism. Overall, I found that my knowledge of the muscles is pretty good from weight lifting. My knowledge of the bones, however is where I found a few cracks in the foundation.
This exercise exposed that my understanding of how the pelvis and femur work in the body. It doesn't seem like much but I feel like my drawing is improving with this knowledge. It'll take a little while to commit all this to memory and to automate the knowledge into my drawing, but it's a good start:
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Jarhead1
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| Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 2:11 pm Post subject: |
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Here are a couple of drawings from week 3 of the sketch group.
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