Anatomy Thread of .: Mr. Mu :.

#741

HEY MR MU…:slight_smile:

You might try putting some oposing curves into that tonque… will add to it’s flickering movement…THINK FLAME.:slight_smile:
TAKE CARE
Glenn

#742

Yarabe,

no idea about the colours right now. Anymore.

:smiley:

Glenn,
ah! That’s a good hint. I was wondering about the tongue. My ref photos look particularly straight.

#743

HEY MR MU…:slight_smile:
For tonque reference, you might also want to check out some of the Monitor lizards…Komodo Dragon maybe… Their tonques are the same shape as a snake, except much longer, so you might be able to find a better view of a flickering tonque if you do a search for them.
I have a baby Ball Python…I’ve had him for about three years now…He was a foot long and as wide as a pencil when I got him, …Now he is five feet long and as wide as my forarm…A super strong snake…I watch my hand turn red when he tightens up his grip when he’s coiled around my arm…He’s pretty mild mannered though, never tries to bite, except when I throw a rat into his lair…then he springs into stalk and attack mode, and I do mean spring…he’s as fast as lightning when he strikes and coils around the rat, who never knew what hit him, or what…The rat stops breathing in less than thirty seconds. and then it’s down the hatch time… I call him MERLIN…:smiley:
He has extrordinaryly BEAUTIFUL colors and markings…Golds, coppers, browns, blacks,whites, and even blues when he’s placed in the shunshine…especally right after he sheds his old skin, and his new skin is still moist…those colors just vibrate and shimmer all over the place as he moves.
That’s the reason I got him in the first place…I thought he would make a great model to work from and for doing color studies, opossing curves in motion studies.ect…:slight_smile:
They live for about twenty years, so i’ll have lots of time to study him, his colors, and motions ect…LOL :smiley:
Anyway,MR MU… Good Luck on your search for reference, and on your painting…I’m looking forward to seeing it’s progress…:thumbsup: :slight_smile:
TAKE CARE
Glenn

#744

Thanks for that little story about Merlin, man. That was quite a nice read. Snakes are fascinating - I remember I was so surprised how warm and soft they felt when I first touched a python.
The venomous ones scare the shit out of me, though…:smiley:

I did these today to test how the first structural studies of my hogarth book feel when applying them to faces from imagination. Feels nice. Was fun. I got no idea what happened to those ears, though, :scream:

#745

First one is really nice Mu!

I was thinking of your approach for the workshop and did a similar thing.
Started sketching my own head and then took one of the poses from these thumbs I had made and painted my head accordingly. Then I started deforming myself, LOL that was fun! (too early to post yet, as I’ve already used up 2 posts I can’t post before my grayscale image is done)

So thanks for the inspiration :smiley:

#746

You’re welcome…:scream: Looking forward to seeing you deformed…:smiley:

#747

two more heads from imagination

#748

wow the first head looks really angry! I like the colors you used they create a spooky mood.

#749

hi yarabe,

thanks for watching…:slight_smile:

more structural exercises from the Hogarth book.

#750

another Hogarth structure study:

#751

Nice work sir!

#752

Thanks Johan!

I had my problems with the mechanical pencil. While it stays sharp in theory it quickly becomes wedged at the tip when doing a lot of shading and then when you try to use the edge of the tip it slips back into the plane you have been using it in before which makes getting a thin line down on the paper hard.

Enter this tool:
http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/003411.php

Previously, I thought this must be the most superfluous innovation ever. But since today I consider getting one…

(btw, cool tools is a great website, I check it out almost daily).

#753

preliminary “semi-final” pic of the self portrait as creature OFDW:

click for lager version without so many artefacts and all:

#754

Cool pencil… I wonder though… these leads go pretty fast if you use this kind of pencil for shading… when they are being shaprened they’ll go even faster.
Also, I kinda like it that they become wedged because it allows for smoother shading.

But you’re right, if you want really sharp lines, nothing beats a normal pencil, sharpened with a cutter knife.

About your IFW entry, I think the bridge of the nose can use some highlights.
The scales could use more volume I think, they appear kinda flat.

I like the dark mood you’ve created in this piece

#755

Hey Johan,

I realized the pencil is sold out, anyway…o.0

I am working with both a wooden and a mechanical pencil right now.

Alenah did a paintover which I will use as a guide for taking my entry one step further (hopefully to “final”)

more Hogarth:

#756

the final final entry…:smiley:

value correction on the left eye and texture added:

#757

nice work Mr Mu :thumbsup: maybe you should have pushed te colors more… But that’s probably a personal feeling :wink: Anyway it’s turned out great!

#758

Hey Mu
Thatsssssssa nicccce painting you made
Congratsssssss!

#759

… yes Mu, nice :slight_smile:
and the texture gave it even stronger impact, good job!

#760

yarabe- thank you! I am too insecure in the use of colours, because I mainly did greyscale these last years. I am only slowly growing into hue and saturation…:smiley:

Johan- Didn’t know you were a parselmouth…:scream:

alenah- thanks so much again for your time and help!

just relaxing a bit… don’t know where the horizontal lines are from, btw… sorry