Coming back from our long winter break, I expected to be a bit rusty with my life drawing, and this turned out to be accurate.
Wednesday:
Working in Charlotte's Cafe this week was pretty frustrating for me, since I felt a bit like I was starting from square one. I had to go back to basics by drawing the core shapes of the figures rather than a full drawing. I had trouble getting any kind of perspective onto the paper, so Mike suggested drawing the surroundings first to plant the model into, essentially making a box around him. This helped, but I still didn't have a good understanding of the ribcage's shape, so any accurate or energetic drawings were impossible. It was a good practice for me to just draw the shapes, and to draw the different poses in the same area of the page so I could improve my consistency.
By the end of the class, I feel like I got a few drawings that somewhat captured the pose and my perspective.
Part of this was due to Mike's suggestion to imagine & draw a ladder hanging from the Model's back. This helped me in that it made me realise just how much the size of the model changed from front to back, and let me really exaggerate the perspective. This resulted in a better image, surprisingly. Maybe I'm not exaggerating my perspective enough. I'll see what I can do with that perspective in the future.
Thursday:
The warm-up today was a bit less painful than on Wednesday, since I'd worked out some of the kinks in my drawing by the end of Wednesday's class. I'm still unhappy with my drawings though. I feel like a lot of them end up with inhuman proportions, just because I don't know the skeleton's shape underneath. In the Image below it's really visible:
I did get a few drawings that had aspects that I liked. The pull on this drawing's arms is clear to me, (even though overall the drawing is unclear and goofy)
I feel like i got the neck and shoulders right in the one below. at the same time, though, the shapes underlying the drawing aren't right. There is this annoying part of my drawings of female models where the upper body meets the hips, and rather than it looking natural, the ribcage... pinches? I'm not sure of the term, but basically I don't know how to connect the two. I'm thinking that it'll improve as I learn to raw the hips and ribcage better.
INK Drawing:
We also took a stab at ink drawing in class today. I was surprised here, since the results weren't as disastrous as I'd expected. Even though my inks definitely weren't correct perspective-wise, I managed to draw with control and restraint, which at least made the style consistent. I'll be curious to see how this affects my regular life drawing. I think I should probably try and imitate these S-lines and C-Lines when I go back to using Cont e sticks.
I do need improvement in the Ink drawings though. once again, perspective just isn't really there, so I should definitely try and think about that when making an Ink drawing. This image in particular suffers from the problem that Mike is always talking about; It looks like the perspective is from a really high angle, flattening out the image. This is really obvious in the thighs, since at the angle the model actually was, the tops of her thighs were nearly invisible. So again, perspective and proportion are the key issues.
To close this long post off, I want to list three things that I want to improve: Proportion (as in the size and shape of the ribcage, and the ribcages relationship to the hips), Perspective ( as in drawing things with a sense of scale, where things closer to me actually look closer), and anatomy. These are the core things that I think need to change.
Part of this was due to Mike's suggestion to imagine & draw a ladder hanging from the Model's back. This helped me in that it made me realise just how much the size of the model changed from front to back, and let me really exaggerate the perspective. This resulted in a better image, surprisingly. Maybe I'm not exaggerating my perspective enough. I'll see what I can do with that perspective in the future.
Thursday:
The warm-up today was a bit less painful than on Wednesday, since I'd worked out some of the kinks in my drawing by the end of Wednesday's class. I'm still unhappy with my drawings though. I feel like a lot of them end up with inhuman proportions, just because I don't know the skeleton's shape underneath. In the Image below it's really visible:
I did get a few drawings that had aspects that I liked. The pull on this drawing's arms is clear to me, (even though overall the drawing is unclear and goofy)
I feel like i got the neck and shoulders right in the one below. at the same time, though, the shapes underlying the drawing aren't right. There is this annoying part of my drawings of female models where the upper body meets the hips, and rather than it looking natural, the ribcage... pinches? I'm not sure of the term, but basically I don't know how to connect the two. I'm thinking that it'll improve as I learn to raw the hips and ribcage better.
INK Drawing:
We also took a stab at ink drawing in class today. I was surprised here, since the results weren't as disastrous as I'd expected. Even though my inks definitely weren't correct perspective-wise, I managed to draw with control and restraint, which at least made the style consistent. I'll be curious to see how this affects my regular life drawing. I think I should probably try and imitate these S-lines and C-Lines when I go back to using Cont e sticks.
I do need improvement in the Ink drawings though. once again, perspective just isn't really there, so I should definitely try and think about that when making an Ink drawing. This image in particular suffers from the problem that Mike is always talking about; It looks like the perspective is from a really high angle, flattening out the image. This is really obvious in the thighs, since at the angle the model actually was, the tops of her thighs were nearly invisible. So again, perspective and proportion are the key issues.
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| I definitely messed up my sense of shape here, as well as screwing up the basic shapes. Perspective also hasn't really been thought about. |
To close this long post off, I want to list three things that I want to improve: Proportion (as in the size and shape of the ribcage, and the ribcages relationship to the hips), Perspective ( as in drawing things with a sense of scale, where things closer to me actually look closer), and anatomy. These are the core things that I think need to change.
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| Broken Leg, but I like the way this turned out otherwise. |
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