Anatomy Thread of raptor|3D

#81

Hi Lyneran!
Yeah ~ like you said it´s great reference for studies and anatomy rather than how-to book.
I have only this book, although I plan on extending my library. I think I lack some skills concerning gesture and others, so it might be wise to add other books.
I´m curious too which books do you practice from? Because I noticed that you are pretty cool at drawing from imagination ~ without reference (refered to your thread) and that is something I dare not to yet. Do you have some advice how to start drawing from imagination? Which books would you recommend?

BTW ~ it´s great you will be posting studies from Anatomy for the Artist. I´m really looking forward to them!

btw, your pencil studies are nice. that skeleton study must have taken a lot of patience. hope to see more :slight_smile:

Thanx! I´m really glad someone likes my studies. :) yeah, but they were even harder "patience-studies" like this one: [http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b150/raptor3D/22-11-05resampled.jpg](http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b150/raptor3D/22-11-05resampled.jpg) (after this kind of studies one get used to it I would say :D), but the annoying thing on this skeleton was that I had to sharp this chalk pencil literally every minute.

see ya …

I hope you understand everything, I´m not that good at English … I need more pracice :slight_smile:

#82

Hi men nice to sou you around lol :slight_smile:

heh true true :slight_smile: I have been studying anatomy quite a lot lately … as you say lots of papers everywhere and my tables are full of open books lol … at least 6 open anatomy books on the table is must :smiley: … hmm but I have been producing a lots of sketchy stuff lately - rather practical drawings so nothing interesting to post.

Hmm but anyway keep practising :slight_smile:

  • Slux
#83

What did I tell you Rebecca? :smiley:
Hey man, Rebecca almost thought you´ve given up, am I right? :smiley:
Good to hear you´re working like crazy. Good luck with your kick-ass anatomy study. I think starting with this skeleton drawing I started some more serious anatomy study too. I actually mix it with more detailed renderings, sketches, landscapes and… Maya :).

#84

slux? give up? hah! no way! :slight_smile:

i started out with Loomis’ books, and recently got my hands on simblet’s anatomy for the artist. yesterday i got burne hogarth’s dynamic anatomy, robert beverly hale’s drawing lessons from the great masters, and anthony ryder’s complete guide to figure drawing, so i haven’t practiced from those yet.

i’m still pretty much starting out & finding stuff that works for me too, so this is just advice from one learner to another. check out the books sticky in the main anatomy forum, that’s what i consult before buying. i guess the best advice i can give you is observe a lot, and draw a lot. books are great but they won’t do anything for you if you read & read but not practice. same goes for just copying but not analyzing. like slux said, what’s in your mind is more important than what’s on paper.

don’t feel pressured to draw well from imagination, with time & effort for sure you’ll get there. if you can take life drawing classes, that would help a lot. i myself can’t afford life drawing classes, so i make do with observing people while i’m out and about (situation is never a handicap if you really want to learn). i also stare at my siblings till they’re really annoyed & ready to kill me (that alone makes it worth it really :D) i would suggest drawing from imagination after some studying from reference. learn from fellow learners then learn from the masters. anatomy studies then some gestures. long renders then quick ones. just throw it all in the mix really. keeps you from feeling stuck or slow, and keeps you from getting bored.

your pencil studies are really nice, just keep them coming. without a doubt you’ll get there. i’m looking forward to seeing more stuff from you. :thumbsup:

-Lye-

#85

Thanks a lot for advice and encouragement Lye. :slight_smile:
I think you really make fast progress. Can´t wait to see what you will come up with say after one year.

As for the drawing classes, I have been attending evening class every Wednesday ~ nowadays I take the chance and try to learn landscape painting here though, cause oils are free there but more importantly I don´t have some room at home where I could paint yet, so I use the studio there too. I´ve just started to love landscape painting. I have already finished my first picture but I just somehow have got to throw it into the computer to upload it here. Hopefully soon. So if you are interested stay tuned :slight_smile: .
Tomorrow I´ll upload at least some landscape concept art I printed there last time.

see ya … :slight_smile:

Rebecca: thanks for the link to G. Helnwein´s site you´ve posted on Lye´s thread today. Amazing artist.

#86

If you haven’t already, you should totally join the Challenge!

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/journey_begins/enter.php

Cheers, :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#87

You have quite sense of humor. :slight_smile:

#88

Wha??? :slight_smile: I’m not laughing… :wink:

#89

but I am … :slight_smile:

#90

Ok, now with your comment, I am laughing. :wink:

#91

Rebecca:

Apart from that I am not really skilled enough at art yet, even if I entered I don´t think traditional media-only are allowed for this challenge and I work in traditional media. Even if they allowed traditional media, I can only paint with oils/acrylics every Wednesday at art course and in addition I cannot capture whole process of painting because I have no digital camera.
Thanks for letting me know tho.

Good luck with your image! I´ll be watching your entry. :slight_smile:

Here are some last concepts I created at the art course. First I drew the concept, than I deposited the lacquer layer. Than I inscribed the linework using needle, added two printing colors and smudged them using fingers, piece of nylons served for drying = lighting some areas. Than I printed that using presser. I repeated whole process of colouring the concept several times. Finally I colored the negative without consecutive printing and let dry. I don´t know how this technique is called in English, here it is called “dry needle” and the negative is probably rather metal. But you can use paper with layer of lacquer as well.


^ colored negative

and some prints:

#92

raptor|3D,

Are you familiar with the artist Kathe Kollwitz? She was an amazing printmaker / draughtsman who did some amazing figurative work / highly expressive ~ definitely check her work out. :slight_smile: I think you could do some beautiful work this way ~ either painting or drawing.

Cheers, :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#93

You have some really beautiful studies in here raptor. I love it how you mention that a quick sketch turned into hours of rendering. I know that feeling!:smiley:

#94

Hi erilaz,
thank you very much! I guess I am not able to draw nice quick sketch that looks artistic. I am working on it tho.

You have some really great images in your thread, keep up the great work.

see ya …

Rebecca: I think I have heard of her. Really interesting artworks. Maybe I´ll try some figurative prints. How is challenge going? I have to check your entry again ~ pretty much spam in there flooding your great artworks :).

see ya …

#95

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^ quick sketch. I used mainly chalk. Informations from Rebecca´s great tutorials - Gesture and Opposing Curves helped me a lot on this piece. A photo from photography/video magazine served as reference.

#96

Lovely piece, and great to see new work from you! :slight_smile: There is so much mood and expression in your works which I really love. I’m happy you’ve liked the tutorials. It’s great to hear they’re still useful. :slight_smile:

Cheers,

~Rebeccak

#97

Wow, thanks a lot Rebecca for the kind words. :slight_smile:

I’m happy you’ve liked the tutorials. It’s great to hear they’re still useful. :slight_smile:

Sure, they are really useful. Can´t wait for next.

#98

Nice lighting on that last one. I agree with Rebecca: great mood and expression. :thumbsup:

Only niggle is that her ass looks overly flattened; is she sitting in shallow water?

#99

Thanks LoTekK! I would show you original photo but I guess it has copyright. She´s sitting on some cloth.

#100

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^ OK, here is the landscape as promised. It´s my first oil painting - originally started as a first step in learning matte painting. I would like to fully dive into MP soon. Reference photo of some place in Hawai from calendar was used. I tried to capture quite big portion of details which of course led to spending quite big amount of time on this piece. But I couldn´t resist - I just like details ; ). But the real challenge was to capture the textures of the ground and the illuminated smoke.