Aah Johan, I am so sorry for the loss you’ve experienced.
Such loved ones will always be part of our lives; In the way they influenced our character, filled our memories with wonderful moments. My condolences and heart go out to you and your family.
ZOMBIES! where!!!
Ha. Good studies.
And the quik sketches…that’s what Im’ talking about. Nice analyzes of the volumes. The forshortened guy lying at the bottom is sweet. Nice line work.
Hi johan… had a look through your gestures - they really look great! 
Good to see and hear that you are back at school again;
wishing you an adventurous and exciting year in the world of art :wavey:
you are off to a good start already…
… so this end is just happily looking forward to your
updates
take care and cheers!
a.
HEY …Johan …
Just stopping by to see what you’ve been up to lately.
Pleasently surprized by all of those gestures…GREAT JOB ON THOSE…:applause: 
…Time for the next step…get Burne Hogarth’s DYNAMIC FIGURE DRAWING book, if you haven’t already that is…Fantastic sections in that book on FORSHORTENING, doing it correctly, and all of the princables that apply to it…One of the hardest lessons you will ever learn in figure drawing is forshortening,…but once you master it’s princables, your figures will be taken to the next,and HIGHER LEVEL.
You might also get a chunk of that new non drying clay or plastacine I think it is called…make your own cast of hands, feet, figures ect.
With that non drying stuff, you can make them over and over in different poses ect…Get used to working in 3d with that clay,…will really help train your mind to see better in 2d, and with your forshortening of the figure also…ANYWAY, that is just my two cents worth at the moment…
GOOD LUCK with your school by the way… …and it is GREAT to see such GREAT progress happening in your thread…KEEP GOING…YOUR FOR SURE ON THE RIGHT PATH
TAKE CARE
Glenn
Elnaz
thanks. lots of room for improvement still (as always 
)
Auria
Thankies! They actually took a lot more time than I wanted. It’s a matter of getting better at seeing to be able to analyse the human form in a certain pose faster…
rdsarna
thanks. yes ref’d… I’m an ubernoob if it comes to gestures. Maybe after the next 5000 I will accept my skill level easier hehe
Trunks
Thanks mate! good advise. Don’t be mad if I forget every now and then… I’m kinda slow blushes
Mu
I’m thinking if I take my time now and try to analyse the form (like vilppu advises) in terms of volume, it will be worth the efforts. Thanks
Gisaiagami
thanks. I’m guessing that you mean the vilppu gestures? You gotta see him sketch it’s really amazing and his approach seems logical in every way! If you can, get the dvd!
Cyanid
Thanks! Coming from you, that’s really appreciated (I’m a fan). The good thing is I realize I can get much better if I work really hard! The gestures are on these small sketchbooks at 19cm x 27cm and some on A4. I’m really amazed how others can get like 5 or more gestures on one sheet… When I draw that small it looks like my 6 year old daughter has drawn a human lol.
Annette
Thanks for that!
We’ll be focussing on anatomy this year, starting with the skeleton and muscles after that.
I really need more anatomy knowledge so it will do me good. Also getting art history now, which is a bit tough after having worked all day, but since I know nothing about art I really need these classes so looking forward to every one of them.
Hi Glenn,
thanks. I need to work hard on every aspect of drawing really.
The book I have read and made a summary, of which the first part I posted a while ago (still have to type out the rest of my notes, not sure if this ok though… don’t want to be violating any laws, as the book says nothing may be reproduced in any way)
So we started the skeleton studies with some skulls. While some at class did 2 or 3 studies, I prefer doing some quick ones the first hour to get into it and then do a longer study. It helps me getting in to it. There are some serious perspective issues here and there. I am aware and will have to try to think of that while I’m sketching (instead of afterwards).
Here’s some of the skulls:
All done on 27cmx36cm paper
And here’s a longer skull study.
It might look a bit weird because it is actually a real skull placed on a small piece of wood under an angle of about 40° Next time I will add an indication of the wood so the foreshortening is more obvious
And a rather quick head study (15 min or so)
Wanted to get as much info on paper with the least possible efforts
Quite happy about it coz for me it’s the most difficult head sculpture in classroom
Take care y’all
Hello Johan!
Long time since I’ve written anything here, though following everything what happens. Really enjoyed your last updates. If I remember correctly, aren’t you supposed to be doing fully finished studies at school now? Well, yeah, something like the skull in the latest update. By the way, I really like the shading there, even though I love cross-hatching with a harder pencil myself.
