Sketchbook Thread Of Ayenlou

[Rebeccak]

Hey, that was fast. :) Don't forget to do your homework. ;)

Cheers,

-R

[ayenlou]

Sooo I'm very fortunate enough to be taking a Life Drawings class with Rebecca and she's introduced me to this CG Society site and its awesome. But lately I realized I've been getting slower in my life drawings class so I wanted to practice more and speed it up. So here's a sketch I did last night. I believe I clocked this one in 15 minutes-ish. Also my scanner cut off the foot my bad :shrug:

(Oh and yes Rebecca I have not forgotten about the homework haha)

http://andy.cung.googlepages.com/sketch_001.jpg

[Rebeccak]

Hey Andy,

Great to see you take to the site, and great to see you trying some of the beginners' lounge gesture exercises!

I hope that you don't mind, I've taken the liberty of doing a quickie gesture from the same reference to point out some things. The key thing I think is that you need to think around the form (remember those spheres!) instead of just up and down the sides. Don't create an outline and a centerline so you end up just creating three columns for the torso, like this: I I I. For some reason, we all are terrified initially of drawing across the form - it takes bravery to cross to the other side! :) Just remember to think ACROSS the form. Think circles and spheres. Here's a little demo:

http://www.rebeccakimmel.com/gallery/albums/IVC%20Gestures/IVC-Gesture-001.jpg

Try working on another set of images and draw across the form. Hope it helps. :)

Cheers,

-R

[ayenlou]

No I don't mind at all. I'm always open for critique and tips :) But hmm... I'm trying to think and draw across the form but its hard. Its really frustrating to be honest :sad: Oh well I'll try again. I just finished another 2-5-15 Minute gesture which I'll post tomorrow morning. And I think Imma prolly try one more before I got to bed.

[Rebeccak]

Hey Andy,

Don't be discouraged. I think I mentioned that there is this saying about drawing, that it takes 10 years to learn, and 7 if you are a genius. I've been drawing for ages and I still struggle loads. :) The key to drawing is simply quantity, and there's no way around that. One exercise that we'll be doing in class fairly shortly is to analyze master drawings. For example I googled Rubens + drawing and come up with several results (http://images.google.com/images?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&q=rubens+%2B+drawing&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi). It can be really useful to take a piece of tracing paper, and to just find the basic, simple shapes, such as spheres and cylinders, in the master drawings by tracing them. Alternately you can just draw out the simple shapes in a sketchbook.

Here are some rather bad examples (http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b380/rebeccak5/Tracings/Trace_15.jpg) of what I mean from my student days. The key is not to spend much time on the outlines of the form, but to search out and draw the underlying, big shapes. Pretty much the goal is to find and draw the peanut shape. I might suggest trying one of these exercises using an image from the google search above or one of the beginners' lounge references and creating an analysis of simple shapes that is untimed.

Cheers,

-R

[ayenlou]

Wow for rather bad examples they're really nice but I see what you mean. I'll try that master trace next week I gotta finish this beginner's assigment first! haha. Oh yeah and congrats on your Otis position too Rebecca! :) Those kids are gonna be really lucky to have you as a teacher.

Anyhow here is my second sketch from a reference with the 2-5-15 Exercise...
(Now off to school to work on my self-portrait haha)

http://andy.cung.googlepages.com/sketch_002c.jpg
http://andy.cung.googlepages.com/sketch_002d.jpg

[ayenlou]

And here's a 15 minute gesture I did a lil while with the whole "drawing across the body" kept in my mind... Still not there yet but I'm slowly getting it :)

http://andy.cung.googlepages.com/sketch_003.jpg

[ayenlou]

And after viewing the picture side by side like that I realized a lot of mistakes I have in the picture hahaha

[Rebeccak]

Hey Andy, I really like that last one, and these show noticeable improvement! :) One suggestion is to always double check the angle of the centerline for the torso and the pelvis. Thanks for the congrats, that's very kind of you. Keep going with these, the more, the better. :)

[ayenlou]

Another new one! I did this Friday night...

http://andy.cung.googlepages.com/sketch_004.jpg
http://andy.cung.googlepages.com/sketch_004c.jpg

[ayenlou]

Doggone it... It still doesn't look like I'm drawing across the form! *blehhh* :shrug:

Oh well try again tonight!

[Rebeccak]

I like the way you've drawn the pelvis and legs in the last one of the set - that's starting to feel nice and volumetric. :)

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