Is this any better Rebeccak? Also, do you have any tips for using a tablet? I have an Intuos 3 (4x5) and it is very different from drawing on paper. I find it often difficult to get the curves I want without making a million short strokes. Thanks again, this is a great thread.
darkdarkroom,
No problem! I know the forum is big and can be intimidating, so you are welcome to post wherever you feel the most comfortable. 
shrey,
Welcome back! Good to see your Anatomy Thread up.
Lempface,
I do think this is better! Getting used to a tablet just takes time and a bit of practice. One exercise I’ve heard that people do to get used to the feeling is to just do several practice sessions drawing various lines, circles, cubes / boxes, etc. to just sort of generically practice linework. It can help you loosen up and get used to the decidedly different feeling of the tablet.
Cheers,
~Rebeccak
[left]2dartist,
Your Hogarth studies are coming along really well, it’s always good to see these. I hope you don’t mind, I did a paintover which I think shows how you might try to tidy the perspective of the forms:
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[left]Keep up the good work!
Cheers,
~Rebeccak
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As you can see I still need some practice on gestures. But, I’m really likin’ the 2-5-10 format.
Feel free to C&C , paint-over , etc.
Radical_Seifer,
Nice job on these! Here is a paintover which I hope demonstrates a methodical way of going about putting together your gesture drawing:
Reference:
[left]Cheers,
~Rebeccak
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rebecca,
I don’t mind at all Your advice is always appreciated. The paintovers you do definitely help me in understanding were i can improve certain aspects of a drawing. Anyway back to do some more sketches…until the next time
Rebeccak:
Thanks alot! much appreciated. I need all the help I can with my gestures. Unfortunately being mostly self-taught, I picked up alot of bad habbits and poor technique. Only now am I learning how to draw proper gestures 
BTW, Thank you very much for choosing my painting in the SPOTLIGHT section. You truly made my day.
Here’s one from me again. Rebecca, do you think I could start posting these in an anatomy/sketch-thread of my own? I feel like I’m cluttering this one with my sketches since I’m not sticking to the exercises exactly:).
[left]Edit: BTW, thank you for putting me in the finished gallery of OFDW016! I wasn’t even finished, so I’m honoured:)[/left]
Just working on some bridgeman hand studies. Love the way he draws hands, he makes it look so simple.
thats it for now.
2dartist,
That’s great. You’re Bridgeman studies are looking fantastic! Keep doing studies such as these ~ Bridgeman is great for simplifying forms into interesting shapes. Nice work!
Radical_Seifer,
You’re welcome! Glad that you found your SPOTLIGHT thread…I’m always happy to showcase good work.
Maladie,
I like the sense of the pose you’ve captured here ~ I’ve done a paintover which hopefully demonstrates that it’s always best to draw the figure as though unclothed, in a simplifed, gestural fashion, prior to adding clothes overtop:
[left]Cheers,
~Rebeccak
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hi 2dartist… i loved ur studies…
i was lookin through some of frank frazetta’s studies… and was thinkin of doing a similar hand study… will post in the beginner’s lounge
Hi there!
Haven’t had much time to check the forum but I see some pretty good works around!!
Here is my little contribution, it’s not a study, maybe it’s the closest thing to a finished painting I have done so far, everything in Painter IX. Hope you like it.
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Azabache
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Hi, this is my first time posting a sketch. These are heads from page 10 of Dynamic Figure Drawing by Burne Hogarth. I did these without doing any erasing since I didn’t have one nearby, not sure if that was a good practice or anything but thought I should mention it. The scan kind of brightened the image and you can’t see all my construction lines so this actually looks a bit cleaner than the original. The numbers in the sketch are just the order I drew the heads.
I don’t think my shading is very good, I think I tried to copy too much rather than do my own shading. Also, I think I am drawing too hard and using my wrist too much cause my wrist was sore after I finished.
I wasn’t sure if it was ok to post the reference since it’s from a book but you can find the image here if you go to the search inside book link.
Here is my sketch:
Any comments are appreciated. I haven’t drawn much in years so I can use any advice you may have.
Thanks for looking.
was just curious…are the sketches we post in here things you do from your head, or can you use referance? and are they supposed to be like…finished anatomical pieces or just studies?
Hi gnoway,
Welcome aboard! I have done studies just like these from Hogarth’s books, and I think they are a great way to really get a solid understanding of the human head in an efficient manner. I think it’s great that you’ve done these without erasing, it really forces you to concentrate and to hone your observational skills as well.
I look forward to seeing more of your work here!
Cheers,
~Rebeccak
MrsB,
Hi there, welcome aboard.
was just curious…are the sketches we post in here things you do from your head, or can you use referance? and are they supposed to be like…finished anatomical pieces or just studies?
You are welcome to post any type of work you wish here ~ it might be nice to see a few of your pieces which you have done previously or are working on currently so that I can get a sense of where you are coming from. Studies or finished pieces are both welcome.
I really encourage beginners to try the Exercises linked in the first post of the thread you are currently in:
1st post of the Beginners’ Lounge, containing Gesture Exercises
There are additionally resources for beginners to be found in the second post here:
2nd post of the Beginners’ Lounge, containing Resources
Looking forward to seeing your work!
Cheers,
~Rebeccak
thanks heaps for the welcome. i havnet got all my work on the pc yet…chasing my nearly 1yr old daughter and being 8 months pregnant with no.2 sort of limits my time. but here are a few pieces. one is my very first digital painting which i was so proud of initially, but now i just feel like i cheated myself. (i sketched over the top of a stock image then painted it looking at the pic, but not painting over it…does that make sense?) the other is just a sketch i have on the pc. not my best stiff, but it will have to do for the moment.
shrey - thanks for the kind words, look forward to seeing your studies.
Managed a few more sketches, thought things were getting easier but it looks like I overestimated my progress. It feels as though i’ve hit a wall, I’m struggling to put into practice some of the concepts hogarth and bridgman explain in there books.
I can’t draw well without reference plain and simple, the drawings tend to look really bad. Thats enough whinning from me today.
hogarth - Dynamic hands…pretty bad sketches
20min portrait - photo ref used, will keep redoing this until i get the likeness right.
Timed Bridgman studies
hogarth study, thought about something Dr Bone mention in Fl3wk’s anatomy thread about not concentraiting on rendering too much and trying to learn what you are trying to draw. That’s how I approached this study.
Hey there,
I am back…
Just so you know I have not been lazy while gnawing on my challenge piece (which I cancelled - it was unfinishable for me at my stage, so back to learning…yay!)
these are all either pencil or charcoal.
Some are just doodles I happened to like. Reasons given directly above the sketch…
anatomy partly wrong, but I liked it because something good happened to my edges here…
Moreover, I recently discovered a nice opportunity for real live reference gestural sketches: teh playground. Whenever the weather is half decent we (family and neighbours/friends) spend hours each day on the playground and I decided I might just as well sketch a little there.
After I finally endured the awkward arty-farty feeling of bringing my sketchbook to the playground I must say it was really fun. The following sketches are sorted chronologically decending (latest first) to demonstrate what I concluded: I was getting better doing these quick live sketches… (while the good weather lasted, hope the summer will be back soon)
As to a little “trick” I tried when doing these sketches:
Apart from teh sitting folks, everyone moved rather quickly, especially the kids. In order to catch the pose I took a mental photo of them…
I don’t know if you do that, too, but if you watch people and then quickly close your eyes you sort of get a snapshot of the last thing you saw.
I sketched that and then referred for clothing or hair details to the live person againg as the actual pose is not important for that.