Now about head drawing, what really helped me is learning to see the forms and being able to model them. Good way to practise that is drawing hairy heads, hehe. From sculptures. You get the idea It’s just where you can see the mass of the hair and be able to divide it into planes. I must say it really helped me a lot, because when the head is really complex it makes it a lot easier. For example the one I’ve posted some time ago, which I did at the art school. The one where you can only see his eyes and nose, everything else is hair. Teacher were walking by (the sculpture stands in the corridor, that’s where I drew it) and almost all of them told me to divide everything into planes. As I remember that was a sculpture of Hercules.
Looking forward to seeing more stuff from you, Johan
Hi Johan!
You’ve got a really inspiring sketchbook.
I love the gestural sketches on the previous page. I assume they help a lot? The skull studies also look great!
Looking forward to more
Supria
Hi…Johan…
GREAT SKULL RENDERING … LOTS OF WORK ON THAT ONE…MAKES MY EYES SORE JUST THINKING ABOUT IT…
I don’t think that Burne Hogarth would mind you using his knowlage and book in any way that was helpful to yourself, and others…I know that for a fact, as a matter of fact… …I think he would love it…
REALLY looking forward to seeing more of your works, studies, and progress…
TAKE CARE
Glenn
razz
hi! thanks for posting
I don’t prefer hatching over other shading techniques… the main thing is each technique is done properly hehe.
I think plaster heads are a pain sometimes… too white. Some of the heads in our classroom have nearly no hair at all.
Anyway, I think I will be heading away from heads (lol) systematically this year, focussing on other body parts…
suprialal
Hi thanks. The gestures are great fun to do but for me not that easy. I really need to do many many more, combined with anatomy studies in order to improve my accuracy.
piccolabella
thanks. the rendered one took about 4-5hours over 2 days. The others less than 10 min (some less than 3min)
Magdalena
Thanks. I agree. I like my method of drawing some quickies for an hour or so and then go for a longer one… tends to allow me to get a feel of the basic forms of the subject before really getting into shading.
tizianoadmirer
thank you!
Glenn
thank you!
I’ve been slacking lately argh. Not feeling well at all as we speak (was sleeping in the couch all afternoon). Hopefully tomorrow those lil virusses are beaten
Here’s some stuff I found in one of my anatomy books when opening it. The last one was very WIP so I finished it just now.
Hey Johan, Very cool skull! I like the portrait of the head sculpture too. Maybe a little more work on his shading for more form because he has a really nice face. Nice bone studies.
Hi Johan, nice sketches you’ve been posting, that skull looks very nice.
Something i think would improve your work is to define better the outlines, you are using very thick pencil lines, and they are equal all around despite being in the shadow or not. You should use thiner and ligther lines in the more illuminated side.
Just some suggestions, keep up the good work.
cheers
Wow i love your sketches! Espesially the poses on page 49! Great stuff! Keep going, I can’t believe your sketch tread is this big! I hope to reach 50 pages too soon and you’re a great inspiration :D!
This bones’ study gots a lot of strokes-smoothness and I love it.
Can’t wait to see the other views
Hey Debbie
I might tackle that head sculpt again one of these days… although I’m gonna try and do more torso’s and other body parts if I can at school
Hi Luis
Thanks for dropping by and for the useful critique! Will try to watch my linework
Hello luckydesign
Thanks. It’s indeed getting a bit big. I was thinking of maybe closing this one and starting a new one. This way I could save up webspace too and publish only the works of which I’m really happy about. Not sure though because a big thread is actually what everyone should have… practice makes perfect and as you can see I will need many many more pages hehe.
Hi Serena
thanks. I quite love drawing bones really, while others may seem it is rather boring, I think they are fascinating things. I’m learning much about form with bones as well…
Here’s some of this weeks school work
quick ribcage sketches: as you can see, Oscar - our class’ skeleton - is in a really poor condition…
And a quick line sketch (5 min or so)
A longer study of about 90 minutes:
I liked the light on this statue but now that I look back at the drawing I wish I had pushed it even further
OH WOW!
I’ve so fallen in love with your quick line sketch of the torso…its really ummmm…flawless!
The rib csge studies are gr8…and the longer study of torso is good too but darker tones would have helped to emphasize the lighting…
GREAT WORK Looks like school is working gr8 for you…
Wow NR!.. you’ve got a great sb here. Gorgeous drawings of the children & baby. And love the last version of the skull, really nice contrast. Nice shoulder & bone studies, also I liked your gesture drawings. Took a while to get through all the pages here, but it was an interesting journey, so far.