Practicing hands but I only had a 5H on hand so the sketches are light.
Quick sketches with some reference so I can see tendons and muscle stuff.
Gesture practice for hands
Tag: Gestures
Sketches again
Mall sketches
Honestly drew poses every day..
..Except for the past two days because I was reading Dostoevsky and Kierkegaard, and I had a job interview last Thursday. I’ve been too lackluster in updating this improvement blog because my drawings have been practices of poses. I’m up to 500 gestures but I still feel like an amateur when it comes to certain body positions, ex if the pose is angled below the waist. I should concentrate more on the torso, and every now and then draw the stretching muscles on the shoulders. I will leave the hands and feet as separate studies instead of spending my 45-30 sec. on detailing them in poses (unless I have extra time).
Also practicing on head likeliness. I’m sketching them according to the advice I was given in Hampton’s head video (proportions and placement).
Gestures and actually hands.
That didn’t go the way I thought it would.
Before trying to practice drawing heads, I wanted to see what would happen if I sat through a longer session and shorter amount of time than my previous gesture practices. No erasing or tuning up the drawings. I wanted to see where I was going.
Well, it was worse than I thought. At 30 second intervals instead of 45 (and 40 weird poses per session), I panicked more than I anticipated. No time to think where to put down my strokes. It didn’t help that I didn’t draw yesterday either.
I’ll try again tomorrow since I wasn’t use to the pace. I dove into some notes in Hampton’s figure drawing book since it went more in depth than his videos.
This is pretty embarrassing too, but I forgot so much steps in his head construction lecture. I think I have to refer to skull studies to understand it more. I’m not even to the muscles yet, but I regret not learning figure drawing when I was younger. Oh well. Better late than never.
Gesture warmups, then notes.
Yesterday I went to B&N and got a cheap skeleton book. It didn’t have a lot of pages but it was pretty much the only other anatomy book I can find that didn’t lean towards medical ref. The selection for artist anatomy books was disappointing.
Today I’m sitting through a session of quick poses. I stopped cleaning up the gesture lines because it was eating up my time. Watching head construction video again.
Edit: Stopped at 27 minutes to go to bed. Due to the rain I am tired earlier than expected.
Gestures to become construction anatomy.
I sat through a session on Quickposes to finish sketching through some gestures before refining them to turn into construction drawings. I thought I would be done but I got distracted with some watercolor videos. I also watched Week 3 of Hampton’s videos so I know what to expect when I get done with Week 2. Gonna have to take a lot of notes for the next one. I’m tired.
Forearm hassles.
Watching vids on the movement of the forearm.
Slow drawing day.
I was busy today and wasn’t able to do my assignments but I was able to do a few more gestures. Long day. Now I sleep.
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