Sketchbook and Anatomy Thread of Tom Clive

#41

Oh and here’s the other skull study as mentioned before after Giovanni Civardi.

#42

Hey Tom the last two look beautiful!

I really like the pastel drawing.
Try experimenting with rubbing the pastel over the paper for the background.
The hard white lines are a bit distracting, other than that, great work.
The composition is lovely and pretty solid too.

More please! :smiley:

#43

nice man…liked the style of the sketch and also the pastels…

#44

Thanks for the encouraging replies guys. It always puts me in the mood to do more when you try something different and people seem to like it.

Oh and by the way this is an old clay sculpt I did of a cow which is a couple of feet or so long. I think you can see how even though the proportions are exaggerated learning the internal anatomy helped me find the shapes !

#45

hey Tom, the pastel drawing is beautiful and so powerful! And I still live your lines in your drawings. Cool work with the cow, the wrong proportions make she looks like a cartoon; funny^^.

#46

pretty nice cow!

#47

Cheers guys and here’s a sketch I’ve just been working on this evening of a Lion’s Skull. I got caught up a little in the detail and so maybe it’s a little confusing when you look at it as a whole but I found the shapes really interesting and the similarities with a human skull really popped out at me.

#48

Nice one Tom.
Could use some darker values though to make the forms more “readable”

#49

Another one too big for the scanner so I’ve scanned the area I like. I might try pushing the values a little further on this one but quite like some of the shapes.

Charcoal with white chalk for the highlights. I’m trying to escape from the cross hatching as even though I like it - some of my stuff was starting to look the same…

#50

hi, like the shapes and direction but the white highlights look slight odd to me…

#51

Cheers dscavenger. I worked on that one a little more but it’s still missing something. I’ll take a photo and stick the whole thing up.

Have just been playing around with the 30 day demo of ZBrush. http://www.pixologic.com/zbrush/trial/I haven’t really tried it since the first versions and it’s a lot easier to use now. A totally different workflow to traditional digital modelling. Having said that next time I might make a base mesh and work from that.

I was just having a go at sculpting a generic face from a sphere and it started looking like Spock so I just went with it. I’ve added the broad shapes but haven’t added details. Eyes are a bit tough but I’ll work something out. Maybe I’ve stretched the polys around the eyes a bit much but I guess this will even out after I subdivide a level or two more.

Think I’ll go for Spock Prime from the recent Star Trek movie so guess I’ll have to dig in with those wrinkles and make his eyes quite hollow.

#52

Quick pastel sketch from Sunday. The colours look better on the actual piece and it’s bigger than usual but maybe I should have gone even bigger. It was okay to start with but I found it hard to get in details with pastel.

#53

Oh and here’s a quick charcoal sketch !

#54

Nice life drawings!

My favourite way to use charcoal on large surfaces is to use thick vines.
Not the usual 0.5cm ones, but around 1cm diameter at least. I then break off a small piece of about 3cm tall and use it on the sides. This way a few flat surfaces on the vine are created, while maintaining sharp edges in case some thin lines are required.
Perhaps worth a try :slight_smile:

Also, for adding shaded areas, I usy my fingers to spread the charcoal. In the beginning, there’s some charcoal going to stick to your fingers, which makes the shades lighter than intended. Then I just add new charcoal on the paper and “smudge” again. Important is not to clean your hands until you are finished, because when you do, you will get undesired effects because of your finger will not have any charcoal anymore on it. It’s a great technique to build up a figure without being all too dependant on linework, especially on toned paper. To make toned paper I use bistre and a rag and just wipe it on the white paper. It’s a lot cheaper than buying toned paper and it actually looks nicer too, because there’s a more random texture on the paper this way.

I’ve been experimenting with this technique at the academy for a while now and the results are getting quite pleasing. (I’ll post my work done with this technique in june, once I get the drawings back from the jury.)

Looking forward to see more life drawings from you!

#55

I had a go at a quick oil sketch from life made the other day. Am fairly pleased with the likenesss although would have liked to add a little more to it. Maybe I’ll have a play around and see if I can improve it.

#56

Really dig this one man, beautifull :arteest:

#57

Thanks Nicolas !

Here’s the full pic. Scanned and stitched together. Looking at it now I think maybe I should have sketched in his surroundings and his reflection in the mirror he was leaning against.

It flattened a bit when I fixed this but that’s something that happens I suppose !

#58

Here’s another pencil sketch. Fairly heavy on the lines but I think the shapes/proportions are okay.

#59

Another quick oil study. This is Michael again who was in some of my earlier drawings.

#60

Hi. For the pencil sketch I feel the head is a little bit too big. What rule do you use for the human body length - 8 heads or 7 heads and half?