Anatomy and Sketchbook Thread of Heozart

[Rebeccak]

Heozart,

Welcome aboard! :)

It's good to see you start with the 50 Portraits Workshop - it's a great exercise, and I highly encourage you to do as many copies as possible.

One thing I would recommend with respect to your shading is to smoothly shade along the contours of the form - try not to sketch, but rather shade with your pencil in a singular direction along the contour of the form as though you are moulding the form with your fingers.

If you could tell us a bit about your art background and training, that would be helpful. :) If you are a high school student, then I recommend working completely traditionally - colleges look askance at digital work, so I recommend focusing on your traditional drawing and painting skills. If you are beyond high school / college, then you are encouraged to work in the medium of your choice (though I still feel it is necessary to have a strong traditional foundation before moving on to digital).

Looking forward to seeing more of your work, and to following your improvement here.

Cheers,

-Rebeccak

[Heozart]

Rebeccak, thanks for your comments, I will try to shade along the contour with my next head drawing.

I am not a high school student, but more or less in that category. I graduated from college last year with a degree in music and in psychology, but I am preparing to go to an art school next year to study some kind of design. As for art training, I have been taking drawing lessons since January this year from this guy who really believes anyone can draw with proper training. He always sees the potential in me, and it has really helped counterbalance my more realistic assessment of my current skill level.

I started digital painting on my own initiative a couple of weeks ago after I saw what some people have done with it. :drool: I just bought a wacom tablet too so I really don't want to stop painting digitally altogether. I have lots of free time, so I would like to work both traditionally and digitally even if my portfolio has to consist entirely of traditional drawings.

Well, that's it for my short intro. I hope to have another head up soon.

[Talaria]

Heozart, Welcome! :bounce:

That's a very good face study! love the eyes.
Good luck with all those heads. :)

[NR43]

Hello Heozart

that first drawing looks very promising.. can't wait to see what's next :thumbsup:
I have lots of free time
wow...can I buy some of that :D

[Heozart]

I had fun with the second head today.

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m119/Heozart/Head2a.jpg
First with pencil. When I first saw the head I thought, "hey this one's going to be easy - so little to shade." I was so wrong, lol.

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m119/Heozart/Head2b.jpg
Next I tried with charcoal because smudging is too much fun. The 4B charcoal I used was very different from the one I am used to, and I had a hard time getting darker values out of it.

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m119/Heozart/head2c.jpg
As I was drawing I kept seeing :lightbulb: so I had to do this. Result of playing with different layer blending modes in photoshop.

Rebeccak, I have some questions. Could you show me some examples of shading? I tried to follow the contour, but I had trouble with some areas like the cheek where you could go many ways. Do you use straight lines or curves? Also, if you only shade in one direction, when do you use cross-hatching?


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I have lots of free time

wow...can I buy some of that :D
Sorry NR43, should have asked a couple of months ago when I was slacking and not drawing much at all. :p

[Rebeccak]

Originally posted by Heozart: Rebeccak, I have some questions. Could you show me some examples of shading? I tried to follow the contour, but I had trouble with some areas like the cheek where you could go many ways. Do you use straight lines or curves? Also, if you only shade in one direction, when do you use cross-hatching?
Heozart, check out the following Tutorials which we have on the forum:

TUTORIAL - General Principles of Anatomical and Figurative Art / Cross Hatching (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=374939)
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=374939

TUTORIAL SUMMARY - Anatomy Review 003 Shading Tutorial - Tutorial Material Only (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=351832)
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=351832

As well, I encourage you to look at works by Masters such as Rubens:

http://www.artnet.com/magazine/news/ntm4/Images/ntm6-1-1.jpg
http://www.artnet.com/magazine/news/ntm4/Images/ntm6-1-1.jpg

A great resource for Master Works is the Web Gallery of Art (http://www.wga.hu/). Definitely check it out! :)

Hope this helps, and hope to see more of your work.

Cheers,

-Rebeccak

[Heozart]

Thanks for those links, Rebeccak.
Over the last couple of weeks, I got started on some of the heads, but just couldn't get myself to keep working and finish them. Here is a WIP for heads 3:
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m119/Heozart/Head%20Workshop/Head3_WIP.jpg

I just started drawing horses. What marvelous creatures they are. I used images of horses I found on google as reference to practice.
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m119/Heozart/Animals/horse_practice1.jpg
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m119/Heozart/Animals/horse_practice2.jpg

[NR43]

Hey those horses are pretty good!

you know I'd love to see you do some of the torso's from the 2nd anatomy lesson...

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