You know I just realized some of the books I have are just art books or anatomy books. I don’t really have anything that talks about figure drawing with except for Andrew Loomis and some George Bridgman.
I need to hit a life drawing class. Fortunately I know one I can just sit in.
Ahhahahahaha!!! Look what I found on my hard drive. Here’s a blast from my past…7 years ago and D&D … :eek: :argh: 
Here’s this morning… :applause:
That’s what life drawing and 9 sketchbooks can do to you. Should have been 20 sketchbooks but at least I can say I’ve improved.
Next post will be a figure study, I promise.
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sorry, I just love sharing my recorded WIPs 
Great to hear that you can sit in on a life drawing class! I think it’s just the thing. I am doing the same, just had the first class tonight. Looking forward to seeing your life drawings.
These anatomy sketches are looking really good, Sirron! And the video of the samurai was curious to watch, i wish more people could do that with their work. The loomis style figures seem to have quite short legs up to the length from top of head to crotch, which should be about half the length of the body, unless you’re going for some foreshortening, or slightly less heroic figures! Other than that, I’d say just keep going at it, only leads to good things!
Looking for the planes.
Rebeccak: Yeah, the class is at my community college where I attended/worked. And it’s only 15 minutes away! Gotta love that. Hope your class went well.
Zephyri: Thanks! I wish more people would show recordings of their work too. Can you imagine what if we saw artists like Rembrandt or Michelangelo do their paintings? I’ve learned a great deal from watching other people’s openCanvas files. But I don’t see a lot of people using that program, so I try my best to just record it some other way so everyone can see it. I hope it has at least one good thing to learn from.
I see what you mean about the shortness of the figures. Unfortunately I wasn’t going for foreshortening or less heroic characters :sad: I think the thighs are too short and the spine is a little long.
Oh, say, that last one’s looking lovely, really like the definition of the knee, they’re so damned hard to get down well. And it’s a minor point… say, maybe we should switch, I have a tendancy to draw legs too long… lol, that would even us both out!
Thanks Zephyri! A girl I was out with…:love:…really liked that drawing too.
I just saw your portfolio on ImagineFX. It made my day recognizing you and thinking that you posted on my anatomy thread
When I started this my motivation was completely sapped out of me. So I just took some time reading ImagineFX (that’s when I saw Zephyri’s page). I got some inspiration back so went back at it and just practiced getting the head at the right angle.
And just had some fun drawing a mech.
I think I’m too sketchy… need some more control.
I agree with Zephyri that the piece in post 66 is really lovely.
on the heads…
be careful to not to skew the head when drawing it under an angle. this can be avoided by drawing a cross before adding the facial features. The horizontal bar of the cross represents the browline while the vertical bar of the cross represents the center axis of the face.
I strongly recommend checking out Loomis’ book Drawing the head and hands where he explains this elaborately. you can find them as pdf’s. I think someone posted a link to them in my thread not too long ago…
Keep going your work is lovely!
I forgot that Loomis has a Heads and Hands book, thanks for reminding me! I think I have all of his books, there’s 6 right?
-Creative Illustration
-Drawing Heads and Hands
-Eye of the Painter
-Figure Drawing for all its worth
-Fun with a Pencil
-Successful Drawing
I’m going to have another go with those heads.
It’s a great book and his technique is easier to learn (imho) than others. The great thing about it is that one can practice this technique even when he has just a couple of min to spare (like I’m currently doing while being at the office, having to wait a bit while our systems run reports etc. (my office notes are often loaded with loomis heads these days, along with other scribbles, much to my bosses ennoyance :blushes:
Anyway,
have fun!
It’s been about year to a year and a half since I’ve been in a life drawing class. I forgot how 10 and 15 minute poses felt like haha
I walked in last half of the class so I didn’t get much. It was good, even saw some friends there. Always good to see my old life drawing teacher.
the top of that last mecha is looking really nice, i think maybe
slimming the legs down and putting just a bit of curve into them would help de-stiffen the pose. I don’t know whether you’d be able to see any online, but some of the newer marvel tv shows… evolution i think it was called, had some lovely drawings in the end credits that made me think about what you could get away with in terms of the curve of legs… I wish I could find the reference for you. Maybe try having a look for some marvel characters online, or get a hold of the ‘drawing comics the marvel way’ if you can, they put a lot of emphasis on the looseness and expression of even still drawings like that one. Whew, novel length post!
Hey there, just stopping by to see if you had seen this:
227 Anatomy Videos - 43 Hours
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=177&t=456011
Seems like a deal at $25 for 5 DVDs, I might get this myself for that cost…
Cheers!
I have seen those, just haven’t put the time to watch through them.
Top two I looked at Loomis, middle are from my head, bottom are caricatures of people I saw while waiting for my pizza.
Doing this made me want to start my study of Alphonse Mucha. Which would be this one.
Oh yeah, something I kind of thought was cool of Loomis to say was “Now let’s get to work in earnest”. You don’t hear anyone talking that way anymore. It has that good old fashion feel to it… Well I thought it was a nice phrase.
Gee, I hope this doesn’t count as nudity in Photobucket.
I’m kinda surprised I can get this kind of shading with a .5 mechanical pencil. I haven’t seen it really done, but what if I drew the model as a skeleton? Hmmm…
lol the skeleton is even extremely nude :Dnice perspective, although I think for the female it’s a bit overdone.
Loomis is right, it does take a lot of practice…
Didn’t have a good view at the bookstore, so I just drew some from magazines. Some good, some obviously bad 
and Loomis…
Hot off the life drawing class…
After the first one I realized I don’t really know how to draw the bones, only an approximation. I think I’ll practice on that a bit.
