Anatomy Thread of .: Mr. Mu :.

#881

This, if I am not mistaken, is a Brian Froud mastercopy. The artist is not mentioned, but it looks like a Froud and he contributed drawings to the book I got it from.

I was amazed at the details he put into the hair and especially the many many curves he put on everything. It made the whole figure so believable and detailed!
So, I tried to take these things I noticed about the original (many small opposing curves, detail, elaborate hair) and apply those to a creature I designed from scratch (with horns and hide to match some of the characteristics of the Froud creature). Here is what I came up with.

The usual structural issues due to lack of reference (hrm, hum), but I like the details…:smiley:

cya
Mu

#882

Hey Mu
I can see you’ve been busy :slight_smile:

So now you design characters as well eh?
I guess anything is possible when imagination is the source.
Awesome update and it’s great to hear your career as an artist is going well!

#883

Hey Mu! Wassup? Nice drawings. Enjoyed your music… :slight_smile:

#884

:wavey: HEY MR MU…:slight_smile:

I really like thoe drawings you did of people in Germany during the 1920’s…Great technique used with Great results…Amazing how something in a subject that moves you emotionaly, can capture that particular and deep emotion that is in you regarding the subject, and then can extend and convey itself into your work…That is what drawing, music,poetry,writing and art is all about, and it looks like you have achieved what it is all about in those drawings, your music,poetry, and writing…So stay on the path you are on…it’s the right one for sure…:applause: :thumbsup: :arteest:

TAKE CARE MR MU…:slight_smile:
Glenn and Jessica

#885

Hey folks,

thanks for the feedback.

Johan -

So now you design characters as well eh?

Ah man, that sounds as if I was actually good at it… But I do indeed have to practise it if I want to be able to come up with believable characters for a comic one day.

Anand - great you enjoyed the music! I’ll throw in a few updates here and there… thanks for the feedback.

Glenn - it was great to talk to you again. And yes, that is basically what art is about. Convey some of the feelings you have. A bit like a combination of hypnosis and telepathy… :smiley:

#886

Hey there Mr. Mu!

At first I was strolling through the last page of your thread and was thinking… why the traditional stuff here. Then I read on. I agree that getting the ol’ pencil and paper out is like talking to an old friend. It is also like riding a bike. It is hard to get going again but after a while you remember how to do it.

I know how it is about the comic too. I so dearly want to get mine started but I have a hard time doing just that and then staying motavated enough to keep it going.

Keep up the thoughts though and keep posting. I find that motavating enough… especially when people post C&C’s!

Later!

#887

Hi aggie,

thanks for your thoughts. Interesting to hear about your comic, man. Let’s see a few concepts or something!

just colouring this guy:

#888

I like how you changes his look towards the viewer!

#889

Okay, you inspired me to start a thread here that has only my graphic novel. This may help keep me working towards a goal.

Thanks Mr. Mu!

#890

Hi there…so much stuff to see…i really liked the last post.
I like the way you have made ur plan and good to see that you are actually working on it…
Good luck !

#891

Hey aggie - that’s great news! After all, that’s what these forums are here for. Publish your WIPs and get motivation and hints from other folks. The link does not work for me though… typo?

Shyam: I wish I could stick to the plan more properly, but alas! I had to give other stuff higher priority. I am going at a much slower pace by now than in the early days…

something not related to drawing:
I picked up this strange root in the garden yesterday which made clicking and hissing sounds. I got a bit scared and put it on the garden table to look it up in a botanical encyclopedia, but when I got back it was gone. Maybe the cat got it or something. So I drew it from memory. Does anyone know the species? I think it might be a Inspirationata Froudiensis, but who knows… :smiley:

#892

LoL
And well drawn too!

#893

Now that is funny…

Rebekka combined my two threads together, so it is under Aggie93 Starting Anew. I think I fixed my link on my signature too! Here is the link to the thread.

#894

cool creatures design Mu! keep it up

#895

hehe, thanks Johan. I messed up on the nose alignment (or I should have shaved one eyebrow), but alas!

aggie - checking it out now!

Cisc0 thanks a lot!

colouring the little earthy guy:

#896

I just did an interesting thing: I flipped through every page of this thread (and repaired a few broken image links along the way).
I feel really grateful, now. Thanks to you all. I learned so much from from you and your passion and dedication.

I will do a few lizard studies, because I want to do an illustration of one of my favourite dragon scenes in fantasy literature.
I need a way to make it as detailed as possible (which is the main thing I learned from the Fround mastercopy: details into everything!) without overdoing it on the whole thing.

#897

I really like it. Cool textures on the skin. Good work for your illustration

#898

nice style…

#899

Cisc0 and dscavenger: thanks a lot for your feedback!

another one for preparation: (click for slightly higher res)

I learned a lot about how to plan and execute scales on a given form without being intimidated by its complexity.
I’ll do thumbnails next and I also decided to follow James Gurney’s advice on how to paint things you actually don’t have a reference for: do a maquette. Especially since I want to do the dragon in a night scene lit by its fire only I need to have a solid idea of what it looks like.

If I succeed with that illustration I will consider that a starting point for doing character concepts for a comic project I have in mind. I don’t know why actually, but with the last three or four drawings I am much happier than with most of the stuff I did over the last year.

More soon.

#900

Oh Mr. Mu, I sure wish you would go ahead and start you comic. I need to see how you are going to get yours off the ground. Well, I posted my first two pages… in word form… on the Allu Blog. Check it out!