It’s a great book and his technique is easier to learn (imho) than others. The great thing about it is that one can practice this technique even when he has just a couple of min to spare (like I’m currently doing while being at the office, having to wait a bit while our systems run reports etc. (my office notes are often loaded with loomis heads these days, along with other scribbles, much to my bosses ennoyance :blushes:
Anyway,
have fun!
It’s been about year to a year and a half since I’ve been in a life drawing class. I forgot how 10 and 15 minute poses felt like haha 
I walked in last half of the class so I didn’t get much. It was good, even saw some friends there. Always good to see my old life drawing teacher.
the top of that last mecha is looking really nice, i think maybe
slimming the legs down and putting just a bit of curve into them would help de-stiffen the pose. I don’t know whether you’d be able to see any online, but some of the newer marvel tv shows… evolution i think it was called, had some lovely drawings in the end credits that made me think about what you could get away with in terms of the curve of legs… I wish I could find the reference for you. Maybe try having a look for some marvel characters online, or get a hold of the ‘drawing comics the marvel way’ if you can, they put a lot of emphasis on the looseness and expression of even still drawings like that one. Whew, novel length post!
Hey there, just stopping by to see if you had seen this:
227 Anatomy Videos - 43 Hours
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=177&t=456011
Seems like a deal at $25 for 5 DVDs, I might get this myself for that cost…
Cheers!
I have seen those, just haven’t put the time to watch through them.
Top two I looked at Loomis, middle are from my head, bottom are caricatures of people I saw while waiting for my pizza.
Doing this made me want to start my study of Alphonse Mucha. Which would be this one.
Oh yeah, something I kind of thought was cool of Loomis to say was “Now let’s get to work in earnest”. You don’t hear anyone talking that way anymore. It has that good old fashion feel to it… Well I thought it was a nice phrase.
Gee, I hope this doesn’t count as nudity in Photobucket.
I’m kinda surprised I can get this kind of shading with a .5 mechanical pencil. I haven’t seen it really done, but what if I drew the model as a skeleton? Hmmm…
lol the skeleton is even extremely nude :Dnice perspective, although I think for the female it’s a bit overdone.
Loomis is right, it does take a lot of practice…
Didn’t have a good view at the bookstore, so I just drew some from magazines. Some good, some obviously bad 
and Loomis…
Hot off the life drawing class…
After the first one I realized I don’t really know how to draw the bones, only an approximation. I think I’ll practice on that a bit.
wow that looks like a great exercise!
too bad I’m only drawing plaster statues (mainly heads) in class
aah wth only 1,5 years to wait for my turn 
Great set of studies from your life drawing class - very dynamic, I particularly think the last one works well because the drawing has an area of focus but the whole drawing is active. Nice work.
Uuh, bony. Nice fast stuff, no doubt. Looking forward to more of those, must be fun to do. Seeing through the model, haha.
I like those skeleton drawings. Life drawing class must be fun I kinda miss it myself, nothing like learning from a real model.
The guy in the top hat is cool looking character too
you’re really improving - those last 15 minute skeleton studies are great! It seems your life drawing classes are really paying off and you’re definitely putting the effort in. I look forward to seeing you progress more in future updates!
Looking cool man, I love those skeleton speedies, especially the sitting one, it gots lots of feeling to it.
Wow everyone, thanks for all the responses
razz: Yeah it’s fun, sometimes I feel like I’m Superman with X-ray vision hahaha! I don’t think I should tell my friends I can see their bones, muscles, or through their clothes. 
I’ve been looking through this book for some of my bone studies. I’ll look at some from Anatomy for the Artist because it has some photos.
One detailed, and 3 quick ones.
Need to figure out how that clavicle works with the scapula. I know it connects with the acromion process, that thing sticking farthest out from the scapula. Well this isn’t called a study for nothing
SirRon, and it’s very great, knowing bones is as important as knowing muscles. What I think sucks about anatomy books is that there’s so many of them and it’s hard to choose the one that is really great. Yeah, there’s some well known and good books by Bridgman, Hogarth, Loomis, some everyone knows, but again chooses between these because as they are about the same subject, they’re very different too.
Some decisions to make before seriously studying one or two of those complete guides for artists…
Ok, I don’t want to go philosphing here really
NR43: Yeah, sometimes I don’t like it either. The ‘schematic drawings’ don’t read that well to me. But the other drawings are great. I actually prefer this one but it’s heavy and a hardcover so it’s not easy to carry around.
razz: I think the best way to study bones is to actually have a skeleton instead of a book Unfortunately I don’t have the money to do that heh.
I’ll try to do some 3/4 views now that I have a feeling for the orthographic views.
