Sketchbook Thread of Joshua Townsend

#101

anandpg - Thanks for the encouragement :slight_smile: .


Burne Hogarth

#102


Burne Hogarth

#103

Hey man

great to see your hard work!
the drawing of the young boy is really great too!

#104

Oh I love the depth you created with that portrait.

#105

NR43, kSeth - Thanks to both of you.

Nothing special. I’m just trying to learn the great muscle masses.


Burne Hogarth

#106

just remember that Hogarth’s edu drawings are highly exaggerated to show what is where.
i stronlgy advise o compare his drawings with those from other books.
My favouite anatomy book is “Anatomy for the Artist” by Jenö Barcsay

#107

Listen to NR about Hogarth. Don’t get used to the stylised stuff of Hogarth. Well, NR told about it. Now something I would suggest is to learn where muscles attach and their form and action. Because it’s more important than knowing how it is called. That’s why I was always confused when there would be a whole anatomycal figure drawn with the muscle names written but nothing more. Bridgman’s book called “Bridgman’s complete guide to drawing from life” was the best for me on that subject. Write the attachments and actions of the muscles that are spoken about. There are videos called “aclands atlas of human anatomy”. I’ve seen one volume of that and was happy to know the attachments. Bit gross, because shows everything with a real body, fleshy and stuff. And it goes a bit to the medical anatomy, not artistic, but good nevertheless.
Keep up with the studies :thumbsup:

#108

NR43 - Thanks for the reminder :slight_smile: . I have been keeping it in mind. I have Albinus on Anatomy with me usually when I’m looking at Hogarth’s stuff. It seems to be a lot more realistic and down to earth. I havn’t actually seen any of that book you mentioned. Hopefully I can get around to working through some books eventually and getting onto new ones.

Razz - I actually have that book. Havn’t got into it at all since it seemed a bit overwhelming. I’ll try my best to work into it. I’ll even search the internet right now to see what those videos are about.

Quick and ugly :sad:, more leg originally by Hogarth.

#109

Definately havn’t been keeping up this post lately. Here’s a sketch from yesterday however.


Originally A Painting by Anthony Ryder

#110

Lovely. :slight_smile: Something I’d like to see is perhaps a few more darks added here and there to set things off in your drawings. Your approach is very methodical and lends itself well to careful accenting of areas with more darks.

Keep up the good work. :slight_smile:

#111

RebeccaK - Thanks. Yah. The lack of darks…I’m working on it. I do agree, it would make things alot better looking.

Anyways, my scanner broke a little back, here’s some recent studying shot from my digital camera :shrug: .
I realized I would really like to be able to construct characters, and I don’t know enough about the form of the skeleton. I’m going to focus on that alot for a while…and I’ll probably throw in some portrait drawings every few days.


Albinus

Coming to some conclusions on some proportions, with the help of some books I read and practice. I refered to this site alot
http://biology.clc.uc.edu/fankhauser/Labs/Anatomy_&_Physiology/A&P201/Skeletal/Skull_Bones.htm

#112

Sounds like you have a good plan
here’s hoping to see your studies so we can see your workflow a bit

#113

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