Me... kind of... I built this on a wire figure that was more 3D than most I do. I think it actually works better for me. I was hoping I could get a good figure down for my graphic novel I want to do, but alas I still need much more practice.
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Faces 20070930
Face practice, mainly fusion, but some Anime. I also did a stick figure of a woman I saw biking past the coffee shop.
Wire Figure Fusion 20070930
I did this in light pencil, an H, I think. It is a fusion figure practice of a male. The scan is kind of light.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Wire Figure 20072709 Page 1
This is my practice at drawing a full figure, I am going to do more with this figure and it is based slightly on a pose a friend of mine did.
Fusion Face 20070927
This is what some people call a Fusion drawing, meaning it is a fusion of Western and Eastern elements, Japanese and American. I plan on cleaning this one up and inking it soon.
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Monday, September 10, 2007
Gonna post a random picture I drew while in a coffee shop in Macomb. It was mainly so I could look at hashing and lines a little bit more, as well as practice my own lines. I plan on doing this sometime in the next few days.
I have started another new story. This one based upon an old short story I wrote about a magical cat and what it would do to get free of the house where it is bound. I should have the first chapter up some time in the next week or two.
I also plan on adding links to the two books I am using to learn how to draw from, that should be Wednesday by the time I get around to that.
I have started another new story. This one based upon an old short story I wrote about a magical cat and what it would do to get free of the house where it is bound. I should have the first chapter up some time in the next week or two.
I also plan on adding links to the two books I am using to learn how to draw from, that should be Wednesday by the time I get around to that.
Sunday, September 9, 2007
Male Elf Full Drawing
Week two of training myself to draw!!! Motivation is good, although free time seems to be getting more and more convoluted and unavailable.
I did a full drawing, not a free drawing since the image was not my own, but one that carried out the stick figure through a wire mesh and into a real person. That is if you can call a male elf a real person. The full body image didn't turn out very well. The individual face turned out a lot better. I think I need to start learning to draw bigger. The full figure would probably have turned out a lot better if I would have blown it up to a size relative to the large head on the bottom left. Musculature looks ok... not the best, but it follow some muscle lines. The figure's proportion seems all right too, although I'm not terribly happy with it. I think the body is a little disproportionate along with the upper left shoulder. I am happy with the hands, although they are not perfect, they at least look like hands. Same thing with the feet. I think the hair on the big head is about the best I have ever drawn.
No homework on this topic for now. Although I still have to draw a landscape and use hash shading yet.
I'm also pasting up my dynamic stick figures from a few days ago. They are starting to turn out better than the week before.
My writing is way behind. It seems I have a harder time scheduling it than I do with my drawing, and when I do find time to do it I can't always write. I can't always get into the flow of things, but I am gonna try harder next week to get writing in.
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Hand Control and Technique Week 1
Hand control seems like it is going to be hard to achieve than I thought. It seems like I am not too bad at shading, keeping the lines the same amount apart, yet I am not too good at keeping them the same length. Things are progressing slowly, as they always do for the first week or two. It seems to take me a bit before I have that sudden lurch forward, I have a horizontal path before the steep part of the learning curve.
I find the different types of hatching very fascinating, especially when applied in mass to one drawing. It is very interesting how everything blends together to provide both texture and shadow.
I am actually behind on this practice I completed today, due to things in my life, hopefully future ones will not be behind. Next week I plan on trying to draw a landscape using different types of lines and hatching that I practiced this week. Then after that I will return to practicing the hatching itself.
Monday, September 3, 2007
Day 1 of My Trying to Learn How to Draw
I retreated to Borders today after work, I figured the relaxed atmosphere combined with some tea would provoke me to stay on schedule. However I failed to take into account book browsing which easily killed an hour of my time and a good $50 of my money. I did finally make it to a table, complete with tea in hand. Today I worked on Dynamic Stick Figures, which turned out ok. I have scanned in the accompanied drawings.
Total Time Practiced: 30 Minutes
Figures Drawn: 15-ish, some not shown
Positives: Starting to get a better sense of poses, especially the shoulders and torso relationships. The upper shoulder is very fascinating, trying to figure out how much is actually showing to the perspective and how much is hidden. To me, this seems to help sculpt the torso itself and what angles of it are seen. I also try to embrace using curves to draw arms and legs.
Negatives: Still too edgy, not getting into the zone. This happens sometimes, especially when ideas and creativity are popping. I can have a hard time focusing on just one thing. I also try to draw way to damn fast.
Looks like I am free of an obligatory drawing until Sunday, which is Free Drawing.
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